hmcl-dev/hmcl vs yuliskov/smarttube
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, hmcl and smarttube both show mixed maintenance signals. hmcl last saw a commit 4 months ago with 15+ active contributors, while smarttube was committed to 1 week ago with 8+ active contributors. hmcl is GPL-3.0-licensed while smarttube is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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hmcl-dev/hmcl
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; test evidence incomplete…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Could not verify tests from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 41% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
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
yuliskov/smarttube
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
dependency CVE scan unavailable
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
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 85% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| hmcl | smarttube | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 9,207 | 32,681 |
| Last commit | 4mo ago | 9d ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 393 | 698 |
| Has tests | Unknown | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 28% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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