freeok/so-novel vs google/exoplayer
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, so-novel and exoplayer both show mixed maintenance signals. so-novel last saw a commit 1 month ago with 3+ active contributors, while exoplayer last saw a commit 8 months ago with 14+ active contributors. so-novel is AGPL-3.0-licensed while exoplayer is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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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
google/exoplayer
Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
no CI workflows detected; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 9mo ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 9mo ago
- ✓14 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 27% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •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
| so-novel | exoplayer | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 8,037 | 21,937 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 8mo ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 24 | 627 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | No |
| Test coverage | 23% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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