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pickhardt/betty vs spree/spree

spree/spree shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, spree shows healthier maintenance signals than betty. spree rates Healthy overall while betty rates Concerns. betty last saw a commit 5 years ago with 19+ active contributors, while spree last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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pickhardt/betty

Concerns

Stale and unlicensed — last commit 5y ago

ConcernsDependency

no license — legally unclear; last commit was 5y ago

ConcernsFork & modify

no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 5y ago

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

ConcernsDeploy as-is

no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 5y ago

  • Stale — last commit 5y ago
  • No license — legally unclear to depend on
  • 19 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 25% of recent commits)
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
  • Fork & modify ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file
  • Deploy as-is ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

spree/spree

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 95% of recent commits
  • Last commit today
  • 4 active contributors
  • BSD-3-Clause licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

bettyspree
Stars2,60715,408
Last commit5y ago1mo ago
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Open issues49107
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage43%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineConcerns signalsHealthy signals

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