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huihut/interview vs sigil-ebook/sigil

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, interview and sigil both show mixed maintenance signals. interview last saw a commit 10 months ago with 20+ active contributors, while sigil last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors. interview is Other-licensed while sigil is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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huihut/interview

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 9mo ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); 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 9mo ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 9mo ago
  • 20 active contributors
  • Other licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

sigil-ebook/sigil

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility

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.

  • Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 76% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 4 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

interviewsigil
Stars37,7896,776
Last commit10mo ago1mo ago
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Open issues24
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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