h2pl/javatutorial vs jakewharton/butterknife
jakewharton/butterknife shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, butterknife shows healthier maintenance signals than javatutorial. butterknife rates Healthy overall while javatutorial rates Mixed. javatutorial last saw a commit 1 year ago with 3+ active contributors, while butterknife last saw a commit 2 years ago with 17+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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h2pl/javatutorial →
Slowing — last commit 12mo ago
no license — legally unclear; top contributor handles 98% of recent commits…
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 12mo ago…
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 12mo ago
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 98% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓Last commit 12mo ago
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
jakewharton/butterknife →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| javatutorial | butterknife | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 7,129 | 25,377 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 2y ago |
| License | — | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 9 | 119 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 50% | 57% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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