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50sq/guardian
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Laravel 5.1 ACL DB layer

015PHP

Since Sep 12Pushed 10y ago2 watchersCompare

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Guardian
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[](#guardian)

###  Health Score

21

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LowBetter than 18% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 83.3% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6ba5928b5b1e6181eeabdcca8d393b8ecabcc482b62caf3014158c5d5805da72?d=identicon)[ninjaparade](/maintainers/ninjaparade)

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Top Contributors

[![ninjaparade](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/228899?v=4)](https://github.com/ninjaparade "ninjaparade (5 commits)")[![ipalaus](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/248183?v=4)](https://github.com/ipalaus "ipalaus (1 commits)")

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