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spf13/cobra vs therecipe/qt

spf13/cobra shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, cobra shows healthier maintenance signals than qt. cobra rates Healthy overall while qt rates Mixed. cobra last saw a commit 2 months ago with 51+ active contributors, while qt last saw a commit 2 years ago with 3+ active contributors. cobra is Apache-2.0-licensed while qt is LGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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spf13/cobra

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 2w ago
  • 51+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

therecipe/qt

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (LGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 2y ago…

MixedFork & modify

no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 2y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 89% of recent commits
  • LGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • 3 active contributors
  • LGPL-3.0 licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
  • Fork & modify MixedHealthy if: add a test suite
  • 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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

cobraqt
Stars43,89310,784
Last commit2mo ago2y ago
LicenseApache-2.0LGPL-3.0
Open issues363372
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage3%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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