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northern/core
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Common Application Core.

1.2.11(10y ago)0202MITPHPPHP >=5.3.3

Since Feb 28Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare

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Core
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[](#core)

Common Application Core

###  Health Score

31

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LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

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 ~8 days

Recently: every ~18 days

Total

42

Last Release

3738d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/547843?v=4)[Luke Schreur](/maintainers/northern)[@northern](https://github.com/northern)

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Top Contributors

[![northern](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/547843?v=4)](https://github.com/northern "northern (55 commits)")

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Tags

commoncorenorthern

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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