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lizardbyte/sunshine vs redpanda-data/redpanda

lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than redpanda. sunshine rates Healthy overall while redpanda rates Mixed. sunshine last saw a commit 1 month ago with 18+ active contributors, while redpanda last saw a commit 1 month ago with 14+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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lizardbyte/sunshine

Healthy

Healthy across the board

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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 ConcernsMixed 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

redpanda-data/redpanda

Mixed

Missing license — unclear to depend on

ConcernsDependency

no license — legally unclear

ConcernsFork & modify

no license — can't legally use code

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

ConcernsDeploy as-is

no license — can't legally use code

  • No license — legally unclear to depend on
  • Last commit today
  • 14 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 22% of recent commits)
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
  • Fork & modify ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file
  • Deploy as-is ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

sunshineredpanda
Stars36,97412,064
Last commit1mo ago1mo ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Open issues106684
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage47%4%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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