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.
| Dimension | Rating |
|---|---|
| Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance | strong |
| Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity | adequate |
| Product & Engineering Maturity | strong |
| Security & Reliability Posture | adequate |
| Observability & Operations | adequate |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
What the repository says
LICENSE:1: The licence is FSL-1.1-ALv2: source available, not open sourceLICENSE: Relicensed: BSD-3-Clause → FSL-1.1-ALv2 (2026-02-04)
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongNo finding.
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
adequateNothing in the history is tagged as a release
adequateAcross 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.
| 0 tags across 972 commits and 1903 days |
Tests are retried until they pass
adequateThe 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.
playwright.config.ts:15 — test retry |
Product & Engineering Maturity
strongNo finding.
Security & Reliability Posture
adequate39 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 8 high or critical in what ships
adequate39 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.
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 |
The licence is FSL-1.1-ALv2: source available, not open source
adequateLICENSE 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.
LICENSE:1 — 105 lines, FSL-1.1-ALv2 |
Relicensed: BSD-3-Clause → FSL-1.1-ALv2 (2026-02-04)
adequateThe 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.
Observability & Operations
adequateNo telemetry or error reporting is wired in anywhere
adequateNone 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.
| 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 |
No structured logging library is in use
adequateNothing 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.
| searched 1,022 files for 10 structured logging libraries; 0 matched |
One request cannot be followed through the logs
adequateNothing 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.
| no request id, correlation id or tracing found |
No error reporter is wired in
adequateNothing 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.
| no error reporter initialised |
Fit with the Acquirer
not assessableNot rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.
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