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niedev/rtranslator vs tencent/shadow

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, rtranslator and shadow both show mixed maintenance signals. rtranslator was committed to 2 weeks ago with 2+ active contributors, while shadow last saw a commit 5 months ago with 11+ active contributors. rtranslator is Apache-2.0-licensed while shadow is BSD-3-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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niedev/rtranslator

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

MixedDependency

top contributor handles 99% of recent commits; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected…

  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 1w ago
  • 2 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: diversify commit ownership (top <90%)
  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

tencent/shadow

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 5mo ago

MixedDependency

dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Slowing — last commit 5mo ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 83% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 5mo ago
  • 11 active contributors
  • BSD-3-Clause licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

rtranslatorshadow
Stars10,3797,786
Last commit20d ago5mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0BSD-3-Clause
Open issues2669
Has tests
Has CINo
Test coverage1%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeCC
Cycles00
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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