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classicoldsong/apollo vs lizardbyte/sunshine

lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than apollo. sunshine rates Healthy overall while apollo rates Mixed. apollo last saw a commit 3 months ago with 21+ active contributors, while sunshine was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors. Both use the GPL-3.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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classicoldsong/apollo

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 3mo ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no CI workflows detected

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

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

lizardbyte/sunshine

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 18 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% of recent commits)
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

apollosunshine
Stars10,60940,814
Last commit3mo ago13d ago
LicenseGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Open issues322143
Has tests
Has CINo
Test coverage15%28%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeAA
Cycles00
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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