jakewharton/butterknife vs lihengming/spring-boot-api-project-seed
jakewharton/butterknife shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, butterknife shows healthier maintenance signals than spring-boot-api-project-seed. butterknife rates Healthy overall while spring-boot-api-project-seed rates Concerns. butterknife last saw a commit 2 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while spring-boot-api-project-seed last saw a commit 2 years ago with 3+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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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
lihengming/spring-boot-api-project-seed →
Stale and unlicensed — last commit 2y ago
no license — legally unclear; last commit was 2y ago…
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 2y ago…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| butterknife | spring-boot-api-project-seed | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 25,377 | 9,707 |
| Last commit | 2y ago | 2y ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | — |
| Open issues | 119 | 112 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 57% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Concerns signals |
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