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nickemanarin/screentogif vs shadowsocks/shadowsocks-windows

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, screentogif and shadowsocks-windows both show mixed maintenance signals. screentogif last saw a commit 1 month ago with 13+ active contributors, while shadowsocks-windows last saw a commit 1 year ago with 11+ active contributors. screentogif is MS-PL-licensed while shadowsocks-windows is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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nickemanarin/screentogif

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (MS-PL)

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.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 69% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (MS-PL) — review terms
  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 13 active contributors
  • MS-PL licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

shadowsocks/shadowsocks-windows

Mixed

Stale — last commit 1y ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); last commit was 1y ago…

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.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 1y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 1y ago
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 11 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 44% of recent commits)
  • Other licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

screentogifshadowsocks-windows
Stars26,91059,548
Last commit1mo ago1y ago
LicenseMS-PLOther
Open issues320200
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%12%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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