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shadowsocks/shadowsocks vs tiangolo/fastapi

tiangolo/fastapi shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, fastapi shows healthier maintenance signals than shadowsocks. fastapi rates Healthy overall while shadowsocks rates Concerns. shadowsocks last saw a commit 2 years ago with 1+ active contributor, while fastapi was committed to today with 5+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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shadowsocks/shadowsocks

Concerns

Looks unmaintained — solo project with stale commits

ConcernsDependency

no license — legally unclear; last commit was 2y ago…

ConcernsFork & modify

no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

ConcernsDeploy as-is

no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 2y ago…

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
  • No license — legally unclear to depend on
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.); 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • Fork & modify ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file; add a test suite
  • Deploy as-is ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

tiangolo/fastapi

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
  • Last commit today
  • 5 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 48% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • 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

shadowsocksfastapi
Stars33,59199,696
Last commit2y agotoday
LicenseMIT
Open issues450100
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineConcerns signalsHealthy signals

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