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ntzwbr/herbie
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Herbie is a flat-file CMS & blog system. Simple installation - no database - just text files.

v0.8.5(10y ago)143BSD-3-ClausePHP >=5.4.0

Since Nov 11Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/Netzweberei/herbie)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/ntzwbr/herbie)[ Docs](http://www.getherbie.org)[ RSS](/packages/ntzwbr-herbie/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 1mo ago

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###  Health Score

26

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LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity56

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 90.5% 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 ~47 days

Total

11

Last Release

3722d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a3acc94002e25d2c7444986fa94210bf80428dc8e185a8f0cd62c4f01715f583?d=identicon)[Netzweberei](/maintainers/Netzweberei)

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Top Contributors

[![tbreuss](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1334161?v=4)](https://github.com/tbreuss "tbreuss (588 commits)")[![Netzweberei](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4253587?v=4)](https://github.com/Netzweberei "Netzweberei (62 commits)")

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Tags

cmsblogflat fileherbie

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