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elvirbrk/notehighlight2016 vs shadowsocks/shadowsocks-windows

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, notehighlight2016 and shadowsocks-windows both show mixed maintenance signals. notehighlight2016 last saw a commit 1 year ago with 4+ active contributors, while shadowsocks-windows last saw a commit 1 year ago with 11+ active contributors. notehighlight2016 is GPL-2.0-licensed while shadowsocks-windows is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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elvirbrk/notehighlight2016

Mixed

Stale — last commit 1y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-2.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 1y 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.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 1y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 1y ago
  • Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
  • GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 4 active contributors
  • GPL-2.0 licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

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

shadowsocks/shadowsocks-windows

Mixed

Stale — last commit 1y ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); last commit was 1y 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.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 1y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 1y ago
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 11 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 44% of recent commits)
  • Other licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

notehighlight2016shadowsocks-windows
Stars3,93159,548
Last commit1y ago1y ago
LicenseGPL-2.0Other
Open issues97200
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage9%12%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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