dromara/sa-token vs freeok/so-novel
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, sa-token and so-novel both show mixed maintenance signals. sa-token was committed to 1 week ago with 1+ active contributor, while so-novel last saw a commit 1 month ago with 3+ active contributors. sa-token is Apache-2.0-licensed while so-novel is AGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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dromara/sa-token
Solo project — review before adopting
single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible); 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…
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: onboard a second core maintainer
- •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
freeok/so-novel
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 98% of recent commits…
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
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 98% of recent commits
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 6w ago
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓AGPL-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 OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| sa-token | so-novel | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 19,037 | 8,037 |
| Last commit | 9d ago | 1mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 107 | 24 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | No | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 61% | 23% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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