openzipkin/zipkin vs yuliskov/smarttube
openzipkin/zipkin shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, zipkin shows healthier maintenance signals than smarttube. zipkin rates Healthy overall while smarttube rates Mixed. zipkin last saw a commit 2 months ago with 11+ active contributors, while smarttube last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors. zipkin is Apache-2.0-licensed while smarttube is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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openzipkin/zipkin →
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 4w ago
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 42% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
yuliskov/smarttube →
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
top contributor handles 97% of recent commits; 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 — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: diversify commit ownership (top <90%)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| zipkin | smarttube | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 17,434 | 30,059 |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 168 | 713 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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