sherlock-project/sherlock vs sjmoran/satire-classifier
sherlock-project/sherlock shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, sherlock shows healthier maintenance signals than satire-classifier. sherlock rates Healthy overall while satire-classifier rates Concerns. sherlock was committed to 1 day ago with 24+ active contributors, while satire-classifier last saw a commit 3 years ago with 2+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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sherlock-project/sherlock →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
sjmoran/satire-classifier →
Stale and unlicensed — last commit 3y ago
no license — legally unclear; last commit was 3y ago…
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 3y ago…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 67% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| sherlock | satire-classifier | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 85,525 | 1 |
| Last commit | 1d ago | 3y ago |
| License | MIT | — |
| Open issues | 299 | 4 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 100% | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Concerns signals |
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