quipnetwork/xq-rs vs tw93/pake
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, xq-rs and pake both show mixed maintenance signals. xq-rs last saw a commit 5 months ago with 1+ active contributor, while pake was committed to 6 days ago with 15+ active contributors. xq-rs is AGPL-3.0-licensed while pake is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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quipnetwork/xq-rs
Solo project — review before adopting
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
CI evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 5w ago
- ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
tw93/pake
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 56% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| xq-rs | pake | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 5,737 | 61,322 |
| Last commit | 5mo ago | 6d ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 0 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | Unknown | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 31% | 89% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | A |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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