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nickshmick92/chip-8

Language: TypeScript
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chip-8 emulator in TS

Open on SourceCraftDownload report (Markdown)snapshot 8 October 2026signal coverage 80%analysed 17 September 2026 at 19:07 UTC — not all categories measured

What the 100 is made of

category weight
Documentation 20Activity 20Security 20CI/CD 15Issues 15Code health 10

The light segment — Security: will appear with a member token, while the rest share its weight for now.

Six categories

earned / weight
Documentation and best practices
11.5 / 25
scored
Project activity
4.2 / 25
scored
Securitywill appear with a member token
no data
CI/CDsignal coverage 50%
0–9.4 / 18.8
partial
Issues
0 / 18.8
scored
Code health
8.7 / 12.5
scored
States:
scored
partial
no data
weight goes to the rest
collection failed
interval, not zero
Not measured: CI runs
closed by the platform
will become a group once access opens

Strengths

what's already done
  • The license file is in place
  • Dependency versions are pinned

What affected the score

Penalties

Documentation and best practices

  • −3
    README242 chars, no quickstart
  • −3
    tests directorymissing
  • −3
    docs directorymissing
  • −3
    Dockerfilemissing
  • −1
    contributing guidemissing
  • −<1
    share of short commit messages — 31%

Project activity

  • −4
    last commit — 896 days
  • −4
    commits in the last year — 0 commits
  • −4
    weekly activity — 0 weeks
  • −4
    last releaseno releases or version tags
  • −3
    top author's share of commits — 94%
  • −1
    unique authors — 3 authors

CI/CD

  • −9
    SourceCraft CI configurationmissing

Issues

  • −9
    share of unanswered issues — 100%sample: 5 of 10
  • −9
    age of open issues — 897 days6 issues

Code health

  • −4
    TODO/FIXME density

Not measured — interval width

Not a penalty: the lower bound of the score counts the metric as zero, the upper bound as full

CI/CD

  • up to −9
    CI runsdata not collected

What will raise the score

by strength of impact
  • CI/CD
    +9
    add a SourceCraft CI configuration (.sourcecraft/ci.yaml); the service does not see external CISourceCraft CI configurationwhy: the build and the checks are reproducible for whoever takes the code
  • Issues
    +9
    respond to issuesshare of unanswered issues — 100%why: an outside contributor gets an answer, and their work is not lostevidence: the repository's issue list, snapshot of 8 October 2026
  • Issues
    +9
    work through the stale open issuesage of open issues — 897 dayswhy: an outside contributor gets an answer, and their work is not lostevidence: the repository's issue list, snapshot of 8 October 2026
  • make a commit soon+4
  • commit more often+4
  • spread work across more weeks instead of bursts+4
  • publish a release or tag a version+4
  • work through the TODO/FIXME marks in the code+4
  • share the work with other contributors+3
  • add a quickstart section to the README+3
  • write tests for the project+3
  • write project documentation+3
  • containerize the project — add a Dockerfile+3
  • add a contributing guide+1
  • bring in a second maintainer+1
  • write meaningful commit messages+<1