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lwouis/alt-tab-macos: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in lwouis/alt-tab-macos's code and history at 0d9d710: its licence, security advisories, releases, review practice, tests, dependencies and operations. Every finding cites the file and line it rests on. The full report also covers the team and asks the questions the code cannot answer.
| Dimension | Rating |
|---|---|
| Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance | strong |
| Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity | adequate |
| Product & Engineering Maturity | strong |
| Security & Reliability Posture | adequate |
| Observability & Operations | not assessable |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongsrc/switcher/state/WindowEventReducer.swift is 1,820 lines, 18× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 96 lines. 6 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 1,820. Size is not a defect on its own — some problems genuinely live in one place — but these are where merge conflicts, review fatigue and single-owner knowledge concentrate, and they are the first thing that slows an inheriting engineer down.
src/switcher/state/WindowEventReducer.swift:1 — 1,820 lines (18× median) |
src/preferences/settings-window/SettingsWindow.swift:1 — 1,345 lines (14× median) |
src/switcher/state/Applications.swift:1 — 1,314 lines (13× median) |
src/preferences/settings-window/tabs/controls/ControlsTab.swift:1 — 1,059 lines (11× median) |
src/switcher/state/TrackedWindowState.swift:1 — 1,031 lines (10× median) |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
adequateLittle of the recent change carries a trace of review
adequateIn the last 24 months, 64 of 817 commits (7.8%) carry any trace of review: a merge, a pull-request reference, a Reviewed-by or Reviewed-on trailer, a Closes/Fixes reference, a maintainer's sign-off on someone else's change, or a change applied by someone other than its author. That is low but not absent. Review may happen in a workflow this history does not record; a buyer should ask how change is approved before it ships.
| 64 of 817 commits in the last 24 months carry review evidence; 13.9% across all 2,024 |
Pinned dependencies have not moved in 13 months
adequateThe lockfile last changed 394 days before the newest commit, and 537 commits have landed since. Every security fix published upstream in that time is absent until someone updates it, and the longer the gap the larger and riskier that update becomes.
| Pipfile.lock last changed 2025-08-27 |
Product & Engineering Maturity
strongNo finding.
Security & Reliability Posture
adequateNone of the standard security guard rails are configured
adequateThere is no disclosure policy, no automated dependency updates, no named code owners and no pre-commit configuration. None of these is load-bearing on its own. Their collective absence says that security posture here is whatever the current team happens to remember to do, which is not a posture that survives the team changing.
| checked 5 kinds of guard rail across 1,368 tracked files; 0 present |
6 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 2 high or critical in what ships
adequate6 of 34 locked dependencies match 8 published advisories in OSV, 2 of them rated high or critical. A lockfile says which version is installed, not whether the flawed code is reachable from this product, so each needs a look. Most are fixed by an upgrade, and the advisory names the version.
Pipfile.lock — h11 0.9.0: GHSA-vqfr-h8mv-ghfj (critical), fixed in 0.16.0 |
Pipfile.lock — httpx 0.13.3: GHSA-h8pj-cxx2-jfg2 (critical), fixed in 0.23.0 |
Pipfile.lock — h2 3.2.0: GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg (moderate), fixed in 4.4.1 |
Manifest says MIT, licence file says GPL-3.0
adequatepackage.json declares MIT. LICENCE.md contains the text of GPL-3.0. Package managers and downstream users read the first; auditors and acquirers read the second. One of them is wrong, and until it is settled the terms this code is offered under are genuinely ambiguous.
package.json:6 — declares MIT |
LICENCE.md — text of GPL-3.0 |
2 vendored components with no licence
adequateThird-party code is committed into this repository without any statement of the terms it arrived under. Unknown terms are harder to deal with than inconvenient ones: an awkward licence can be complied with, an absent one cannot. Each of these needs its origin established before the code changes hands.
vendor/ShortcutRecorder — 274 tracked files, no licence file |
vendor/scripts — 4 tracked files, no licence file |
Observability & Operations
not assessableNot rated: only 4 of 16 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it.
Fit with the Acquirer
not assessableNot rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.
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