amlcurran/showcaseview vs yuliskov/smarttube
yuliskov/smarttube shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, smarttube shows stronger maintenance signals than showcaseview. smarttube rates Mixed overall while showcaseview rates Concerns. showcaseview last saw a commit 8 years ago with 9+ active contributors, while smarttube last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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amlcurran/showcaseview →
Stale and unlicensed — last commit 8y ago
no license — legally unclear; last commit was 8y ago…
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 8y ago…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 8y ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
yuliskov/smarttube →
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
top contributor handles 97% of recent commits; no tests detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: diversify commit ownership (top <90%)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| showcaseview | smarttube | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 5,556 | 30,059 |
| Last commit | 8y ago | 1mo ago |
| License | — | MIT |
| Open issues | 95 | 713 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Concerns signals | Mixed signals |
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