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xinntao/real-esrgan vs z4nzu/hackingtool

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, real-esrgan and hackingtool both show healthy maintenance signals. real-esrgan last saw a commit 1 year ago with 11+ active contributors, while hackingtool last saw a commit 3 months ago with 10+ active contributors. real-esrgan is BSD-3-Clause-licensed while hackingtool is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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xinntao/real-esrgan

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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.

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 87% of recent commits
  • 11 active contributors
  • BSD-3-Clause licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

z4nzu/hackingtool

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.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 57% of recent commits
  • Last commit 8w ago
  • 10 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

real-esrganhackingtool
Stars35,35473,012
Last commit1y ago3mo ago
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseMIT
Open issues640100
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%3%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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