rcore-os/rcore vs tw93/pake
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, rcore and pake both show mixed maintenance signals. rcore last saw a commit 3 years ago with 8+ active contributors, while pake was committed to 1 week ago with 15+ active contributors. rcore is MIT-licensed while pake is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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rcore-os/rcore
Stale — last commit 3y ago
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 3y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 69% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
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
| rcore | pake | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 3,690 | 61,322 |
| Last commit | 3y ago | 10d ago |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 11 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 2% | 89% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 2 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | A |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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