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chevron/kernel
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a subset of tools for application development

v0.14.0(9y ago)01162BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP >=5.5

Since Jul 29Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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chevron/kernel
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[](#chevronkernel)

So Kernel is still unstable and as much as I would like to tag a v1, I'm going to wait--not sure how long. However, I've made some I'm-not-going-to-code-that decisions that deserve an explanation.

For starters, the original idea is to have a handful of (decoupled) components that when combined, would power a web site. In development, I looked over Aura and a few other frameworks to see how they did it. In trying to write code that was a poor man's clone of any one system I wrestled with how I wanted Kernel to function.

To view how this module can interact with it's siblings try [chev](https://github.com/chevronphp/chev).

See [packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/chevron/kernel) for version/installation info.

[![Latest Stable Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5e888ace0cd4c94352d20ed63772ccad3a1fa5e8fe395aedb46118fe90225e92/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f63686576726f6e2f6b65726e656c2f762f737461626c652e737667)](https://packagist.org/packages/chevron/kernel)[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a6f998ccd3ad60d63229120e813e1c317caa6feca5cb5e567381d804dea5f984/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f63686576726f6e7068702f6b65726e656c2e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/chevronphp/kernel)

###  Health Score

27

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LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~34 days

Recently: every ~152 days

Total

23

Last Release

3609d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.4.0

v0.3.2PHP >=5.4

v0.12.0PHP >=5.5

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

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