jakewharton/butterknife vs newbee-ltd/newbee-mall
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, butterknife and newbee-mall both show mixed maintenance signals. butterknife last saw a commit 3 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while newbee-mall last saw a commit 10 months ago with 5+ active contributors. butterknife is Apache-2.0-licensed while newbee-mall is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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jakewharton/butterknife
Stale — last commit 3y ago
last commit was 3y ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 3y ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠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
newbee-ltd/newbee-mall
Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; CI evidence incomplete…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 6mo ago; CI evidence incomplete…
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 50% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 6mo ago
- ✓5 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| butterknife | newbee-mall | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 25,377 | 11,553 |
| Last commit | 3y ago | 10mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 119 | 20 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | Unknown |
| Test coverage | 57% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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