jakewharton/butterknife vs tencent/shadow
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, butterknife and shadow both show mixed maintenance signals. butterknife last saw a commit 3 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while shadow last saw a commit 5 months ago with 11+ active contributors. butterknife is Apache-2.0-licensed while shadow is BSD-3-Clause-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
tencent/shadow
Slowing — last commit 5mo 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.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 5mo ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 83% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 5mo ago
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓BSD-3-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| butterknife | shadow | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 25,377 | 7,786 |
| Last commit | 3y ago | 5mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Open issues | 119 | 69 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 57% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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