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huiyadanli/revokemsgpatcher vs microsoft/visualstudiouninstaller

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, revokemsgpatcher and visualstudiouninstaller both show mixed maintenance signals. revokemsgpatcher last saw a commit 1 month ago with 5+ active contributors, while visualstudiouninstaller last saw a commit 7 years ago with 8+ active contributors. revokemsgpatcher is GPL-3.0-licensed while visualstudiouninstaller is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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huiyadanli/revokemsgpatcher

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 94% of recent commits…

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.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 94% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 3d ago
  • 5 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

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, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

microsoft/visualstudiouninstaller

Mixed

Stale — last commit 7y ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); last commit was 7y ago…

MixedFork & modify

no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 7y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 7y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 80% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • 8 active contributors
  • Other licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms
  • Fork & modify MixedHealthy if: add a test suite
  • 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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

revokemsgpatchervisualstudiouninstaller
Stars37,5973,963
Last commit1mo ago7y ago
LicenseGPL-3.0Other
Open issues5144
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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