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portonefive/essentials
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5.5.0(8y ago)0337PHPPHP >=7.0.0

Since Feb 23Pushed 8y ago4 watchersCompare

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###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 57% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 54.5% 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 ~86 days

Recently: every ~0 days

Total

6

Last Release

3171d ago

Major Versions

2.0 → 5.3.x-dev2017-10-25

PHP version history (2 changes)2.0PHP >=5.4.0

5.5.0PHP >=7.0.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![skylerfenn](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5459594?v=4)](https://github.com/skylerfenn "skylerfenn (6 commits)")[![jeffberry](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3323635?v=4)](https://github.com/jeffberry "jeffberry (5 commits)")

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