No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
honcho has 1.8M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.0.0, first published in 2012.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2024.
It is built on top of backports-entry-points-selectable and colorama. It is used by 35 tracked packages, including frappe-bench, forge-work and koriander.
GitHub topics include operations and devtools.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
66
Adoption
70
Community
45
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
398 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,833,093
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
•
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,833,093
Stars
1,710
Stars per 1k downloads
0.93
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
•
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
60,860
Month daily avg
61,103
Momentum
-0.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MIT License
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
638 days ago
Total releases
24
Releases/year
1.7
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
•
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
46
Monthly downloads
1,833,093
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
54
Issue Burden
11.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
31.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
240d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
32.1K
macOS
147
Windows
62
Python Versions
3.14
31.6%
9.8K
3.11
28.5%
8.9K
3.13
17.3%
5.4K
3.12
16.6%
5.2K
3.10
5.9%
1.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
28.1K
US
2.
DE
1.5K
DE
3.
SG
617
SG
4.
NL
370
NL
5.
IN
265
IN
6.
FR
206
FR
7.
HK
188
HK
8.
CN
139
CN
9.
IE
137
IE
10.
FI
70
FI
Dependencies
2
Used By
35
- frappe-bench
- forge-work
- koriander
- framework-m-studio
- lightning-pose-app
- dokos-cli
- hyperflask
- fuzzy-couscous
- windflow
- combine
- kitchenai
- persia-cuda113
- persia-cuda102
- persia-cuda111
- omegaml
- gcp-ovpn-portal
- pimelon
- vrobbler
- vanty
- ifrappe-bench
- frappecn-bench
- criscostack-brik
- stak
- mail-agent
- saashq-wrench
- harpiya-bench
- clairview-boraq
- diagran-bench
- procenv
- threads-dlp-layorx
- sentry-nos
- nxenv-nxcli
- fakefbench
- ilmo-app
- flexlar-bench
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
March 13, 2012
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
2.0.0
Total Releases
24
Contributors
46
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh