qbittorrent/qbittorrent vs squirrel/squirrel.windows
squirrel/squirrel.windows shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, squirrel.windows shows healthier maintenance signals than qbittorrent. squirrel.windows rates Healthy overall while qbittorrent rates Mixed. qbittorrent was committed to 3 weeks ago with 24+ active contributors, while squirrel.windows last saw a commit 1 year ago with 26+ active contributors. qbittorrent is Other-licensed while squirrel.windows is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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qbittorrent/qbittorrent →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (Other); no tests detected
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.
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 25% of recent commits)
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
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, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
squirrel/squirrel.windows →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 40% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| qbittorrent | squirrel.windows | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 37,971 | 7,944 |
| Last commit | 25d ago | 1y ago |
| License | Other | MIT |
| Open issues | 2,624 | 423 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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