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crossoverjie/jcsprout vs guardianproject/haven

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, jcsprout and haven both show mixed maintenance signals. jcsprout last saw a commit 2 years ago with 7+ active contributors, while haven last saw a commit 3 years ago with 30+ active contributors. jcsprout is MIT-licensed while haven is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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crossoverjie/jcsprout

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 2y ago; top contributor handles 91% of recent commits

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
  • 7 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

guardianproject/haven

Mixed

Stale — last commit 4y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 4y ago…

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Stale — last commit 4y ago
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • 30+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 20% of recent commits)
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed 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

jcsprouthaven
Stars26,9416,788
Last commit2y ago3y ago
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Open issues45145
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage40%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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