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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-10-09 19:11 UTC

stephanstapel / ZUGFeRD-csharp

Open source C# e-invoicing library. Enables creating and reading ZUGFeRD invoices.

C#Apache-2.0★ 395 stars⑂ 193 forkssince Nov 2013View on GitHub ↗

stephanstapel/ZUGFeRD-csharp holds a health index of 81 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Vitality (83/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (51/100). It was last updated today. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

81
overall / 100
Excellent

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.

81
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 69 is calibrated to 81 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

StephanPersonal account
37 followers19 public repossince Nov 2012

This repository is owned by a personal account. A single-owner project carries more continuity risk than an organization-backed one.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
NuGetZUGFeRD-csharp18.0.1-1000 days agozugferdxmlxrechnungpdfinvoice
NuGetZUGFeRD.PDF-csharp18.0.0-3197 days ago—

Metrics by category

Vitality

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

83Excellent · 21% of overall
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 0 days ago
27.7/36Commit cadence — 40/52 weeks with commits
18/18Commit volume — 240 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year240
human_commit_share0.98
days_since_last_push0
active_weeks_last_year40
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 43 releases published
16.2/36Release recency — latest release 197 days ago
19.8/27Release cadence — a release every ~51.4 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count43
latest_release_tag18.0.0
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release197
mean_days_between_releases51.4
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?

68Good · 17% of overall
How it's scored
42.1/60Stars — 395 stars
19/25Forks — 193 forks
8/15Watchers — 28 watchers
Inputs used
forks193
stars395
watchers28
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (Apache-2.0)
0/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
6.3/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges0
has_contributingno
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_services—
has_pull_request_templateyes
How it's scored
65/80Total downloads — 1,783,077 downloads all-time across nuget
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packagesZUGFeRD-csharp, ZUGFeRD.PDF-csharp
dependents—
ecosystemsnuget
total_downloads1,783,077
monthly_downloads—
unverified_packages_excluded—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

Sustainability & Governance

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

67Good · 23% of overall
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
6.5/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 71% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 97 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 7 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled97
top_contributor_share0.713
How it's scored
0/42Issue resolution — no issues or no data
25.3/30PR acceptance — 303/359 decided PRs merged
13/13Newcomer PR acceptance — 1/1 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d
12/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 10/12 approved changesets -- score normalized to 8
Inputs used
merged_prs303
open_issues0
closed_issues0
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d5
prs_decided_30d5
issue_closed_ratio—
closed_unmerged_prs56
first_time_authors_30d1
first_time_prs_merged_30d1
first_time_prs_decided_30d1
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Issue resolution. Remaining weights renormalized.
How it's scored
10/30Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
11.4/25Owner reach — 37 followers of stephanstapel
21.5/25Track record — 19 public repos, account ~13 yr old
Inputs used
followers37
owner_typeUser
is_verified—
owner_loginstephanstapel
public_repos19
account_age_days5,063
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 2 package(s) on nuget
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 0 days ago
20/20Version history — 100 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesZUGFeRD-csharp, ZUGFeRD.PDF-csharp
ecosystemsnuget
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish0

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

59Moderate · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 2 workflow(s)
0/24Tests present
0/16Linter config
0/9.6Pre-commit hooks
6.4/6.4.editorconfig
18/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 9 out of 10 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsno
has_editorconfigyes
has_linter_configno
has_precommit_configno
How it's scored
30/30README
25/25Documentation directory
0/15Documentation / homepage site
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 6 topics
0/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicscsharp, csharp-library, ebusiness, invoice, invoicing, zugferd
has_wikino
homepage—
docs_site—
has_readmeyes
has_docs_diryes
has_descriptionyes

Security

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

72Good · 16% of overall
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
2.2/7.5Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
2.2/2.5CI-Tests — 9 out of 10 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
6/7.5Code-Review — Found 10/12 approved changesets -- score normalized to 8
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 7 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
7.5/7.5Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5Packaging — no data
0/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
5/5SAST — SAST tool is run on all commits
0/5Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
7.5/7.5Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated16
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive2
scorecard_aggregate6.5
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): 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
0/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
0/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories0
affected_packages0
assessed_packages15
unassessed_packages0
affected_by_severitynone
direct_affected_packages0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 15 resolved dependencies against OSV. This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so the repository dependency graph was assessed instead. That graph mixes development and test pins with shipped dependencies, so only the declared runtime dependencies are scored; transitive findings are reported as context and excluded from the score. 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.

51Moderate · 4% of overall
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
22.9/40Legible commit history — 42 of 98 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.429
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
How it's scored
12.6/18One-command bootstrap — ZUGFeRD.Excel.Test/ZUGFeRD.Excel.Test.csproj, ZUGFeRD.Excel/ZUGFeRD.Excel.csproj, ZUGFeRD.PDF.Test/ZUGFeRD.PDF.Test.csproj (toolchain convention, no task runner)
0/22Automated tests
0/11Lint / format config
11/11Static type checking — C# (statically typed)
0/10Reproducible environment
4/10Demonstrated agent practice — 2 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
8/8Automated maintenance — 2 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsno
lockfiles—
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageyes
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configno
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0.02
toolchain_manifestsZUGFeRD.Excel.Test/ZUGFeRD.Excel.Test.csproj, ZUGFeRD.Excel/ZUGFeRD.Excel.csproj, ZUGFeRD.PDF.Test/ZUGFeRD.PDF.Test.csproj, ZUGFeRD.PDF/ZUGFeRD.PDF.csproj, ZUGFeRD.Render.Demo/ZUGFeRD.Render.Demo.csproj, ZUGFeRD.Render/ZUGFeRD.Render.csproj, ZUGFeRD.Test/ZUGFeRD.Test.csproj, ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRD.csproj
dependency_bot_commit_share0.02
How it's scored
45/45Type-checkable code — C# (statically typed)
51.5/55Manageable file sizes — 8/124 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languageC#
largest_source_bytes193,209
source_files_sampled124
oversized_source_files8
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, samples
Inputs used
example_dirsexamples, samples
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

395GitHub stars
97contributors
240commits, last 12 months
0days since last push
43releases
1bus factor
0open issues
NuGetpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

  • Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 193 ⇿
0Stars
193Forks
43Releases

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

0408012016020019162016-122021-112026-10
Major 15Minor 18Patch 7

Each point covers 9 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 6.5 / 10
6.5aggregate

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 · 2026-10-09 19:10 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
3Branch-Protectionbranch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
9CI-Tests9 out of 10 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 9
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
8Code-ReviewFound 10/12 approved changesets -- score normalized to 8
10Contributorsproject has 7 contributing companies or organizations
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
10Dependency-Update-Toolupdate tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
10Maintained30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
0Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
10SASTSAST tool is run on all commits
0Security-Policysecurity policy file not detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
0Token-Permissionsdetected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
10Vulnerabilities0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 16
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
NuGetMono.Options6.12.0.148ZUGFeRD.Excel.Test/ZUGFeRD.Excel.Test.csproj
NuGetEPPlus7.5.0ZUGFeRD.Excel/ZUGFeRD.Excel.csproj
NuGetMicrosoft.NET.Test.Sdk17.12.0ZUGFeRD.PDF.Test/ZUGFeRD.PDF.Test.csproj
NuGetMSTest3.6.3ZUGFeRD.PDF.Test/ZUGFeRD.PDF.Test.csproj
NuGetPDFsharp-extended1.3.0ZUGFeRD.PDF/ZUGFeRD.PDF.csproj
NuGetZUGFeRD-csharp18.0.0ZUGFeRD.PDF/ZUGFeRD.PDF.csproj
NuGetSystem.Text.Encoding.CodePages4.7.1ZUGFeRD.PDF/ZUGFeRD.PDF.csproj
NuGetSystem.Text.Encoding.CodePages4.7.1ZUGFeRD.PDF/ZUGFeRD.PDF.csproj
NuGetSystem.Text.Encoding.CodePages8.0.0ZUGFeRD.PDF/ZUGFeRD.PDF.csproj
NuGetScriban7.2.2ZUGFeRD.Render/ZUGFeRD.Render.csproj
NuGetZUGFeRD-csharp18.0.0ZUGFeRD.Render/ZUGFeRD.Render.csproj
NuGetMicrosoft.NET.Test.Sdk18.0.1ZUGFeRD.Test/ZUGFeRD.Test.csproj
NuGetMSTest.TestAdapter4.0.2ZUGFeRD.Test/ZUGFeRD.Test.csproj
NuGetMSTest.TestFramework4.0.2ZUGFeRD.Test/ZUGFeRD.Test.csproj
NuGetcoverlet.collector6.0.4ZUGFeRD.Test/ZUGFeRD.Test.csproj
NuGetMicrosoft.SourceLink.GitHub8.0.0ZUGFeRD/ZUGFeRD.csproj
All dependencies 15

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 15 direct and 0 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
NuGetcoverlet.collector6.0.4direct
NuGetEPPlus7.5.0direct
NuGetMicrosoft.NET.Test.Sdk17.12.0direct
NuGetMicrosoft.NET.Test.Sdk18.0.1direct
NuGetMicrosoft.SourceLink.GitHub8.0.0direct
NuGetMono.Options6.12.0.148direct
NuGetMSTest3.6.3direct
NuGetMSTest.TestAdapter4.0.2direct
NuGetMSTest.TestFramework2.1.2direct
NuGetMSTest.TestFramework4.0.2direct
NuGetPDFsharp-extended1.3.0direct
NuGetScriban7.2.2direct
NuGetSystem.Text.Encoding.CodePages4.7.1direct
NuGetSystem.Text.Encoding.CodePages8.0.0direct
NuGetZUGFeRD-csharp18.0.0direct
Dependency advisories 0

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 15 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct.

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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