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sharkdp/bat vs witnessmenow/esp32-cheap-yellow-display

sharkdp/bat shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, bat shows healthier maintenance signals than esp32-cheap-yellow-display. bat rates Healthy overall while esp32-cheap-yellow-display rates Mixed. bat was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors, while esp32-cheap-yellow-display last saw a commit 4 months ago with 35+ active contributors. bat is Apache-2.0-licensed while esp32-cheap-yellow-display is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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sharkdp/bat

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

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 "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; 1 cyclic import chain detected

  • 1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 18 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 28% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Token-Permissions" 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

witnessmenow/esp32-cheap-yellow-display

Mixed

Evidence incomplete — review before adopting

MixedDependency

test evidence incomplete; 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

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Could not verify tests from the available repository evidence
  • Last commit 3d ago
  • 35+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 41% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

batesp32-cheap-yellow-display
Stars60,3803,909
Last commit12d ago4mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Open issues42678
Has testsUnknown
Has CI
Test coverage100%0%
Dependency CVEs0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 lowNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles1
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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