hyprwm/hyprland vs scottbez1/smartknob
hyprwm/hyprland shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, hyprland shows healthier maintenance signals than smartknob. hyprland rates Healthy overall while smartknob rates Mixed. hyprland last saw a commit 1 month ago with 30+ active contributors, while smartknob last saw a commit 2 years ago with 8+ active contributors. hyprland is BSD-3-Clause-licensed while smartknob is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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hyprwm/hyprland →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 50% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓30+ active contributors
- ✓BSD-3-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
scottbez1/smartknob →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
non-standard license (Other); last commit was 2y ago…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 93% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| hyprland | smartknob | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 35,578 | 21,783 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 2y ago |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | Other |
| Open issues | 185 | 71 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 23% | 7% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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