macournoyer/thin vs mame/quine-relay
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, thin and quine-relay both show mixed maintenance signals. thin last saw a commit 1 year ago with 32+ active contributors, while quine-relay last saw a commit 8 months ago with 10+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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macournoyer/thin →
Slowing — last commit 11mo 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 11mo ago
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓Last commit 11mo ago
- ✓32+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% 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
mame/quine-relay →
Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
no license — legally unclear
no license — can't legally use code
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 7mo ago
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 7mo ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ✓Last commit 7mo ago
- ✓10 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| thin | quine-relay | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 2,275 | 14,476 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 8mo ago |
| License | Other | — |
| Open issues | 21 | 17 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 3% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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