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
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
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
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 94% of recent commits…
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
- ⚠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
| joplin | siyuan | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 56,345 | 46,320 |
| Last commit | 4d ago | 4d ago |
| License | Unknown | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 639 | 19 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 81% | 49% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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