ogham/exa vs spacedriveapp/spacedrive
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, exa and spacedrive both show mixed maintenance signals. exa last saw a commit 1 year ago with 27+ active contributors, while spacedrive last saw a commit 2 months ago with 2+ active contributors. exa is MIT-licensed while spacedrive is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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ogham/exa →
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
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓27+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 41% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT 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
spacedriveapp/spacedrive →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (Other); no tests detected
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
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 68% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 3w ago
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| exa | spacedrive | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 24,441 | 37,965 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 2mo ago |
| License | MIT | Other |
| Open issues | 213 | 32 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 7% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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