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jakewharton/butterknife vs pqpo/smartcropper

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, butterknife and smartcropper both show mixed maintenance signals. butterknife last saw a commit 3 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while smartcropper last saw a commit 1 month ago with 11+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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jakewharton/butterknife

Mixed

Stale — last commit 3y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 3y ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

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

pqpo/smartcropper

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

MixedDependency

no tests detected in the complete Git tree; no CI workflows detected…

MixedFork & modify

no tests detected in the complete Git tree; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected…

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 64% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No tests detected in the complete Git tree
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 4w ago
  • 11 active contributors

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: add a test suite
  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

butterknifesmartcropper
Stars25,3774,132
Last commit3y ago1mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0Unknown
Open issues11938
Has testsNo
Has CINo
Test coverage57%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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