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maba/gentle-force
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Library for limiting both brute-force attempts and ordinary requests, using leaky/token bucket algorithm, based on Redis

0.3.1(4y ago)45591.0k—3.9%[4 PRs](https://github.com/mariusbalcytis/gentle-force/pulls)2MITPHP ^7.1 | ^8.0

Since May 10Compare

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###  Health Score

39

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LowBetter than 86% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity45

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 85.7% 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 ~313 days

Recently: every ~392 days

Total

6

Last Release

1726d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)0.1.0PHP ^5.5 | ^7.0

0.3.1PHP ^7.1 | ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6e131c9aa5f5a4fc3cc2f5e01b377ef33bbc3468acc95ff890fc6e8353d9cf67?d=identicon)[mariusbalcytis](/maintainers/mariusbalcytis)

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Top Contributors

[![mariusbalcytis](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1590072?v=4)](https://github.com/mariusbalcytis "mariusbalcytis (12 commits)")[![mSprunskas](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4427922?v=4)](https://github.com/mSprunskas "mSprunskas (1 commits)")[![rmanibus](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10419172?v=4)](https://github.com/rmanibus "rmanibus (1 commits)")

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Tags

securityrate-limiterrate limitthrottlerate limitingbrute forcetoken bucketDOS protectionbruteforceleaky bucketbrute force protectionthreshold

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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