fogleman/nes vs glanceapp/glance
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, nes and glance both show mixed maintenance signals. nes last saw a commit 1 year ago with 13+ active contributors, while glance was committed to 4 weeks ago with 12+ active contributors. nes is MIT-licensed while glance is AGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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fogleman/nes →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
last commit was 2y ago; no tests detected…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 82% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days; add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
glanceapp/glance →
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 88% of recent commits
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 4w ago
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| nes | glance | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 5,648 | 35,415 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 28d ago |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 12 | 326 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | A |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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