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packaged/mutex
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Mutex with a variety of providers

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mutex
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[](#mutex)

Mutex via a variety of providers

###  Health Score

32

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LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 55.6% 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 ~410 days

Recently: every ~335 days

Total

6

Last Release

1861d ago

Major Versions

0.0.4 → 1.0.02021-04-13

PHP version history (2 changes)0.0.1PHP >=5.4

0.0.4PHP >=5.5

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/299656?v=4)[Tom Kay](/maintainers/tomk)[@TomK](https://github.com/TomK)

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Top Contributors

[![TomK](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/299656?v=4)](https://github.com/TomK "TomK (10 commits)")[![Jleagle](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/381099?v=4)](https://github.com/Jleagle "Jleagle (5 commits)")[![bajb](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2241334?v=4)](https://github.com/bajb "bajb (2 commits)")[![rgooding](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3207236?v=4)](https://github.com/rgooding "rgooding (1 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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