lltcggie/waifu2x-caffe vs shadps4-emu/shadps4
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, waifu2x-caffe and shadps4 both show mixed maintenance signals. waifu2x-caffe last saw a commit 3 months ago with 11+ active contributors, while shadps4 last saw a commit 1 month ago with 19+ active contributors. waifu2x-caffe is MIT-licensed while shadps4 is GPL-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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lltcggie/waifu2x-caffe →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
no tests detected; 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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 68% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 6w ago
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
shadps4-emu/shadps4 →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-2.0) — review compatibility; no tests 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.
- ⚠GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓19 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 18% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| waifu2x-caffe | shadps4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 8,226 | 31,040 |
| Last commit | 3mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | GPL-2.0 |
| Open issues | 92 | 139 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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