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saleor/storefront
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a6e357a · 972 commits · 1,099 files
Read 2026-10-23

saleor/storefront: technical due diligence, read from its repository

What Borehole read in saleor/storefront's code and history at a6e357a: 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.

DimensionRating
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenancestrong
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturityadequate
Product & Engineering Maturitystrong
Security & Reliability Postureadequate
Observability & Operationsadequate
Fit with the Acquirernot assessable

What the repository says

  • LICENSE:1: The licence is FSL-1.1-ALv2: source available, not open source
  • LICENSE: Relicensed: BSD-3-Clause → FSL-1.1-ALv2 (2026-02-04)

Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance

strong

No finding.

Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

adequate
02.4

Nothing in the history is tagged as a release

adequate

Across 5.2 years of history there is not one tag. There may still be a deployment process, but this repository holds no record of what shipped when — which is the record a buyer needs to reconstruct an incident or a regression after the fact.

Evidence
0 tags across 972 commits and 1903 days
02.16

Tests are retried until they pass

adequate

The suite is configured to retry failing tests (playwright.config.ts). A retry turns a flaky test green without saying why it failed, so a green build means the tests passed eventually. Ask how many retries a typical run needs, and which tests need them.

Evidence
playwright.config.ts:15 — test retry

Product & Engineering Maturity

strong

No finding.

Security & Reliability Posture

adequate
05.26

39 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 8 high or critical in what ships

adequate

39 of 995 locked dependencies match 90 published advisories in OSV, 58 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.

Evidence
pnpm-lock.yaml — shell-quote 1.8.3: GHSA-w7jw-789q-3m8p (critical), fixed in 1.8.4; a development dependency
pnpm-lock.yaml — browserslist 4.28.1: GHSA-73wf-gq98-2v4g (high), fixed in 4.28.7
pnpm-lock.yaml — browserslist 4.28.2: GHSA-73wf-gq98-2v4g (high), fixed in 4.28.7
05.66

The licence is FSL-1.1-ALv2: source available, not open source

adequate

LICENSE grants FSL-1.1-ALv2: source available, not open source; a competing commercial product or service is not allowed; each version becomes Apache-2.0 two years after its release. The reading comes from the licence's own title and clauses. Whether the terms fit the buyer's intended use, and whether any paid licence transfers with the code, is a question for counsel and the licensor.

Evidence
LICENSE:1 — 105 lines, FSL-1.1-ALv2
05.60

Relicensed: BSD-3-Clause → FSL-1.1-ALv2 (2026-02-04)

adequate

The root licence changed 1 time(s). The latest terms restrict what users, hosts or a buyer may do in ways the earlier ones did not. Code taken under the old terms stays under them, so both matter in diligence.

Evidence
LICENSE — BSD-3-Clause from 2022-08-02
LICENSE — FSL-1.1-ALv2 from 2026-02-04

Observability & Operations

adequate
06.1

No telemetry or error reporting is wired in anywhere

adequate

None of 1,022 readable files references an instrumentation, metrics or error-reporting library. If this system is in production, nobody learns that it broke from the system itself — they learn it from a customer. That is a reliability finding before it is an observability one.

Evidence
searched 1,022 tracked text files for 16 known instrumentation libraries; manifests for metrics, tracing and error-reporting families; locked dependencies for the packages that emit; 0 matched
06.2

No structured logging library is in use

adequate

Nothing references a structured logging library. Logs that are written to be read by a person are not searchable by a machine, which means incident response here is proportional to how well someone remembers the codebase rather than to what the tooling can find.

Evidence
searched 1,022 files for 10 structured logging libraries; 0 matched
06.8

One request cannot be followed through the logs

adequate

Nothing in the service carries a request or correlation id, and there is no tracing. When a customer reports a failure, the log lines that belong to their request cannot be picked out from everyone else's.

Evidence
no request id, correlation id or tracing found
06.9

No error reporter is wired in

adequate

Nothing in the service initialises an error reporter (Sentry, Rollbar, Bugsnag, Honeybadger or an APM agent). An exception in production reaches a person only if someone is reading the logs, which usually means a customer reports it first.

Evidence
no error reporter initialised

Fit with the Acquirer

not assessable

Not rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.

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