Read 2026-10-04
mihonapp/mihon: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in mihonapp/mihon's code and history at 866d045: 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 | adequate |
| Security & Reliability Posture | adequate |
| Observability & Operations | not assessable |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongapp/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/ui/reader/viewer/webgpu/WebGpuViewer.kt is 2,026 lines, 35× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 57 lines. 3 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 2,026. 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.
app/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/ui/reader/viewer/webgpu/WebGpuViewer.kt:1 — 2,026 lines (35× median) |
app/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/ui/manga/MangaViewModel.kt:1 — 1,214 lines (21× median) |
app/src/main/java/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/ui/reader/ReaderViewModel.kt:1 — 1,028 lines (18× median) |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
adequateTests cover a thin slice of the codebase
adequate9 test files against 919 source files (1.0%). This does not measure whether the tests are good, only whether enough of them exist for the codebase to be changed safely by someone who did not write it — which is exactly the situation after an acquisition.
| 9 test files / 919 source files |
Product & Engineering Maturity
adequate1% of bug fixes add or change a test
adequateOf 149 fixes in the last 24 months, 2 touched a test. A fix without the test that would have caught the bug can quietly come back, and the suite never learns from what went wrong.
| 2 of 149 |
Security & Reliability Posture
adequate2 credential-shaped strings committed to the tree
adequateMatches for Google API key appear in tracked files outside test and fixture paths. They stay in the history even after they leave the tree, so what matters is whether each was rotated. The code cannot tell whether any of them is live, and that decides whether this matters: none sits in production configuration, and none is in a format its provider keeps for live keys. Is any of these live? Show that each was rotated after it was committed, and when. Only Google API keys matched. Those are often public by design, in a browser app's Firebase or Maps configuration; the question is whether each is restricted to the app's domains and APIs.
| 2 cited: Google API key pattern matched |
The app allows plain HTTP to any server
adequateThe app's manifest allows unencrypted HTTP app-wide (NSAllowsArbitraryLoads, or cleartext traffic permitted), rather than for named domains. Anything sent over plain HTTP can be read on the network, and enterprise security reviews ask about it. Some apps need it by nature (a podcast or feed reader fetches whatever URL a feed gives), so ask which case this is.
app/src/main/res/xml/network_security_config.xml:4 — cleartext allowed app-wide |
Observability & Operations
not assessableNot rated: only 5 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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