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hediet/vscode-drawio vs nilbuild/developer-roadmap

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, vscode-drawio and developer-roadmap both show mixed maintenance signals. vscode-drawio last saw a commit 3 months ago with 18+ active contributors, while developer-roadmap was committed to 3 days ago with 17+ active contributors. vscode-drawio is GPL-3.0-licensed while developer-roadmap is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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hediet/vscode-drawio

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 58% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Last commit 7w ago
  • 18 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard

nilbuild/developer-roadmap

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); no tests detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; 8 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 73% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • No test directory detected
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 17 active contributors
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

vscode-drawiodeveloper-roadmap
Stars9,428357,584
Last commit3mo ago3d ago
LicenseGPL-3.0Other
Open issues16718
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage8%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles8
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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