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schollz/croc vs shopspring/decimal

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, croc and decimal both show mixed maintenance signals. croc was committed to 1 week ago with 5+ active contributors, while decimal was committed to 3 weeks ago with 50+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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schollz/croc

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 81% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 5 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 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

shopspring/decimal

Mixed

OpenSSF Scorecard says this is unmaintained

MixedDependency

dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10…

  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (1/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 3w ago
  • 50+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 34% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 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

crocdecimal
Stars40,2747,471
Last commit7d ago25d ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues2154
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage68%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeAC
Cycles00
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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