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spriebsch/longbow
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Longbow
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[](#longbow)

Aim high and shoot far with Longbow, the PHP event framework.

(c) by Stefan Priebsch.

###  Health Score

39

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LowBetter than 86% of packages

Maintenance57

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 97.1% 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 ~11 days

Recently: every ~30 days

Total

14

Last Release

286d ago

Major Versions

4.5.1 → 5.0.02025-03-16

5.5.0 → 6.0.02025-04-29

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2064fee9073bee511de4bec7616a42c24e79c2dd8312f0363b5b3850f00b83ab?d=identicon)[spriebsch](/maintainers/spriebsch)

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Top Contributors

[![spriebsch](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/61342?v=4)](https://github.com/spriebsch "spriebsch (33 commits)")[![sebastianbergmann](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25218?v=4)](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann "sebastianbergmann (1 commits)")

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