everywall/ladder vs unknwon/the-way-to-go_zh_cn
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, ladder and the-way-to-go_zh_cn both show mixed maintenance signals. ladder was committed to 1 week ago with 13+ active contributors, while the-way-to-go_zh_cn last saw a commit 2 years ago with 69+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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everywall/ladder
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 67% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓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
unknwon/the-way-to-go_zh_cn
Stale — last commit 2y ago
last commit was 2y ago; no CI workflows detected…
no CI workflows detected; last commit was 2y ago…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (2/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓69+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 16% of recent commits)
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days; 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| ladder | the-way-to-go_zh_cn | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 8,930 | 35,029 |
| Last commit | 11d ago | 2y ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 43 | 46 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | No |
| Test coverage | 44% | 2% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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