classicoldsong/apollo vs deskflow/deskflow
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, apollo and deskflow both show mixed maintenance signals. apollo last saw a commit 3 months ago with 21+ active contributors, while deskflow was committed to 1 week ago with 21+ active contributors. apollo is GPL-3.0-licensed while deskflow is GPL-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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classicoldsong/apollo
Slowing — last commit 3mo ago
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no CI workflows detected
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; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 3mo ago
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3mo ago
- ✓21+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 25% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
deskflow/deskflow
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-2.0) — 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
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 57% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓21+ active contributors
- ✓GPL-2.0 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| apollo | deskflow | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 10,609 | 28,602 |
| Last commit | 3mo ago | 12d ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | GPL-2.0 |
| Open issues | 322 | 200 |
| Has tests | ✓ | No |
| Has CI | No | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 15% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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