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jakewharton/butterknife vs yuliskov/smarttube

jakewharton/butterknife shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, butterknife shows healthier maintenance signals than smarttube. butterknife rates Healthy overall while smarttube rates Mixed. butterknife last saw a commit 2 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while smarttube last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors. butterknife is Apache-2.0-licensed while smarttube is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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jakewharton/butterknife

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

yuliskov/smarttube

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

MixedDependency

top contributor handles 97% of recent commits; no tests detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
  • No test directory detected
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 4 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: diversify commit ownership (top <90%)

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

butterknifesmarttube
Stars25,37730,059
Last commit2y ago1mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Open issues119713
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage57%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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