jakewharton/butterknife vs xuchengsheng/spring-reading
jakewharton/butterknife shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, butterknife shows healthier maintenance signals than spring-reading. butterknife rates Healthy overall while spring-reading rates Mixed. butterknife last saw a commit 2 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while spring-reading last saw a commit 1 year ago with 3+ active contributors. butterknife is Apache-2.0-licensed while spring-reading is MIT-licensed. 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
xuchengsheng/spring-reading →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
last commit was 2y ago; top contributor handles 98% of recent commits…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 98% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days; diversify commit ownership (top <90%)
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → 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 | spring-reading | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 25,377 | 9,919 |
| Last commit | 2y ago | 1y ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 119 | 36 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 57% | 1% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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