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ocornut/imgui
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46ff5a7 · 10,127 commits · 304 files
Issued 2026-10-03

Nothing significant. Questions worth asking about Product & Engineering Maturity, Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity.

103 checks ran across 6 assessable dimensions. 2 findings are worth checking first. 4 findings, each with evidence. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.

What the repository says about itself
Worth checking first

Borehole's proprietary scoring is calibrated across hundreds of repositories. Each finding here reads significant, but its check has not yet held up often enough in that calibration to rate significant on its own. If one holds when someone checks it, it is significant.

  • 04.1 Change keeps returning to the same few files
  • 02.3 Tests are absent or token
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strong adequate significant findings not assessable from a repository
Provenance disclosure does not affect any rating
0% of the code standing today was written in AI-declared commits
0% of lines still in the tree 0 of 138,538 0% of lines ever added these differ when early hand-written code has since been replaced
0% of lines added in the last 12 months (since 2025-09-29) arrived in AI-declared commits: 0/762 commits, confidence moderate. Also a floor.
0/9,594 commits declaring an agent
confidence: moderate
  • 0% of non-merge commits carry any trailer at all
  • low trailer coverage: the convention may not be in consistent use
  • no widespread author/committer date divergence
  • deep scan blamed 304 of 304 counted files
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Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance

01 · strong · ratings ↑
A note that does not affect this rating
01.6

imgui.cpp is 18,706 lines, 97× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 191 lines. 9 files exceed 1,910 lines, the largest being 18,706. 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.

A note that does not affect this rating: measured against its own codebase's median, it is below the 85th percentile of 382 surveyed projects' largest files, where this check begins to count.

Evidence
line-count imgui.cpp:1 — 18,706 lines (97× median)
line-count imgui_demo.cpp:1 — 11,395 lines (59× median)
line-count imgui_widgets.cpp:1 — 11,163 lines (58× median)
line-count imgui_draw.cpp:1 — 6,833 lines (35× median)
line-count imstb_truetype.h:1 — 5,086 lines (26× median)
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Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

02 · adequate · ratings ↑
02.3

Tests are absent or token

adequate worth checking first

0 test files against 72 source files (0.0%). 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.

The check that found this reads significant, but it has not yet held up often enough in Borehole's calibration to rate a finding significant on its own. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
test-file-ratio 0 test files / 72 source files
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Organization & Key-Person Risk

03 · not assessable · ratings ↑

Not rated: this repository belongs to a person rather than an organisation, so a finding about one contributor would be about someone the address names; the public report does not carry those, and does not rate this dimension without them. What a person adds here.

Product & Engineering Maturity

04 · adequate · ratings ↑
04.1

Change keeps returning to the same few files

adequate worth checking first

Five files out of 946 absorb 55% of all file-level change. Concentration like this is where debt is usually being serviced rather than repaid: the same code is reopened because it is load-bearing, fragile, or both. A repository cannot tell you which — that is a conversation with the team.

The check that found this reads significant, but it has not yet held up often enough in Borehole's calibration to rate a finding significant on its own. Opening imgui.cpp and the 4 other files it cites settles it. If it holds when someone checks it, this finding is significant.

Evidence
touch-count imgui.cpp — 4,966 commits touched it
touch-count imgui.h — 2,692 commits touched it
touch-count imgui_internal.h — 2,067 commits touched it
touch-count imgui_widgets.cpp — 1,492 commits touched it
touch-count imgui_demo.cpp — 1,373 commits touched it
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04.2

527 unresolved debt markers, 4.5 per thousand lines

adequate

The codebase carries 527 TODO, FIXME, HACK or XXX markers across 115,983 lines. These are the team's own notes about work they knew was unfinished. A high density is not automatically bad — it can mean an honest team — but every one of them is a decision deferred, and after an acquisition they are deferred onto someone who was not in the room.

Evidence
debt-marker .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/issue_template.yml:29 — value: "Version 1.XX, Branch: XXX (master/docking/etc.)"
debt-marker .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/issue_template.yml:30 — placeholder: "Version 1.XX, Branch: XXX (master/docking/etc.)"
debt-marker .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/issue_template.yml:65 — XXX _(please provide as much context as possible)_
debt-marker backends/imgui_impl_allegro5.cpp:93 — // FIXME-OPT: Unfortunately Allegro doesn't support 32-bit packed colors so we have to con
debt-marker backends/imgui_impl_allegro5.cpp:94 — // FIXME-OPT: Consider inlining al_map_rgba()?
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Security & Reliability Posture

05 · strong · ratings ↑

No finding. 34 checks ran and none fired; the rejection log below says why each did not.

Observability & Operations

06 · not assessable · ratings ↑

Not rated: only 4 of 16 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it. What a person adds here.

Fit with the Acquirer

07 · not assessable · ratings ↑

Not rated: structurally not assessable from a repository. What a person adds here.

What a person adds

The survey reads what the repository can show. The code cannot settle these questions, and on them this report states nothing. Each says where its answer lives: your own engineer, the company, or an assessor you choose can settle it. Questions marked measured open with something this repository shows.

Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance

01 · full coverage
  1. Is the architecture right for the next three years of the product? Answer lives in: Your architects, with the product roadmap01.39
  2. Were the home-grown components reasonable choices when they were made, and are they now? Answer lives in: The team's reasoning at the time01.40

Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

02 · high coverage
  1. Is review real or a rubber stamp? Comment depth and time to approve need the pull request history. Answer lives in: The code host's pull request data02.32
  2. Is delivery planned and measured, or heroic? Answer lives in: The issue tracker: backlog, sprint history, estimate accuracy02.38
  3. How are incidents run, reviewed and learned from? Answer lives in: Tickets, chat and postmortems02.37

Organization & Key-Person Risk

03 · partial coverage

Not rated: this repository belongs to a person rather than an organisation, so a finding about one contributor would be about someone the address names; the public report does not carry those, and does not rate this dimension without them.

  1. Which of the people who wrote this are part of the transaction, and for how long after it? Answer lives in: The deal terms03.29
  2. Who mentors whom, and would that survive a departure? Answer lives in: The team; review history only suggests candidates03.28
  3. Can the team grow, and who stands behind the top three contributors? Answer lives in: Recruiting data and the org chart03.30
  4. Is the seniority mix sound, and will pay survive your salary bands? Answer lives in: HR data03.31
  5. Is the pace sustainable? Commit times cannot say: git keeps no reliable local time. Answer lives in: Interviews and on-call history03.14
  6. Does the team want to stay after close? Answer lives in: Interviews03.32
  7. How are decisions made and disagreements resolved? Answer lives in: Time with the team03.33

Product & Engineering Maturity

04 · minimal coverage
  1. Can this team deliver the stated roadmap on the stated timeline? Answer lives in: The data room and the team's record of estimates04.32
  2. Does leadership know about the debt, and is time budgeted to repay it? Answer lives in: Budget and roadmap decisions04.31
  3. Is the engineering shape consistent with the commercial story? Answer lives in: Revenue, customer and churn data04.33

Security & Reliability Posture

05 · partial coverage
  1. What has actually broken, how often, and how badly? Answer lives in: Ticketing and chat05.41
  2. What did external testing find, and was it fixed? Answer lives in: Reports in the data room05.42
  3. What is the SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR status, and where is the evidence? Answer lives in: Audit reports; policy files in the tree are not evidence05.44

Observability & Operations

06 · partial coverage

Not rated: only 4 of 16 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it.

  1. Are the dashboards opened, the alerts acknowledged and the pages answered? Answer lives in: Pager history and dashboard logs06.29
  2. Are the service-level objectives actually met? Answer lives in: Production metrics06.30
  3. Who carries the pager, and how often does it go off? Answer lives in: Pager exports and interviews06.31
  4. What does it cost to run, and how much headroom is there? Answer lives in: Cloud billing and capacity plans06.32

Fit with the Acquirer

07 · none coverage

Not rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.

  1. This is primarily a C codebase, with C++ alongside (42% of source files). Does your engineering organisation already run C in production, or would this be the first? 07.1
  2. The bulk of this system sits in backends/, misc/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
  3. Nothing in the repository says how this is deployed. Is it shipped as a library, a binary or a service, and if it runs somewhere, who owns that environment? 07.2
  4. What is your tolerance for the findings above remaining unaddressed for the first two quarters after close, given everything else that will compete for this team's time?
  5. Which of these systems duplicate yours, and which get retired? Answer lives in: Your architecture07.11
  6. What will integration cost, and in what order? Answer lives in: The engagement07.12
  7. Where does the team land in your organisation, and who reports to whom? Answer lives in: Your org design07.13
  8. Are there earn-outs, retention packages or contractor IP to assign? Answer lives in: Deal terms07.14
  9. Do customer contracts limit hosting, regions or vendors? Answer lives in: Customer contracts07.15

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Rejection log — 99 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 99 signals that ran and did not fire

Published on purpose. A signal that looked and decided not to fire has told you something, and this is the calibration data behind every threshold above.

Looked, and found nothing — 54

SignalWhat it found
04.test_growth test effort kept pace with code writtenlate test per code 0.0 · early test per code 0.0
04.churn_trend rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.628 · early delete per insert 0.614
04.fix_share_trend fixing is not crowding out building
06.telemetry_presence this repository does not deploy a running service, so instrumentation is not expected of itbasis nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere · files read 227
06.healthcheck_presence not a running service, so a health endpoint is not expectedbasis nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.usage_reporting_default the product's code names no reporting hostsettings on 0 · settings off 0
06.migrate_on_start migrations do not run at container start
03.active_contributors withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.knowledge_silos withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.drive_by_contributors withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.contributor_attrition withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.critical_path_ownership withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.second_contributor_attrition withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.bus_factor_trend withheld: this check's result would describe one person
03.joiners_and_leavers withheld: this check's result would describe one person
02.merge_discipline a meaningful share of recent change carries evidence of reviewmerges 0 · window last 24 months · with tracked 0
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 5
02.release_cadence tags are presenttags 159
02.conventional_commits commit subjects generally carry contentsampled 9,594 · low content share 0.016
02.branch_protection_hints process scaffolding is present in the repository
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 5
02.revert_share change is rarely undoneshare 0.003 · reverts 6 · recent commits 1,747
02.flaky_test_markers tests are not retried until they passtest retries 0 · suite retries 0
02.commit_size changes arrive in reviewable sizesshare 0.001 · commits 1,662 · over 2000 lines 2
01.burst_import no commit run met both the rate and the net-addition thresholdgap seconds 180 · min add ratio 3.0 · min net added 2,000
01.initial_dump first commit is not a disproportionate share of the codebaseinsertions 4 · share of insertions 0.0
01.message_uniformity commit subjects vary in wording and lengthlength stdev 56.74 · repeat share 0.048
01.revision_depth most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 82 · write once share 0.061
01.duplicated_blocks little shipping code is repeated verbatim across filesshare 0.0062 · product files 72 · distinct blocks 61,533
01.unfinished_migration no language migration is stalled halfway
01.weights_in_git no model weights are committedfiles 0
05.committed_secrets no credential-shaped strings outside test and fixture pathsnote the working tree only; the history is 05.5 · patterns 8 · files read 227
05.security_guardrails at least one standard guard rail is configured
05.license_present a licence file is presentfound True
05.secrets_in_history no credential-shaped string was ever added outside test and fixture pathspatterns 8 · truncated False · added lines 318,181
05.secrets_management_pattern no environment file is committed outside tests and examplesenv files 0
05.supply_chain_pinning third-party build steps are pinned, or fewaction refs 14 · pipe to shell 0 · unpinned third party 1
05.privileged_workloads no workload runs privileged or in the host's namespacessites 0 · behind a setting or built here 0
05.credentials_in_deploy_config deployment configuration references secrets, never holds themfiles 0 · sites 0
05.signing_material no signing keystore or profile is committedfiles 0
05.license_vendored_unlicensed no vendored third-party code is committedcomponents 0
05.license_grant_unclear the licence is recognisable as MITclass permissive · license MIT
05.committed_native_libraries no widely used compiled library is committed to the productlibraries 0
04.ci_platforms_dropped no platform was dropped from CI in the last two years
04.repository_status the README's first screen states no end, move or freezestatements 0
02.development_elsewhere nothing says development happens elsewhereno pr statements 0 · mirror statements 0 · replayed commit share 0.0
05.licence_changes the root licence has not changed in the history readlicence versions 1 · unreleased changes 0
05.paid_edition no directory carries a separate paid-edition licencedirectories 0
04.releases_stopped releases keep pace with developmentmedian gap days 3.0 · days since last tag 60 · commits last 90 days 175
04.release_branch the newest release was cut from the branch surveyedelsewhere 2 · on branch 121 · tags in window 123
03.single_maintainer withheld: this check's result would describe one person
05.project_advisories no published advisory affects the surveyed versionaffecting 0 · exploited 0 · advisories 0
05.advisory_record no advisory against the project in the last 24 monthscritical 0 · affecting 0 · could not tell 0
05.project_exploited no affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited listexploited 0

Could not conclude, or did not apply — 45

Not a clean result. Each says why it could not answer here.

SignalWhy
04.dependency_sprawlno recognised dependency manifest found
04.eol_runtimeno pinned runtime version to check
04.fixes_with_testsno tests to add to (02.3)
04.schema_churnno schema migrations to read
04.compat_layersa library, whose compatibility code is usually deliberate
04.dependency_redundancyno JavaScript manifest to read
06.structured_loggingnot assessed for C or C++, the languages the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
06.telemetry_depthnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.print_loggingnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.correlation_idsnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.error_reportingnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.alert_rulesnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.deployed_image_floatsnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.probes_identicalno Kubernetes probes
06.single_replicano Kubernetes deployments
06.environment_branchingnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.release_markersnot expected of it: nothing in this repository deploys a long-running server; if it runs as one, its deployment lives elsewhere
06.feature_flagsno feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere
02.skipped_teststoo few test files to judge how many are switched off
02.dependency_update_cadenceno lockfile to date
02.long_lived_branchestoo few merges to judge (squash and rebase leave none)
01.swallowed_errorsnot assessed for C or C++, the languages the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
01.build_reproducibilityno product Dockerfile to read
01.notebook_outputsnot a data or machine-learning repository
05.dependency_pinningno manifest whose pinning can be read without a lockfile
05.container_runs_as_rootno Dockerfile to read
05.outbound_timeoutsnot a running service
05.migration_reversibilitytoo few migrations to judge
05.sql_from_stringsnot a running service; a library that builds SQL is doing its job
05.shell_from_stringsnot assessed for C or C++, the languages the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.unsafe_deserializationnot assessed for C or C++, the languages the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.tls_verification_offnot assessed for C or C++, the languages the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.resource_limitsno Kubernetes workload manifests
05.known_vulnerabilitiesno lockfile this survey can read, or a collector older than 0.4.0
05.public_env_secretnot a frontend
05.unsafe_htmlnot a frontend
05.source_maps_shippednot a frontend
05.cleartext_trafficnot a mobile app
05.dataset_provenancenot a data or machine-learning repository
05.license_copyleft_inheritedno third-party code is committed to this repository, so the licences it depends on are resolved at build time and are not readable here
05.license_manifest_conflictno packaging manifest states a licence
04.flags_accumulatingfew or no feature flags in the history
04.api_versions_coexistingnot a running service
04.deprecations_lingeringa library, which keeps deprecated interfaces for its users
04.dependency_churnfew dependencies were added and dropped within 60 days
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