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nokitakaze/mutex
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Mutex implementation

v0.3.0(6y ago)0408[1 issues](https://github.com/nokitakaze/php-mutex/issues)2Apache-2.0PHPPHP ^7.1 | ^8.0.0CI failing

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Mutex implementation
====================

[](#mutex-implementation)

Current status
--------------

[](#current-status)

### General

[](#general)

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Usage
-----

[](#usage)

At first

```
composer require nokitakaze/mutex
```

And then

```
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
$mutex = new FileMutex([
    'name' => 'foobar',
]);
```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 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 ~107 days

Recently: every ~223 days

Total

10

Last Release

2247d ago

PHP version history (4 changes)v0.1.3PHP ~5.6.0 || >=7.0.9

v0.1.7PHP ^5.6 | ^7.0.9

v0.1.8PHP ^5.4 | ^7.0.9

v0.3.0PHP ^7.1 | ^8.0.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/65bb9967baf399044eb2d9f231fc3ac90b58677e36083f4ae3aa9b59665b6858?d=identicon)[nokitakaze](/maintainers/nokitakaze)

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Top Contributors

[![nokitakaze](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9131758?v=4)](https://github.com/nokitakaze "nokitakaze (20 commits)")

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Tags

mutex

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

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