juliusbrussee/caveman vs ponzu-cms/ponzu
juliusbrussee/caveman shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, caveman shows healthier maintenance signals than ponzu. caveman rates Healthy overall while ponzu rates Mixed. caveman was committed to 1 week ago with 8+ active contributors, while ponzu last saw a commit 10 months ago with 15+ active contributors. caveman is MIT-licensed while ponzu is BSD-3-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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juliusbrussee/caveman
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 74% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓MIT 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
ponzu-cms/ponzu
Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
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
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 61% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 6mo ago
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓BSD-3-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| caveman | ponzu | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 103,084 | 5,761 |
| Last commit | 13d ago | 10mo ago |
| License | MIT | BSD-3-Clause |
| Open issues | 95 | 35 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 23% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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