Is It Dead Yet? dependency vitals

Disclaimer and your data

Two things in one page: what a verdict here is worth, and exactly what we keep about the people who use the site.

Disclaimer

Verdicts are computed, and can be wrong

Every verdict is derived from public signals — registry metadata, the repository's commits, issues, releases and README, and the project's own lifecycle pages — by rules that are described on the front page. Nobody at the project is asked. A maintainer on holiday looks like a project coasting; a finished library looks like an abandoned one until you read why it stopped changing.

Treat a verdict as a reason to look, not as a conclusion. It is not security advice, not legal advice, and not a statement about the people who maintain a package. The supply-chain history on a package page is collected from public incident reports and vendor write-ups; it records what was published, not a judgement of the project, and a package with no incidents listed is not thereby safe.

The site is offered as it is, without warranty of any kind. If a verdict is wrong about a package you know, write to [email protected] and it will be corrected.

Reading the site

Without an account, we keep nothing about you

With an account

What we store, and why

You can stop watching any package, delete any project, or delete the whole account from your dashboard. Deleting the account removes the address, sessions, projects, watches, channels and alert history in one transaction. It is not recoverable.

Who else sees it

Three services, each for one thing

The crawler talks to npm, PyPI, crates.io, pkg.go.dev, GitHub and the lifecycle sources on its own behalf. No user data goes with those requests. Nothing is sold, shared for advertising, or used to train anything.

Where and how long

Hosting and retention

The site and its database run on a server hosted by OVH in Beauharnois, Canada, with an encrypted nightly backup kept in a different region. Canada holds a European Union adequacy decision, so data of readers in the EU is handled under that.

Questions

Anything here you want explained, exported or removed: [email protected].