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nonsapiens/faker-news
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A Laravel library to extend Faker to allow for the realistic creation of news articles for use in seeding and testing

v1.0.2(3y ago)0791↓95%PHPPHP >=7.1.0

Since Jun 12Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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The README for this package hasn't been synced yet. View it on [GitHub](https://github.com/nonsapiens/faker-news).

###  Health Score

23

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LowBetter than 25% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity42

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 80% 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 ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

1164d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6d8b2540548fd4037017a3177a24b230506c67ca96d5ed870cd82153726e597f?d=identicon)[nonsapiens](/maintainers/nonsapiens)

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Top Contributors

[![stuartsteedman](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/69784087?v=4)](https://github.com/stuartsteedman "stuartsteedman (4 commits)")[![nonsapiens](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9744534?v=4)](https://github.com/nonsapiens "nonsapiens (1 commits)")

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