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laurent22/joplin vs siyuan-note/siyuan

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, joplin and siyuan both show mixed maintenance signals. joplin was committed to 4 days ago with 11+ active contributors, while siyuan was committed to 4 days ago with 2+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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laurent22/joplin

Mixed

Evidence incomplete — review before adopting

MixedDependency

license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable

MixedFork & modify

license evidence incomplete

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete…

  • Could not verify license from the available repository evidence
  • Last commit today
  • 11 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 44% of recent commits)
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

siyuan-note/siyuan

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 94% of recent commits…

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 94% of recent commits
  • AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit today
  • 2 active contributors
  • AGPL-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)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

joplinsiyuan
Stars56,34546,320
Last commit4d ago4d ago
LicenseUnknownAGPL-3.0
Open issues63919
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage81%49%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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