hediet/vscode-drawio vs microsoft/vscode
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, vscode-drawio and vscode both show healthy maintenance signals. vscode-drawio was committed to 3 weeks ago with 16+ active contributors, while vscode was committed to 1 week ago with 29+ active contributors. vscode-drawio is GPL-3.0-licensed while vscode is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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hediet/vscode-drawio
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; 3 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓16 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 42% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Token-Permissions" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
microsoft/vscode
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓29+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 26% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| vscode-drawio | vscode | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 9,480 | 190,815 |
| Last commit | 24d ago | 13d ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 179 | 20,482 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 5% | 64% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | B | A |
| Cycles | 3 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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