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jmfontaine/sherpa
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Sherpa is your friendly and tireless helper

14PHP

Since Jul 19Pushed 13y ago1 watchersCompare

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Sherpa is your friendly and tireless helper.

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/7e5e8bdd3c889520843670ff15b19a87dd328374f0bb65273ee37545aaf228ab/68747470733a2f2f7365637572652e7472617669732d63692e6f72672f6a6d666f6e7461696e652f7368657270612e706e673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](http://travis-ci.org/jmfontaine/sherpa)

###  Health Score

20

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LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

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.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/174728?v=4)[Jean-Marc Fontaine](/maintainers/jmfontaine)[@jmfontaine](https://github.com/jmfontaine)

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Top Contributors

[![jmfontaine](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/174728?v=4)](https://github.com/jmfontaine "jmfontaine (47 commits)")

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