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lwouis/alt-tab-macos vs relatedcode/progresshud

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, alt-tab-macos and progresshud both show mixed maintenance signals. alt-tab-macos last saw a commit 1 month ago with 2+ active contributors, while progresshud last saw a commit 5 months ago with 7+ active contributors. alt-tab-macos is GPL-3.0-licensed while progresshud is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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lwouis/alt-tab-macos

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected

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.

  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 88% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 2 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

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

relatedcode/progresshud

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 3mo ago

MixedDependency

top contributor handles 91% of recent commits; no tests detected…

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.

  • Slowing — last commit 3mo ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 3mo ago
  • 7 active contributors
  • MIT licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: diversify commit ownership (top <90%); add a test suite

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

alt-tab-macosprogresshud
Stars15,5922,966
Last commit1mo ago5mo ago
LicenseGPL-3.0MIT
Open issues7412
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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