lewagon/setup vs rubysherpas/paranoia
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, setup and paranoia both show mixed maintenance signals. setup last saw a commit 2 months ago with 13+ active contributors, while paranoia last saw a commit 7 months ago with 36+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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lewagon/setup →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear; no tests detected
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 3w ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 46% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
rubysherpas/paranoia →
Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
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.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓Last commit 6mo ago
- ✓36+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 18% of recent commits)
- ✓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
| setup | paranoia | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 19,599 | 2,918 |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 7mo ago |
| License | — | Other |
| Open issues | 1 | 103 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 50% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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