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huangyanbin/smarttable vs jakewharton/butterknife

jakewharton/butterknife shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, butterknife shows healthier maintenance signals than smarttable. butterknife rates Healthy overall while smarttable rates Concerns. smarttable last saw a commit 4 years ago with 1+ active contributor, 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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huangyanbin/smarttable

Concerns

Looks unmaintained — solo project with stale commits

ConcernsDependency

no license — legally unclear; last commit was 4y ago…

ConcernsFork & modify

no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

ConcernsDeploy as-is

no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 4y ago…

  • Stale — last commit 4y ago
  • Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
  • No license — legally unclear to depend on
  • No CI workflows detected
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
  • Fork & modify ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file
  • Deploy as-is ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

jakewharton/butterknife

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

smarttablebutterknife
Stars5,22425,377
Last commit4y ago2y ago
LicenseApache-2.0
Open issues207119
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage5%57%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineConcerns signalsHealthy signals

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