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nickemanarin/screentogif vs shadowsocksr-backup/shadowsocksr-csharp

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, screentogif and shadowsocksr-csharp both show mixed maintenance signals. screentogif last saw a commit 2 months ago with 13+ active contributors, while shadowsocksr-csharp last saw a commit 7 years ago with 2+ active contributors. screentogif is MS-PL-licensed while shadowsocksr-csharp is GPL-3.0-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

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

shadowsocksr-backup/shadowsocksr-csharp

Mixed

Stale — last commit 7y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 7y ago…

MixedFork & modify

no CI workflows detected; no description (proxy for README missing)…

MixedLearn from

no description (proxy for README missing); last commit was 7y ago

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 7y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 7y ago
  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 2 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
  • Fork & modify MixedHealthy if: wire up GitHub Actions or equivalent
  • Learn from MixedHealthy if: add a README + repo description
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

screentogifshadowsocksr-csharp
Stars26,9104,511
Last commit2mo ago7y ago
LicenseMS-PLGPL-3.0
Open issues32010
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%4%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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