mastodon/mastodon vs paper-trail-gem/paper_trail
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, mastodon and paper_trail both show healthy maintenance signals. mastodon was committed to 1 week ago with 11+ active contributors, while paper_trail last saw a commit 4 months ago with 29+ active contributors. mastodon is AGPL-3.0-licensed while paper_trail is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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mastodon/mastodon
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.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% 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
paper-trail-gem/paper_trail
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
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓29+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 48% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| mastodon | paper_trail | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 50,273 | 6,998 |
| Last commit | 10d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 4,524 | 15 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 46% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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