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Software health reportschema 0.16.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-07-21 03:03 UTC

Toblerity / Fiona

Fiona reads and writes geographic data files

Python · CythonBSD-3-Clause★ 1,245 stars⑂ 220 forkssince Dec 2011View on GitHub ↗
KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined
#python#gis#vector#gdal#ogr#cli#cython

Toblerity/Fiona holds a health index of 65 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. It scores highest on Community & Adoption (76/100) and lowest on Vitality (29/100). It was last updated 515 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

65
overall / 100
Good

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

65
Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met
Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps
Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable
Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended
Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas
At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution
Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 60 is calibrated to 65 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

ToblerityOrganization
33 followers8 public repossince Jun 2011

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
PyPIFiona1.10.1-117672 days agogisvectorfeaturedata

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

29At Risk · 21% of overall

Development activity

3Critical
How it's scored
0/36Push recency — last push 515 days ago
0/36Commit cadence — 0/52 weeks with commits
0/18Commit volume — 0 commits in the last year
3/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 4 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 3
Inputs used
commits_last_year0
human_commit_share—
days_since_last_push515
active_weeks_last_year0

Release discipline

68Good
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 25 releases published
7.2/36Release recency — latest release 672 days ago
27/27Release cadence — a release every ~37.8 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count25
latest_release_tag1.10.1
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release672
mean_days_between_releases37.8
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

76Good · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

79Good
How it's scored
50.2/60Stars — 1,245 stars
19.5/25Forks — 220 forks
9.1/15Watchers — 45 watchers
Inputs used
forks220
stars1,245
watchers45
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history

Community health

73Good
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (BSD-3-Clause)
0/18CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5Code of conduct
7.2/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges—
has_contributingno
has_issue_templateyes
has_code_of_conductyes
readme_badge_services—
has_pull_request_templateno

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

68Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

41Weak
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
8.2/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 64% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 69 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 37 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled69
top_contributor_share0.637

Issue & PR responsiveness

85Excellent
How it's scored
39.7/42Issue resolution — 94% of issues closed
25.1/30PR acceptance — 527/629 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
9/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 12/20 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6
Inputs used
merged_prs527
open_issues45
closed_issues780
prs_merged_7d—
prs_decided_7d—
prs_merged_30d—
prs_decided_30d—
issue_closed_ratio0.945
closed_unmerged_prs102
first_time_authors_30d—
first_time_prs_merged_30d—
first_time_prs_decided_30d—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

75Good
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20Verified domain — verified-domain status not read for this organization
11/25Owner reach — 33 followers of Toblerity
18.9/25Track record — 8 public repos, account ~15 yr old
Inputs used
followers33
owner_typeOrganization
is_verified—
owner_loginToblerity
public_repos8
account_age_days5,510
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Package maintenance

79Good
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on pypi
14/35Publish recency — latest publish 672 days ago
20/20Version history — 117 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesFiona
ecosystemspypi
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish672

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

69Good · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

48Weak
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 4 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
0/16Linter config
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
0/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 0 out of 26 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configno
has_precommit_configno

Documentation

100Exceptional
How it's scored
30/30README
25/25Documentation directory
15/15Documentation / homepage site — https://fiona.readthedocs.io/
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 7 topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicspython, gis, vector, gdal, ogr, cli, cython
has_wikiyes
homepagehttps://fiona.readthedocs.io/
docs_sitehttps://fiona.readthedocs.io/
has_readmeyes
has_docs_diryes
has_descriptionyes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

67Good · 16% of overall

Security posture

59Moderate
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5Branch-Protection — no data
0/2.5CI-Tests — 0 out of 26 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
4.5/7.5Code-Review — Found 12/20 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 37 contributing companies or organizations
10/10Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
2.2/7.5Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 4 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 3
0/5Packaging — no data
1/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2
0/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
5/5Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
7.5/7.5Token-Permissions — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
0/7.5Vulnerabilities — 15 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated15
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive3
scorecard_aggregate5.9
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional
How it's scored
35/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
25/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — no indirect dependency carries a known advisory
0/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories0
affected_packages0
assessed_packages5
unassessed_packages0
affected_by_severitynone
direct_affected_packages0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched the pypi:Fiona@1.10.1 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 5 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

49Weak · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

1Critical
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
0/40Legible commit history — no data
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share—
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

63Moderate
How it's scored
18/18One-command bootstrap — Makefile, docs/Makefile
22/22Automated tests
0/11Lint / format config
0/11Static type checking
10/10Reproducible environment — Dockerfile
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no data
5/8Automated maintenance — dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits
2/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfiles—
has_dockerfileyes
typed_languageno
bootstrap_filesMakefile, docs/Makefile
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configno
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share—
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice. Remaining weights renormalized.

Code legibility for models

55Moderate
How it's scored
0/45Type-checkable code — Python without a type-check config
55/55Manageable file sizes — 0/121 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languagePython
largest_source_bytes39,240
source_files_sampled121
oversized_source_files0

Machine-readable interfaces

100Exceptional
How it's scored
0/40API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software
0/20MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software
40/40Runnable examples — examples
Inputs used
example_dirsexamples
has_mcp_signalno
api_schema_files—
interfaces_expected_of—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.

Key facts

1,245GitHub stars
69contributors
0commits, last 12 months
515days since last push
25releases
1bus factor
45open issues
PyPIpackage ecosystems

More detail

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.9 / 10
5.9aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-07-21 03:03 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
n/aBranch-Protectioninternal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md
0CI-Tests0 out of 26 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
6Code-ReviewFound 12/20 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6
10Contributorsproject has 37 contributing companies or organizations
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
10Dependency-Update-Toolupdate tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
3Maintained0 commit(s) and 4 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 3
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
2Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 2
0SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
10Security-Policysecurity policy file detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
10Token-PermissionsGitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege
0Vulnerabilities15 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 6
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
PyPIattrs>=19.2.0pyproject.toml
PyPIcertifi—pyproject.toml
PyPIclick~=8.0pyproject.toml
PyPIclick-plugins>=1.0pyproject.toml
PyPIcligj>=0.5pyproject.toml
PyPIimportlib-metadata—pyproject.toml
All dependencies 52

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 8 direct and 44 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
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PyPIcertifi—direct
PyPIcertifi2024.7.4direct
PyPIclick—direct
PyPIclick8.1.7direct
PyPIclick-plugins—direct
PyPIcligj—direct
PyPIimportlib-metadata—direct
PyPIaiohttp—indirect
PyPIalabaster0.7.13indirect
PyPIbabel2.12.1indirect
PyPIboto3—indirect
PyPIcharset-normalizer3.2.0indirect
PyPIcolorama0.4.6indirect
PyPIcommonmark0.9.1indirect
PyPIcoverage—indirect
PyPIcoveralls—indirect
PyPIcython—indirect
PyPIdocutils0.19indirect
PyPIfsspec—indirect
PyPIidna3.7indirect
PyPIimagesize1.4.1indirect
PyPIjinja23.1.4indirect
PyPImarkupsafe2.1.3indirect
PyPIpackaging23.1indirect
PyPIpydantic1.10.13indirect
PyPIpygments2.16.1indirect
PyPIpyparsing—indirect
PyPIpytest—indirect
PyPIpytest-cov—indirect
PyPIpytz2022.6indirect
PyPIrequests—indirect
PyPIrequests2.32.0indirect
PyPIrich12.6.0indirect
PyPIrstcheck6.1.2indirect
PyPIrstcheck-core1.0.3indirect
PyPIsetuptools—indirect
PyPIshapely—indirect
PyPIshellingham1.5.3indirect
PyPIsnowballstemmer2.2.0indirect
PyPIsphinx7.2.5indirect
PyPIsphinxcontrib-applehelp1.0.7indirect
PyPIsphinxcontrib-devhelp1.0.5indirect
PyPIsphinxcontrib-htmlhelp2.0.4indirect
PyPIsphinxcontrib-jsmath1.0.1indirect
PyPIsphinxcontrib-qthelp1.0.6indirect
PyPIsphinxcontrib-serializinghtml1.1.9indirect
PyPItyper0.7.0indirect
PyPItypes-docutils0.19.1.9indirect
PyPItyping-extensions4.7.1indirect
PyPIurllib32.2.2indirect
PyPIwheel—indirect
Dependency advisories 0

Installing pypi:Fiona@1.10.1 pulls in 5 packages, direct and transitive: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct dependencies.

No known advisories affect the assessed dependencies.

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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