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quantopian/zipline vs sherlock-project/sherlock

sherlock-project/sherlock shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, sherlock shows healthier maintenance signals than zipline. sherlock rates Healthy overall while zipline rates Mixed. zipline last saw a commit 2 years ago with 12+ active contributors, while sherlock was committed to 1 day ago with 24+ active contributors. zipline is Apache-2.0-licensed while sherlock is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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quantopian/zipline

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

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.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 55% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • 12 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

sherlock-project/sherlock

Healthy

Healthy across the board

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.

  • Last commit today
  • 24+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

ziplinesherlock
Stars19,76585,525
Last commit2y ago1d ago
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Open issues370299
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage82%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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