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jasontaylordev/northwindtraders vs shadowsocks/shadowsocks-windows

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, northwindtraders and shadowsocks-windows both show mixed maintenance signals. northwindtraders last saw a commit 3 years ago with 12+ active contributors, while shadowsocks-windows last saw a commit 1 year ago with 11+ active contributors. northwindtraders is MIT-licensed while shadowsocks-windows is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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jasontaylordev/northwindtraders

Mixed

Stale — last commit 3y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 3y ago; CI evidence incomplete…

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 3y ago; CI evidence incomplete…

  • Stale — last commit 3y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 73% of recent commits
  • 12 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

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

shadowsocks/shadowsocks-windows

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 2y ago…

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 1/10…

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (1/10)
  • 11 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 44% of recent commits)
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

northwindtradersshadowsocks-windows
Stars5,02059,569
Last commit3y ago1y ago
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Open issues0203
Has tests
Has CIUnknown
Test coverage31%9%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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