caldis/mos vs theboredteam/boring.notch
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, mos and boring.notch both show mixed maintenance signals. mos last saw a commit 1 month ago with 1+ active contributor, while boring.notch last saw a commit 1 month ago with 8+ active contributors. mos is Other-licensed while boring.notch is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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caldis/mos →
Solo project — review before adopting
non-standard license (Other); single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)
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.
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
theboredteam/boring.notch →
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
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.
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 81% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| mos | boring.notch | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 20,047 | 9,002 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | Other | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 360 | 272 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 33% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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