rust-lang/mdbook vs slatedocs/slate
rust-lang/mdbook shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, mdbook shows healthier maintenance signals than slate. mdbook rates Healthy overall while slate rates Mixed. mdbook was committed to 2 weeks ago with 19+ active contributors, while slate last saw a commit 7 months ago with 1+ active contributor. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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rust-lang/mdbook
Healthy across all four use cases
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.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓19 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 36% of recent commits)
- ✓MPL-2.0 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
slatedocs/slate
Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible); no tests detected in the complete Git tree…
no tests detected in the complete Git tree; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 7mo ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 7mo ago
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: onboard a second core maintainer; add a test suite
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days; 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 OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| mdbook | slate | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 22,104 | 36,037 |
| Last commit | 19d ago | 7mo ago |
| License | MPL-2.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 668 | 50 |
| Has tests | ✓ | No |
| Has CI | ✓ | No |
| Test coverage | 100% | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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