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Issued 2026-11-03

Significant: one contributor carries the recent work.

1 of 6 assessable dimensions carries significant findings, 2 are adequate and 3 are strong. 4 findings are worth checking first. 18 findings, each with its evidence: the commit, path and lines it rests on, or, when something is missing, what was looked for. One dimension cannot be assessed without an acquirer.

What matters most
  • 03.1 Significant: Bus factor 1: recent work is concentrated in one contributor
What the repository says about itself
  • 05.60 Relicensed: GPL-3.0 → AGPL-3.0 (2020-09-28) LICENSE
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.

  • 03.5 The contributor who wrote more than half of this has not committed here for more than six months
  • 02.1 Change lands on the trunk with no trace of review
  • 02.3 Tests cover a thin slice of the codebase
  • 02.5 95% of commit subjects say nothing about the change
Published under today's rules. The verification code attests to this reading as it was stored. This page differs from it as follows.
  • 9 findings from checks Borehole's calibration found wrong more often than right are no longer published.
strong adequate significant findings not assessable from a repository
Provenance disclosure does not affect any rating
0% of added lines arrived in commits declaring an AI agent as co-author
The surviving-lines measurement was not run on this repository.
0/1,238 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
12,704 lines excluded as lockfiles, vendored or generated.
This is a lower bound. It counts what the repository declares. Undeclared AI authorship is invisible here, and a single rebase removes the trailers this rests on. Absence of a declaration is absence of disclosure, not absence of AI authorship.

Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance

01 · strong · ratings ↑
Notes that do not affect this rating
01.3

Commit messages are templated rather than written

adequate

88% of commit subjects are exact repeats of another subject, and subject length varies by only 4.9 characters. A log written by someone explaining their reasoning to a future reader does not look like this. The log is therefore weak evidence of intent, whatever the code is like.

A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.

Evidence
commit-subjects 687× 'bugfix'
commit-subjects 40× 'ekun008'
commit-subjects 33× 'api'
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01.6

src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/resources/videojs/alt/video.core.js is 30,828 lines, 550× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 56 lines. 28 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 30,828. 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. Measured against its own codebase's median, it is larger than 98% of 382 surveyed projects' largest files.

A note that does not affect this rating: notes like it are common in well-run projects.

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01.15

254 errors caught and discarded in product code

adequate

254 places catch an error and do nothing with it, across 78 files (0.7 per thousand lines). Each is a failure the system will not report. They surface later as problems nobody can explain, and they are cheap to fix now.

A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.

Evidence
src/SSCMS.Cli/Application.cs src/SSCMS.Cli/Application.cs:211 — error caught and discarded
src/SSCMS.Core/Plugins/PluginUtils.cs src/SSCMS.Core/Plugins/PluginUtils.cs:96 — error caught and discarded
src/SSCMS.Core/Plugins/PluginUtils.cs src/SSCMS.Core/Plugins/PluginUtils.cs:169 — error caught and discarded
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Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

02 · adequate · ratings ↑
02.1

Change lands on the trunk with no trace of review

adequate worth checking first

In the last 24 months, 0 of 57 commits (0.0%) 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. Every common review workflow leaves at least one of those, so either review happens somewhere this history cannot see, or it is not happening. A buyer should establish which before relying on the review story they are told.

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
reviewable-arrivals 0 of 57 commits in the last 24 months carry review evidence; 4.9% across all 1,292
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02.3

Tests cover a thin slice of the codebase

adequate worth checking first

37 test files against 2,172 source files (1.7%). 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 37 test files / 2,172 source files
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02.5

95% of commit subjects say nothing about the change

adequate worth checking first

1,178 of 1,238 subjects are either under twelve characters or one of the standard placeholders — wip, fix, update. The history is therefore not usable for reconstructing why a decision was taken, which is the main thing an inheriting engineer needs it for. It says nothing about code quality and a great deal about how much context transfers with the asset.

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
commit-subject-content 1,178/1,238 low-content subjects (95.2%)
example 'init'
example 'init'
example 'init'
example 'web.config'
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A note that does not affect this rating
02.6

Almost no process scaffolding exists in the repository

adequate

Of five ordinary markers — CI workflows, CODEOWNERS, a pull-request template, pre-commit hooks, contribution guidance — 1 is present: CI workflows. Branch protection itself is a GitHub setting rather than a file, so this is a reading of proxies and not of the rules themselves. What it does establish is that the process is not written down anywhere a new engineer would find it.

A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.

Evidence
process-scaffolding 1 of 5 markers present across 3,151 tracked files
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Organization & Key-Person Risk

03 · significant findings · ratings ↑
03.1

Bus factor 1: recent work is concentrated in one contributor

significant findings

In the last 24 months, one contributor authored three-quarters or more of 57 non-merge commits among 2 authors; across all history, more than half of 1,232. This is the single most expensive thing to discover after closing, and the repository cannot tell you whether that person is part of the transaction.

Evidence
git shortlog -sn last 24 months: top author three-quarters or more of 57 commits; bus factor 1; 2 authors
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03.5

The contributor who wrote more than half of this has not committed here for more than six months

adequate worth checking first

One person authored more than half of 1,232 commits and has not committed here for more than six months, while the repository has kept moving. The concentration figure alone would not show this. Whoever is changing this code now is not the person who wrote most of it, which is the situation an acquirer is usually told they are avoiding. The history shows only that no commits of theirs landed here, not why.

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
last-commit-by-top-author last commit more than six months ago, measured to the survey
git shortlog -sn top author more than half of 1,232 commits
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Product & Engineering Maturity

04 · strong · ratings ↑
A note that does not affect this rating
04.38

13 files still carry code deprecated more than two years ago

adequate

13 files were marked deprecated over two years ago and still are, the oldest since Nov 2020. A deprecation is a promise to remove. Ask what still depends on these, and whether removing them is scheduled.

A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.

Evidence
src/SSCMS.Core/Repositories/PluginConfigRepository.cs src/SSCMS.Core/Repositories/PluginConfigRepository.cs — deprecated since Nov 2020
src/SSCMS/Repositories/IPluginConfigRepository.cs src/SSCMS/Repositories/IPluginConfigRepository.cs — deprecated since Nov 2020
src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/resources/videojs/alt/video.core.js src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/resources/videojs/alt/video.core.js — deprecated since Mar 2022
src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/resources/videojs/alt/video.core.novtt.js src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/resources/videojs/alt/video.core.novtt.js — deprecated since Mar 2022
src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/resources/videojs/alt/video.debug.js src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/resources/videojs/alt/video.debug.js — deprecated since Mar 2022
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Security & Reliability Posture

05 · adequate · ratings ↑
05.2

None of the standard security guard rails are configured

adequate

There 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.

Evidence
guardrail-scan checked 5 kinds of guard rail across 3,151 tracked files; 0 present
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05.6

1 Dockerfile runs the application as root

adequate

No USER instruction switches away from root, so the process runs with full privileges inside the container. It is a one-line fix and an ordinary expectation, which is why its absence is worth asking about: it usually says more about whether anyone has reviewed the deployment than about this container specifically.

Evidence
no-USER-instruction Dockerfile — runs as root
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Notes that do not affect this rating
05.3

14 dependencies float, and no lockfile is committed

adequate

Dependency versions are declared as ranges and no lockfile is committed, so a build today does not necessarily produce what a build last month produced. That matters twice over in a transaction: the thing being bought cannot be reproduced exactly, and a compromised upstream release arrives without anyone choosing to take it.

A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.

Evidence
unpinned package.json:9 — ^1.3.0
unpinned package.json:10 — ^1.12.3
unpinned package.json:11 — ^5.1.0
unpinned package.json:12 — ^9.0.0
unpinned package.json:13 — ^4.0.2
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05.26

1 locked dependency has published vulnerabilities

adequate

1 of 59 locked dependencies match 1 published advisories in OSV. 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.

A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.

Evidence
src/Datory/Datory.csproj src/Datory/Datory.csproj — MySqlConnector 2.3.7: GHSA-473q-m89c-ghf8 (moderate), fixed in 2.6.1
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05.9

8 vendored components with no licence

adequate

Third-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.

A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.

Evidence
src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/codemirror src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/codemirror — 2 tracked files, no licence file
src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/custom src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/custom — 5 tracked files, no licence file
src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/jquery-1.10.2.min.js src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/jquery-1.10.2.min.js — 1 tracked files, no licence file
src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/jquery-1.10.2.min.map src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/jquery-1.10.2.min.map — 1 tracked files, no licence file
src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/video-js src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/video-js — 9 tracked files, no licence file
src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/webuploader src/SSCMS.Web/wwwroot/sitefiles/assets/lib/ueditor/third-party/webuploader — 12 tracked files, no licence file
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05.60

Relicensed: GPL-3.0 → AGPL-3.0 (2020-09-28)

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.

A note that does not affect this rating: a licence change is a fact for the first screen, and only a narrowing of rights within two years of the surveyed commit costs "strong".

Evidence
fcf93fbf2 LICENSE — GPL-3.0 from 2017-04-26
15986dc5c LICENSE — AGPL-3.0 from 2020-09-28
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Observability & Operations

06 · strong · ratings ↑
Notes that do not affect this rating
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.

A note that does not affect this rating: notes like it are common in well-run projects.

Evidence
error reporting no error reporter initialised
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06.18

5 of 5 deployed images carry no version, or `latest`

adequate

5 images in the deployment configuration are named without a version or as `latest`. A redeploy can change the software without a commit, a rollback has nothing to roll back to, and nobody can say from the repository what is running.

A note that does not affect this rating: in Borehole's calibration, this check's notes were usually true but overstated.

Evidence
docker/cluster/docker-compose.yml docker/cluster/docker-compose.yml:11 — image without a version
docker/cluster/docker-compose.yml docker/cluster/docker-compose.yml:18 — image without a version
docker/postgres/docker-compose.yml docker/postgres/docker-compose.yml:27 — image without a version
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Fit with the Acquirer

07 · not assessable · ratings ↑

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

Check it on the running system

9 checks against the running system follow from the findings above: what a buyer's engineer will try, how to run it first, and what to have ready. A paid survey of this repository includes them. See the tiers.

A paid survey of a public repository is also reviewed: a language model reads each finding against the code and withdraws only findings it judges the code contradicts, each listed with its reason. The review is a language model's reading of the findings against the code, and it can be wrong. It never adds a finding, never raises a band, and never removes a finding from a proven check or an advisory that affects the surveyed version.

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. measured No architecture or design document is in the tree, across 3,058 product files. Where does the design live, and who holds it? Answer lives in: The team01.38
  2. Is the architecture right for the next three years of the product? Answer lives in: Your architects, with the product roadmap01.39
  3. 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
  1. measured One contributor authored more than half of the commits in this history. Is that person 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. measured No threat model is in the tree of what looks like a running service. Does one exist elsewhere, and who owns it? Answer lives in: The security owner05.43
  2. What has actually broken, how often, and how badly? Answer lives in: Ticketing and chat05.41
  3. What did external testing find, and was it fixed? Answer lives in: Reports in the data room05.42
  4. 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
  1. measured Nothing in the tree backs up or restores data. How is data backed up, and has a restore ever been rehearsed? Answer lives in: The operations team06.19
  2. measured No alert rule is defined in the repository. Where are alerts defined, who receives them, and when did one last fire? Answer lives in: The alerting tool and the on-call rota06.10
  3. Are the dashboards opened, the alerts acknowledged and the pages answered? Answer lives in: Pager history and dashboard logs06.29
  4. Are the service-level objectives actually met? Answer lives in: Production metrics06.30
  5. Who carries the pager, and how often does it go off? Answer lives in: Pager exports and interviews06.31
  6. 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 JavaScript alongside (23% 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 src/, docker/. Which of your existing systems would each of those have to absorb or replace? 07.10
  3. The repository carries deployment configuration (Dockerfile and 5 more). Does that match your deployment and on-call model, or does it need rehosting first? 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 — 79 signals that ran and did not fire

Appendix: rejection log — 79 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 — 45

SignalWhat it found
04.hotspot_concentration change is spread across the codebase rather than pooling in a few filesfiles 42,900 · top5 share 0.007
04.debt_markers debt markers are sparsemarkers 64 · per kloc 0.17 · lines read 385,659
04.dependency_sprawl direct dependency counts are unremarkable
04.churn_trend rework is not rising against new worklate delete per insert 0.072 · early delete per insert 0.868
04.compat_layers little code is kept for the old wayshare 0.0 · code files 2,270 · compat files 0
06.telemetry_presence a telemetry or error-reporting library is referencednote presence only; whether anyone watches it is not visible here · matches 2
06.structured_logging a structured logging library is referencedmatches 4
06.correlation_ids a request can be followed through the logstracing False · request id sites 4
06.usage_reporting_default the product's code names no reporting hostsettings on 0 · settings off 0
06.environment_branching environment differences live in configurationsites 0
06.migrate_on_start migrations do not run at container start
03.active_contributors more than one contributor active in the trailing yearall time 14 · active 12mo 2
03.drive_by_contributors a healthy share of contributors committed more than onceshare 0.429 · authors 14 · one commit authors 6
03.second_contributor_attrition the second and third contributors are still active
02.ci_presence CI configuration is present in the working treecount 1
02.release_cadence tags are presenttags 359
02.skipped_tests few tests are switched offfocused 0 · skipped 0 · test files 55
02.ci_test_gating no test run in CI is written so that it cannot failconfigs 1
02.flaky_test_markers tests are not retried until they passtest retries 0 · suite retries 0
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 676 · share of insertions 0.0002
01.revision_depth most files were revisited after they were first writtenfiles seen 2,344 · write once share 0.273
01.build_reproducibility every base image names a versionfloating 0 · from lines 4
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 2,449
05.license_present a licence file is presentfound True
05.secrets_management_pattern no environment file is committed outside tests and examplesenv files 0
05.sql_from_strings no SQL is assembled from strings in product codefiles 0 · sites 0 · value interpolated 0
05.shell_from_strings product code does not build shell commands from stringssites 0
05.unsafe_deserialization no code-executing deserialiser in product codesites 0
05.tls_verification_off no TLS verification is switched off in product codefiles 0 · sites 0 · pinned instead 0
05.privileged_workloads no workload runs privileged or in the host's namespacessites 0 · behind a setting or built here 0
05.signing_material no signing keystore or profile is committedfiles 0
05.license_copyleft_inherited every licence found in vendored code is permissive or weak-copyleftvendored paths 70
05.license_grant_unclear the licence is recognisable as AGPL-3.0class network-copyleft · license AGPL-3.0
05.committed_native_libraries no widely used compiled library is committed to the productlibraries 0
04.dependency_churn few dependencies were added and dropped within 60 daysdependencies seen 40 · added in two years 0 · removed within 60 days 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.paid_edition no directory carries a separate paid-edition licencedirectories 0
04.releases_stopped releases keep pace with developmentmedian gap days 5.5 · days since last tag 1,268 · commits last 90 days 8
04.release_branch the newest release was cut from the branch surveyedelsewhere 0 · on branch 3 · tags in window 3
03.single_maintainer no file says one person maintains itstatements 0

Could not conclude, or did not apply — 34

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

SignalWhy
04.eol_runtimeno pinned runtime version to check
04.fixes_with_teststoo few fixes in 24 months to judge
04.fix_share_trendfewer than six busy quarters to compare
04.schema_churnno schema migrations to read
04.dependency_redundancyno JavaScript manifest to read
06.print_loggingnot assessed for C#: its logger calls are not read
06.alert_rulesno alert rules in the repository; they may live in a console
06.probes_identicalno Kubernetes probes
06.single_replicano Kubernetes deployments
06.release_markersfewer than 100 commits in the last year
06.feature_flagsno feature-flag service; flags may live elsewhere
03.knowledge_silostoo few substantial top-level directories to read ownership
03.critical_path_ownershipa team this small is 03.1's question
03.bus_factor_trendfewer than three active years to compare
03.joiners_and_leaverstoo few regular contributors to see a trend
02.revert_sharetoo few recent commits to judge how often change is undone
02.dependency_update_cadenceno lockfile to date
02.long_lived_branchestoo few merges to judge (squash and rebase leave none)
02.commit_sizetoo few recent commits
01.notebook_outputsnot a data or machine-learning repository
05.supply_chain_pinningno CI actions or pipe-to-shell installs to check
05.outbound_timeoutsnot assessed for C#, the language the product is written in: this check's patterns read other languages only
05.migration_reversibilitytoo few migrations to judge
05.resource_limitsno Kubernetes workload manifests
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_manifest_conflictno packaging manifest states a licence
04.flags_accumulatingfew or no feature flags in the history
04.api_versions_coexistingone API version is served, or none
05.advisory_recordrecord incomplete: no advisory against the project in the last 24 months; NVD: its keyword search for 'cms' is too broad to read whole (4,208 records); NVD: 1440 records name cms with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2004-1504, CVE-2004-1505, CVE-2004-1923, …)
05.project_exploitedno affecting advisory is on CISA's Known Exploited list
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