devinus/poolboy

This system is a process pool management library, likely for Erlang, that manages resource pooling and worker lifecycle. It provides a modernized API for checking out and checking in workers, supporting both blocking and non-blocking operations with configurable timeouts. The implementation has been refactored to use gen\_server instead of gen\_fsm and includes comprehensive property-based testing to verify pool behavior under various conditions.

The project has migrated its build tooling from Rebar/Rebar2 to Rebar3, introducing a new rebar.config and rebar.lock file while updating the Makefile to invoke rebar3 commands. Continuous integration is now configured via .travis.yml to test against Erlang/OTP versions 17.4 through 21.0.4. Additionally, the software license has been changed to the ISC License, and a .editorconfig file has been added to standardize code formatting.

(repo-wide) · high confidence

The core poolboy module has been refactored from the legacy gen\_fsm behavior to gen\_server, which changes the internal process model but maintains a compatible external API. This change introduces new function signatures for checkout (supporting blocking/non-blocking and timeout parameters), adds a transaction helper for automatic checkin, and provides a child\_spec generator that supports both the legacy tuple format and the modern map format for OTP 21+ compatibility. Additionally, the application metadata has been updated to version 1.5.2, and the build structure has been moved to src/ with rebar3 conventions.

src · high confidence

Added a new property-based test suite using EQC (Equivalence Checking) to verify the behavior of the poolboy library under various conditions, including sequential and parallel execution models. Additionally, new unit tests were added to cover specific scenarios such as pool startup, overflow handling, worker death, transaction timeouts, and strategy behaviors (LIFO/FIFO). A test worker module was also introduced to support these tests.

test · high confidence

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

• CAI 54 → 55 (+1.1)
• Rubric changed (rubric-2026.08.19 → rubric-2026.09.15) — scores are not directly comparable.

• Code Health 89 → 96 (+6.9)
• Architecture 69 → 69 (+0.0)
• Maturity 37 → 49 (+12.3)
• Readiness 58 → 50 (-8.4)
• Security 100 → 63 (-36.7)

• Coverage not included — suite not readable by the collector
• Dependency hygiene not measured — dependency manifest found but not parsed for hygiene
• No exposed public API
• Test reliability not included
• complexity unreadable for .erl — churn × complexity hotspots could not be measured
• dormant codebase — no living knowledge left to concentrate

• Coverage not measured — no coverage collector is wired up
• Documentation: no installation or build instructions (README.md)
• Documentation: no usage examples (README.md)
• No SBOM
• No artifact signing
• No build provenance
• Rotate the exposed credentials — git history can't be un-committed
• Secret: generic-api-key (.travis.yml)
• XxxComment (test/poolboy_tests.erl)
• XxxComment (test/poolboy_tests.erl)

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

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