brettwooldridge/hikaricp vs pqpo/smartcropper
brettwooldridge/hikaricp shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, hikaricp shows healthier maintenance signals than smartcropper. hikaricp rates Healthy overall while smartcropper rates Mixed. hikaricp last saw a commit 7 months ago with 18+ active contributors, while smartcropper last saw a commit 10 months ago with 11+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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brettwooldridge/hikaricp →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
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.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 81% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 6mo ago
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
pqpo/smartcropper →
Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
no license — legally unclear; no tests detected…
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 9mo ago…
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 63% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 9mo ago
- ✓11 active contributors
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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| hikaricp | smartcropper | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 21,109 | 4,125 |
| Last commit | 7mo ago | 10mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | — |
| Open issues | 530 | 38 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 100% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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