nxtrace/ntrace-core vs spf13/cobra
spf13/cobra shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, cobra shows healthier maintenance signals than ntrace-core. cobra rates Healthy overall while ntrace-core rates Mixed. ntrace-core last saw a commit 1 month ago with 2+ active contributors, while cobra last saw a commit 2 months ago with 51+ active contributors. ntrace-core is GPL-3.0-licensed while cobra is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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nxtrace/ntrace-core →
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 97% of recent commits
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.
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → 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
spf13/cobra →
Healthy across the board
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.
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓51+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| ntrace-core | cobra | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,788 | 43,893 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 0 | 363 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 1% | 3% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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