linuxbrew/brew vs mame/quine-relay
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, brew and quine-relay both show mixed maintenance signals. brew last saw a commit 7 years ago with 7+ active contributors, while quine-relay last saw a commit 8 months ago with 10+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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linuxbrew/brew →
Stale — last commit 7y ago
last commit was 7y ago; no CI workflows detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 7y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 7y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓7 active contributors
- ✓BSD-2-Clause licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
mame/quine-relay →
Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
no license — legally unclear
no license — can't legally use code
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 7mo ago
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ✓Last commit 7mo ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| brew | quine-relay | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 2,654 | 14,476 |
| Last commit | 7y ago | 8mo ago |
| License | BSD-2-Clause | — |
| Open issues | 0 | 17 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 1% | 3% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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