rime/weasel vs v8/v8
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, weasel and v8 both show mixed maintenance signals. weasel last saw a commit 6 months ago with 12+ active contributors, while v8 last saw a commit 1 month ago with 34+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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rime/weasel
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 2mo ago
- ✓12 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
v8/v8
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
no CI workflows detected; license evidence incomplete…
no CI workflows detected; license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected…
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ⚠Could not verify license from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓34+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| weasel | v8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,203 | 25,197 |
| Last commit | 6mo ago | 1mo ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 226 | 20 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | No |
| Test coverage | 30% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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