idea4good/guilite vs lizardbyte/sunshine
lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than guilite. sunshine rates Healthy overall while guilite rates Mixed. guilite last saw a commit 8 months ago with 6+ active contributors, while sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors. guilite is Apache-2.0-licensed while sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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idea4good/guilite →
Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
top contributor handles 92% of recent commits; no tests detected
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.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 92% of recent commits
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 7mo ago
- ✓6 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: diversify commit ownership (top <90%)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
lizardbyte/sunshine →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
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.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓18 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 27% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → 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, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| guilite | sunshine | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,739 | 36,974 |
| Last commit | 8mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 18 | 106 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 47% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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