facebookexperimental/recoil vs fishjar/kiss-translator
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, recoil and kiss-translator both show mixed maintenance signals. recoil last saw a commit 1 year ago with 34+ active contributors, while kiss-translator was committed to 2 weeks ago with 17+ active contributors. recoil is MIT-licensed while kiss-translator is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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facebookexperimental/recoil
Stale — last commit 2y ago
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ✓34+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
fishjar/kiss-translator
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.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; 2 cyclic import chains detected
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 54% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓17 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)
- •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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| recoil | kiss-translator | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 19,437 | 12,243 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 18d ago |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 320 | 178 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 34% | 37% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | A |
| Cycles | — | 2 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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