cxasm/notepad-- vs dragonflydb/dragonfly
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, notepad-- and dragonfly both show mixed maintenance signals. notepad-- was committed to 4 weeks ago with 4+ active contributors, while dragonfly was committed to 1 week ago with 13+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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cxasm/notepad--
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
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…
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 89% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓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 OpenSSF Scorecard
dragonflydb/dragonfly
Open vulnerabilities flagged by OpenSSF Scorecard
license evidence incomplete
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete
- ⚠Scorecard: known vulnerabilities detected (scored 0/10 by OpenSSF)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
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
| notepad-- | dragonfly | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 10,227 | 31,436 |
| Last commit | 28d ago | 10d ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 291 | 298 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | No | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 22% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | A |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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