kkroening/ffmpeg-python vs pallets/flask
pallets/flask shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, flask shows healthier maintenance signals than ffmpeg-python. flask rates Healthy overall while ffmpeg-python rates Mixed. ffmpeg-python last saw a commit 1 year ago with 21+ active contributors, while flask was committed to 2 weeks ago with 10+ active contributors. ffmpeg-python is Apache-2.0-licensed while flask is BSD-3-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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kkroening/ffmpeg-python →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 61% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓21+ active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days; bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
pallets/flask →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 90% of recent commits
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓10 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| ffmpeg-python | flask | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 10,996 | 71,755 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 17d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Open issues | 525 | 6 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 21% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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