jboss-javassist/javassist vs tencent/tinker
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, javassist and tinker both show mixed maintenance signals. javassist was committed to 6 days ago with 17+ active contributors, while tinker last saw a commit 2 months ago with 4+ active contributors. Both use the Other license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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jboss-javassist/javassist →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (Other)
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 69% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 5d ago
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
tencent/tinker →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (Other); no CI workflows 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.
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 52% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓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
| javassist | tinker | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 4,232 | 17,628 |
| Last commit | 6d ago | 2mo ago |
| License | Other | Other |
| Open issues | 254 | 556 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 100% | 15% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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