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sagernet/sing-box vs yaoapp/yao

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, sing-box and yao both show mixed maintenance signals. sing-box was committed to 1 day ago with 2+ active contributors, while yao was committed to 1 week ago with 2+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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sagernet/sing-box

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 99% of recent commits

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10

  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 2 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)
  • 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

yaoapp/yao

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

MixedDependency

top contributor handles 99% of recent commits; license evidence incomplete…

MixedFork & modify

license evidence incomplete

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete…

  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 2 active contributors
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

sing-boxyao
Stars37,8807,900
Last commit1d ago7d ago
LicenseGPL-3.0Unknown
Open issues3277
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage12%68%
Dependency CVEs0 critical · 0 high · 9 moderate · 0 lowNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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