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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-17 00:50 UTC

VendaTech / chef-cookbook-ssl

Deploy a Chef-managed Certificate Authority

RubyNo license detected★ 30 stars⑂ 17 forkssince Jul 2012View on GitHub ↗
KindLibraryCommand-line toolhow this is determined

VendaTech/chef-cookbook-ssl holds a health index of 16 out of 100, placing it in the Critical band. It scores highest on Sustainability & Governance (43/100) and lowest on Vitality (13/100). It was last updated 1336 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

16
overall / 100
Critical

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

16
Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met
Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps
Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable
Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended
Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas
At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution
Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 33 is calibrated to 27 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

VendaTechOrganization
0 followers10 public repossince Jul 2012

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publish
RubyGemschef-ssl-client1.1.0-54662 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

13Critical · 21% of overall

Development activity

1Critical
How it's scored
0/36Push recency — last push 1,336 days ago
0/36Commit cadence — 0/52 weeks with commits
0/18Commit volume — 0 commits in the last year
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
commits_last_year0
human_commit_share1
days_since_last_push1,336
active_weeks_last_year0

Release discipline

32At Risk
How it's scored
16.2/27Ships releases — 1 version tags (no GitHub releases)
0/36Release recency — latest release 4,662 days ago
12.6/27Release cadence — cadence unknown (single release)
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count1
latest_release_tagv1.1.0
releases_from_tagsyes
days_since_latest_release4,662
mean_days_between_releases—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

38Weak · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

38Weak
How it's scored
23.7/60Stars — 30 stars
10/25Forks — 17 forks
3.9/15Watchers — 6 watchers
Inputs used
forks17
stars30
watchers6
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history

Community health

25At Risk
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
0/22.5License — no license file detected
0/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseno
readme_badges0
has_contributingno
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_services—
has_pull_request_templateno

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

56Moderate
How it's scored
45/80Total downloads — 21,599 downloads all-time across rubygems
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packageschef-ssl-client
dependents—
ecosystemsrubygems
total_downloads21,599
monthly_downloads—
unverified_packages_excluded—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

43Weak · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

26At Risk
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
4.7/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 79% of commits
6.8/13.5Contributor breadth — 5 contributors
6/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled5
top_contributor_share0.79

Issue & PR responsiveness

35Weak
How it's scored
4.2/42Issue resolution — 10% of issues closed
23.1/30PR acceptance — 10/13 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
3/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 7/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
Inputs used
merged_prs10
open_issues9
closed_issues1
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d0
prs_decided_30d0
issue_closed_ratio0.1
closed_unmerged_prs3
first_time_authors_30d0
first_time_prs_merged_30d0
first_time_prs_decided_30d0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

50Moderate
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20Verified domain
0/25Owner reach — 0 followers of VendaTech
19.6/25Track record — 10 public repos, account ~14 yr old
Inputs used
followers0
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedno
owner_loginVendaTech
public_repos10
account_age_days5,185

Package maintenance

69Good
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on rubygems
4/35Publish recency — latest publish 4,662 days ago
20/20Version history — 5 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packageschef-ssl-client
ecosystemsrubygems
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish4,662

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

40Weak · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

24At Risk
How it's scored
0/24CI workflows
24/24Tests present
0/16Linter config
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
0/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 0 out of 7 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
has_cino
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configno
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

65Good
How it's scored
30/30README
0/25Documentation directory
15/15Documentation / homepage site — https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/chef-ssl-client/1.1.0
10/10Repository description
0/10Topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topics—
has_wikiyes
homepage—
docs_sitehttps://www.rubydoc.info/gems/chef-ssl-client/1.1.0
has_readmeyes
has_docs_dirno
has_descriptionyes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

26At Risk · 16% of overall

Security posture

15Critical
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5Branch-Protection — branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
0/2.5CI-Tests — 0 out of 7 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
1.5/7.5Code-Review — Found 7/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
1.5/2.5Contributors — project has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6
0/10Dangerous-Workflow — no data
0/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
0/2.5License — license file not detected
0/7.5Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
0/5Packaging — no data
0/5Pinned-Dependencies — no data
0/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0/5Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5Token-Permissions — no data
0/7.5Vulnerabilities — 15 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated13
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive5
scorecard_aggregate1.5
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Dangerous-Workflow, Packaging, Pinned-Dependencies, Signed-Releases, Token-Permissions. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

69Good
How it's scored
17.1/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — 1 affected: rake 10.0.3 (moderate 6.4)
0/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
34.5/40No advisories left outstanding — 1 advisory-carrying package(s) unaddressed past 90 days; oldest published 2,392 days ago
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories16
affected_packages8
assessed_packages62
unassessed_packages10
affected_by_severitycritical 1, high 6, moderate 1
direct_affected_packages1
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 62 resolved dependencies against OSV. 10 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list. This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so the repository dependency graph was assessed instead. That graph mixes development and test pins with shipped dependencies, so only the declared runtime dependencies are scored; transitive findings are reported as context and excluded from the score. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

42Weak · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

15Critical
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
14.8/40Legible commit history — 18 of 65 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.277
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

36Weak
How it's scored
0/18One-command bootstrap
22/22Automated tests
0/11Lint / format config
0/11Static type checking
10/10Reproducible environment — lockfile
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 65
0/8Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — no data
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilesGemfile.lock
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageno
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configno
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies. Remaining weights renormalized.

Code legibility for models

55Moderate
How it's scored
0/45Type-checkable code — Ruby without a type-check config
55/55Manageable file sizes — 0/38 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageRuby
largest_source_bytes12,937
source_files_sampled38
oversized_source_files0

Machine-readable interfaces

100Exceptional
How it's scored
0/40API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software
0/20MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40Runnable examples — examples, recipes
Inputs used
example_dirsexamples, recipes
has_mcp_signalno
api_schema_files—
interfaces_expected_of—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

Key facts

30GitHub stars
5contributors
0commits, last 12 months
1,336days since last push
1releases
1bus factor
9open issues
RubyGemspackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

  • Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 17 ⇿
0Stars
17Forks
1Releases

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

0481216201732012-082018-012023-06
Major 0Minor 1Patch 0

Each point covers 10 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 1.5 / 10
1.5aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-09-17 00:50 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
0Branch-Protectionbranch protection not enabled on development/release branches
0CI-Tests0 out of 7 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
2Code-ReviewFound 7/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 2
6Contributorsproject has 2 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 6
n/aDangerous-Workflowno workflows found
0Dependency-Update-Toolno update tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
0Licenselicense file not detected
0Maintained0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
n/aPinned-Dependenciesno dependencies found
0SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0Security-Policysecurity policy file not detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
n/aToken-PermissionsNo tokens found
0Vulnerabilities15 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 7
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
RubyGemschef10.14.2Gemfile
RubyGemsrake—Gemfile
RubyGemsrspec—Gemfile
RubyGemsflexmock—Gemfile
RubyGemsrspec-extra-formatters—Gemfile
RubyGemseassl2—Gemfile
RubyGemsgpgme—Gemfile
All dependencies 72

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 15 direct and 57 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
RubyGemschef—direct
RubyGemschef10.14.2direct
RubyGemschef11.4.0direct
RubyGemseassl2—direct
RubyGemseassl22.0.1direct
RubyGemsflexmock—direct
RubyGemsflexmock0.9.0direct
RubyGemsflexmock1.3.1direct
RubyGemsgpgme2.0.2direct
RubyGemsrake—direct
RubyGemsrake10.0.3direct
RubyGemsrspec—direct
RubyGemsrspec2.10.0direct
RubyGemsrspec2.13.0direct
RubyGemsrspec-extra-formatters1.0.0direct
RubyGemsactivesupport—indirect
RubyGemsactivesupport4.0.2indirect
RubyGemsatomic1.1.14indirect
RubyGemsbunny0.7.9indirect
RubyGemscommander—indirect
RubyGemscommander4.1.5indirect
RubyGemsdiff-lcs1.1.3indirect
RubyGemsdiff-lcs1.2.1indirect
RubyGemserubis2.7.0indirect
RubyGemsfaraday0.8.7indirect
RubyGemshighline—indirect
RubyGemshighline1.6.15indirect
RubyGemshighline1.6.20indirect
RubyGemsi18n0.6.9indirect
RubyGemsipaddress0.8.0indirect
RubyGemsjson1.6.1indirect
RubyGemsjson1.7.7indirect
RubyGemsmime-types1.21indirect
RubyGemsmime-types1.25.1indirect
RubyGemsminitest4.7.5indirect
RubyGemsmixlib-authentication1.3.0indirect
RubyGemsmixlib-cli1.3.0indirect
RubyGemsmixlib-config1.1.2indirect
RubyGemsmixlib-config2.0.0indirect
RubyGemsmixlib-log1.4.1indirect
RubyGemsmixlib-log1.6.0indirect
RubyGemsmixlib-shellout1.1.0indirect
RubyGemsmixlib-shellout1.2.0indirect
RubyGemsmoneta0.7.14indirect
RubyGemsmulti_json—indirect
RubyGemsmulti_json1.3.7indirect
RubyGemsmultipart-post1.2.0indirect
RubyGemsnet-ssh2.2.2indirect
RubyGemsnet-ssh2.7.0indirect
RubyGemsnet-ssh-gateway1.1.0indirect
RubyGemsnet-ssh-gateway1.2.0indirect
RubyGemsnet-ssh-multi1.1indirect
RubyGemsohai6.16.0indirect
RubyGemsohai6.20.0indirect
RubyGemspolyglot0.3.3indirect
RubyGemsrest-client1.6.7indirect
RubyGemsrspec-core2.10.1indirect
RubyGemsrspec-core2.13.0indirect
RubyGemsrspec-expectations2.10.0indirect
RubyGemsrspec-expectations2.13.0indirect
RubyGemsrspec-mocks2.10.1indirect
RubyGemsrspec-mocks2.13.0indirect
RubyGemssimplecov—indirect
RubyGemssimplecov0.7.1indirect
RubyGemssimplecov-html0.7.1indirect
RubyGemsspice1.0.4indirect
RubyGemssystemu2.5.2indirect
RubyGemsthread_safe0.1.3indirect
RubyGemstreetop1.4.12indirect
RubyGemstzinfo0.3.38indirect
RubyGemsuuidtools2.1.3indirect
RubyGemsyajl-ruby1.1.0indirect
Dependency advisories 8

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 62 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 8 carry known advisories, of which 1 are direct. 10 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.

PackageVersionRelationSeverityAdvisoriesFixed in
rest-client1.6.7indirectcritical21.8.0
activesupport4.0.2indirecthigh68.1.2.1
i18n0.6.9indirecthigh10.8.0
json1.6.1indirecthigh22.3.0
json1.7.7indirecthigh12.3.0
tzinfo0.3.38indirecthigh11.2.10
yajl-ruby1.1.0indirecthigh21.4.3
rake10.0.3directmoderate112.3.3

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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