beyonddimension/steamtools vs jasontaylordev/northwindtraders
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, steamtools and northwindtraders both show mixed maintenance signals. steamtools was committed to 2 weeks ago with 8+ active contributors, while northwindtraders last saw a commit 3 years ago with 12+ active contributors. steamtools is GPL-3.0-licensed while northwindtraders is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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beyonddimension/steamtools
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected in the complete Git tree…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 6d ago
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 48% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
jasontaylordev/northwindtraders
Stale — last commit 3y ago
last commit was 3y ago; CI evidence incomplete…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 3y ago; CI evidence incomplete…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 73% of recent commits
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| steamtools | northwindtraders | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 26,754 | 5,020 |
| Last commit | 16d ago | 3y ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 1,161 | 0 |
| Has tests | No | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | Unknown |
| Test coverage | 0% | 31% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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