Why is mace included as a Cask?

[mfriedenhagen]

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 5.0.5-110-g0230735
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 0230735c1f5fe11ab61416bf5145c61066b32dbc
Last commit: 8 hours ago
Branch: main
Core tap JSON: 16 Dec 08:09 UTC
Core cask tap JSON: 16 Dec 08:09 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: ["--appdir=~/Applications"]
HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY: 22
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: /Users/USER/bin/visual
HOMEBREW_FORBID_PACKAGES_FROM_PATHS: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 11
HOMEBREW_SORBET_RUNTIME: set
Homebrew Ruby: 3.4.7 => /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.4.7/bin/ruby
CPU: 11-core 64-bit arm_lobos
Clang: 17.0.0 build 1700
Git: 2.52.0 => /opt/homebrew/bin/git
Curl: 8.7.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 26.1-arm64
CLT: 26.1.0.0.1.1761104275
Xcode: N/A
Rosetta 2: false

Output of brew doctor

Warning: Some installed casks are deprecated or disabled.
You should find replacements for the following casks:
  robo-3t
  yubico-yubikey-manager

Warning: Some installed formulae are deprecated or disabled.
You should find replacements for the following formulae:
  vaku

Description of issue

Today I ran brew update and a new Cask named mace was shown which advertises as:

❯ brew info mace
==> mace: 0.0.3-alpha
https://github.com/MACE-App/MACE
Not installed
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/HEAD/Casks/m/mace.rb
==> Names
MACE
Mac Advanced Compliance Editor
==> Description
Simplify compliance baseline creation, auditing, and management
==> Artifacts
MACE.app (App)
==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask/mace.json
==> Analytics
install: 2 (30 days), 2 (90 days), 2 (365 days)

Looking at its homepage (https://github.com/MACE-App/MACE) I see no sources, no forks, no watchers, only 12 stars and the source is only available as tar.gz in the asset section of releases.

I understand that Homebrew is a project by volunteers so please do not take this as an attack. At https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Casks#rejected-casks it says:

App is too obscure. Examples:
An app from a code repository that is not notable enough (under 30 forks, 30 watchers, 75 stars).
Electronic Identification (eID) software.

So: what was the reason behind adding this to the official Cask repository?

[daeho-ro]

Maybe this part.
https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Casks#exceptions-to-the-notability-threshold

[bevanjkay]

The cask was submitted by a Lead Maintainer, who have the discretion to add casks which do not strictly meet the thresholds for inclusion.
https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Casks#exceptions-to-the-notability-threshold

and the source is only available as tar.gz in the asset section of releases.

We are serving the dmg file that is provided as an asset on the latest release.