siyuan-note/siyuan vs triliumnext/notes
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, siyuan and notes both show mixed maintenance signals. siyuan was committed to 4 days ago with 2+ active contributors, while notes last saw a commit 1 year ago with 6+ active contributors. Both use the AGPL-3.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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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
triliumnext/notes
Stale — last commit 1y ago
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 1y ago
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 78% of recent commits
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ✓6 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| siyuan | notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 46,320 | 2,926 |
| Last commit | 4d ago | 1y ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 19 | 1 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 49% | 15% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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