square/otto vs tencent/tinker
square/otto shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, otto shows healthier maintenance signals than tinker. otto rates Healthy overall while tinker rates Mixed. otto last saw a commit 7 years ago with 19+ active contributors, while tinker last saw a commit 2 months ago with 4+ active contributors. otto is Apache-2.0-licensed while tinker is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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square/otto →
Healthy across all four use cases
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 7y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 64% of recent commits
- ✓19 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
tencent/tinker →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (Other); no CI workflows detected
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.
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 52% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| otto | tinker | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 5,127 | 17,628 |
| Last commit | 7y ago | 2mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Other |
| Open issues | 18 | 556 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 100% | 15% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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