programthink/zhao vs sjmoran/satire-classifier
Both showing Concerns signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, zhao and satire-classifier both show concerning maintenance signals. zhao last saw a commit 4 years ago with 1+ active contributor, while satire-classifier last saw a commit 3 years ago with 2+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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programthink/zhao →
Looks unmaintained — solo project with stale commits
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 5y ago…
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 5y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 5y ago
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs); 1 commit in the last 365 days
- →Fork & modify Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days; bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard
sjmoran/satire-classifier →
Stale and unlicensed — last commit 3y ago
no license — legally unclear; last commit was 3y ago…
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 3y ago…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 67% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓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
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| zhao | satire-classifier | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 13,984 | 1 |
| Last commit | 4y ago | 3y ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | — |
| Open issues | 384 | 4 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | — |
| Test coverage | 0% | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Concerns signals | Concerns signals |
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