rathole-org/rathole vs rwf2/rocket
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, rathole and rocket both show mixed maintenance signals. rathole was committed to 2 weeks ago with 24+ active contributors, while rocket last saw a commit 8 months ago with 26+ active contributors. rocket has no known critical CVEs, while rathole has 1.
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rathole-org/rathole
High-severity dependency advisories — review before adopting
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
1 high-severity CVE in dependencies; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠1 high-severity advisory on direct dependencies
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 68% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: resolve the high-severity advisory; 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
rwf2/rocket
Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 65% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 4mo ago
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| rathole | rocket | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 14,113 | 25,734 |
| Last commit | 20d ago | 8mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 95 | 80 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 89% | 82% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 1 high · 5 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 8 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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