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lizardbyte/sunshine vs tencent/hippy

lizardbyte/sunshine shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, sunshine shows healthier maintenance signals than hippy. sunshine rates Healthy overall while hippy rates Mixed. sunshine was committed to 1 week ago with 18+ active contributors, while hippy last saw a commit 4 months ago with 7+ active contributors. sunshine is GPL-3.0-licensed while hippy is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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lizardbyte/sunshine

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility

HealthyFork & modify

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

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 18 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% 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)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

tencent/hippy

Mixed

Evidence incomplete — review before adopting

MixedDependency

test evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable

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

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 65% of recent commits
  • Could not verify tests from the available repository evidence
  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 7 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

sunshinehippy
Stars40,8148,518
Last commit13d ago4mo ago
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Open issues1439
Has testsUnknown
Has CI
Test coverage28%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles0
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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