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huggingface/transformers vs microsoft/swin-transformer

huggingface/transformers shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, transformers shows healthier maintenance signals than swin-transformer. transformers rates Healthy overall while swin-transformer rates Mixed. transformers was committed to today with 53+ active contributors, while swin-transformer last saw a commit 1 year ago with 14+ active contributors. transformers is Apache-2.0-licensed while swin-transformer is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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huggingface/transformers

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Last commit today
  • 53+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 7% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

microsoft/swin-transformer

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 2y ago; no tests detected…

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • 14 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 40% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days; add a test suite
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy 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

transformersswin-transformer
Stars161,97115,902
Last committoday1y ago
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Open issues2,460204
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage5%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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