pythops/impala vs spacedriveapp/spacedrive
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, impala and spacedrive both show mixed maintenance signals. impala last saw a commit 5 months ago with 15+ active contributors, while spacedrive last saw a commit 4 months ago with 2+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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pythops/impala
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; test evidence incomplete…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 3w ago
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
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
spacedriveapp/spacedrive
Mixed signals — read the receipts
test evidence incomplete; license evidence incomplete…
test evidence incomplete; license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 68% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 3w ago
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| impala | spacedrive | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 2,618 | 37,965 |
| Last commit | 5mo ago | 4mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 14 | 32 |
| Has tests | Unknown | Unknown |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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