juanfont/headscale vs kubernetes/kubernetes
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, headscale and kubernetes both show healthy maintenance signals. headscale was committed to 2 weeks ago with 12+ active contributors, while kubernetes was committed to 4 days ago with 23+ active contributors. headscale is BSD-3-Clause-licensed while kubernetes is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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juanfont/headscale
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 78% of recent commits
- ⚠9 moderate-severity advisories on direct dependencies
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓BSD-3-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
kubernetes/kubernetes
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 54% of recent commits
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓23+ active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| headscale | kubernetes | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 43,394 | 127,382 |
| Last commit | 18d ago | 4d ago |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 149 | 3,024 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 85% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 9 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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