makeplane/plane vs mattermost/focalboard
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, plane and focalboard both show healthy maintenance signals. plane was committed to 2 weeks ago with 19+ active contributors, while focalboard last saw a commit 4 months ago with 32+ active contributors. plane is AGPL-3.0-licensed while focalboard is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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makeplane/plane
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; 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
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓19 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% of recent commits)
- ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
mattermost/focalboard
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.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 3mo ago
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3mo ago
- ✓32+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% of recent commits)
- ✓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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| plane | focalboard | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 58,432 | 26,437 |
| Last commit | 20d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 1,070 | 784 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 2% | 35% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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