Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-13 11:38 UTC

dxw / whippet

Whippet is a framework for building WordPress sites that eases deployment, plugin management and build steps.

PHPMIT★ 14 stars⑂ 3 forkssince Jul 2014View on GitHub ↗

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dxw/whippet holds a health index of 78 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. It scores highest on Engineering Quality (84/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (46/100). It was last updated 80 days ago. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Good

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met

Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps

Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable

Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended

Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas

At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution

Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 67 is calibrated to 78 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

dxwOrganization

43 followers351 public repossince Oct 2008

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish
Packagist	dxw/whippet	v2.10.0	4,395	23	80 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

65Good · 21% of overall

Development activity

47Weak

How it's scored

18/36	Push recency — last push 80 days ago
4.2/36	Commit cadence — 6/52 weeks with commits
14.4/18	Commit volume — 39 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 26 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	39
human_commit_share	0.94
days_since_last_push	80
active_weeks_last_year	6

Release discipline

92Excellent

How it's scored

27/27	Ships releases — 21 releases published
36/36	Release recency — latest release 80 days ago
19.8/27	Release cadence — a release every ~83.9 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	21
latest_release_tag	v2.9.2
releases_from_tags	no
days_since_latest_release	80
mean_days_between_releases	83.9

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

56Moderate · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

28At Risk

How it's scored

18.1/60	Stars — 14 stars
2.5/25	Forks — 3 forks
7.2/15	Watchers — 21 watchers

Inputs used

forks	3
stars	14
watchers	21
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

92Excellent

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (MIT)
18/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
6.3/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	0
has_contributing	yes
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	yes
readme_badge_services	—
has_pull_request_template	yes

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

49Weak

How it's scored

48.6/80	Monthly downloads — 4,395 downloads/month across packagist
0/20	Registry dependents — 0 packages depend on it

Inputs used

packages	dxw/whippet
dependents	0
ecosystems	packagist
total_downloads	122,033
monthly_downloads	4,395
unverified_packages_excluded	—

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

74Good · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

64Moderate

How it's scored

25.2/54	Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
15.1/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 33% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 15 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 13 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	2
contributors_sampled	15
top_contributor_share	0.33

Issue & PR responsiveness

74Good

How it's scored

27.7/42	Issue resolution — 66% of issues closed
21.8/30	PR acceptance — 132/182 decided PRs merged
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
15/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — all changesets reviewed

Inputs used

merged_prs	132
open_issues	35
closed_issues	68
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	0
prs_decided_30d	0
issue_closed_ratio	0.66
closed_unmerged_prs	50
first_time_authors_30d	0
first_time_prs_merged_30d	0
first_time_prs_decided_30d	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

67Good

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain
11.8/25	Owner reach — 43 followers of dxw
25/25	Track record — 351 public repos, account ~17 yr old

Inputs used

followers	43
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	no
owner_login	dxw
public_repos	351
account_age_days	6,550

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on packagist
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 80 days ago
20/20	Version history — 23 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	dxw/whippet
ecosystems	packagist
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	80

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

84Excellent · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

84Excellent

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 1 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
16/16	Linter config — .php-cs-fixer.php
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
20/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 12 out of 12 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	yes
has_precommit_config	no

Documentation

85Excellent

How it's scored

30/30	README
25/25	Documentation directory
0/15	Documentation / homepage site
10/10	Repository description
10/10	Topics — 4 topics
10/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	govpress, wordpress, packagist, platform-tools
has_wiki	yes
homepage	—
docs_site	—
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	yes
has_description	yes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

59Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

56Moderate

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — no data
2.5/2.5	CI-Tests — 12 out of 12 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
7.5/7.5	Code-Review — all changesets reviewed
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 13 contributing companies or organizations
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 26 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0/5	SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0/5	Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
0/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 11 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	15
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	3
scorecard_aggregate	5.6

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

73Good

How it's scored

14.8/35	Direct dependencies free of known advisories — 1 affected: guzzlehttp/guzzle 7.11.1 (high 7.2)
0/25	Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope
40/40	No advisories left outstanding — no advisory has been public longer than 90 days

Inputs used

source	osv
advisories	11
affected_packages	2
assessed_packages	97
unassessed_packages	0
affected_by_severity	high 1, moderate 1
direct_affected_packages	1

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 97 resolved dependencies against OSV. This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so the repository dependency graph was assessed instead. That graph mixes development and test pins with shipped dependencies, so only the declared runtime dependencies are scored; transitive findings are reported as context and excluded from the score. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

46Weak · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

36Weak

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
36.3/40	Legible commit history — 64 of 94 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.681
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

51Moderate

How it's scored

0/18	One-command bootstrap
22/22	Automated tests
11/11	Lint / format config — .php-cs-fixer.php
0/11	Static type checking
10/10	Reproducible environment — lockfile
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8	Automated maintenance — 6 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	composer.lock
has_dockerfile	no
typed_language	no
bootstrap_files	—
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	yes
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0
toolchain_manifests	—
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.06

Code legibility for models

55Moderate

How it's scored

0/45	Type-checkable code — PHP without a type-check config
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/38 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	PHP
largest_source_bytes	37,613
source_files_sampled	38
oversized_source_files	0

Key facts

14GitHub stars

15contributors

39commits, last 12 months

80days since last push

21releases

2bus factor

35open issues

Packagistpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 3 ⇿

0Stars

3Forks

10Releases

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

Major 2Minor 4Patch 4

Each point covers 7 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.6 / 10

5.6aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-09-13 11:37 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
n/a	Branch-Protection	internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md
10	CI-Tests	12 out of 12 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
10	Code-Review	all changesets reviewed
10	Contributors	project has 13 contributing companies or organizations
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	26 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
0	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
0	SAST	SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0	Security-Policy	security policy file not detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
0	Token-Permissions	detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
0	Vulnerabilities	11 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 5

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Packagist	dxw/rubbishthorclone	`^1.0`	composer.json
Packagist	aura/autoload	`^2.0`	composer.json
Packagist	nikita2206/result	`^0.2.0`	composer.json
Packagist	kevinlebrun/colors.php	`^1.0`	composer.json
Packagist	guzzlehttp/guzzle	`^7`	composer.json

All dependencies 97

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 5 direct and 92 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

Registry	Package	Version	Relation
Packagist	aura/autoload	`2.0.4`	direct
Packagist	dxw/rubbishthorclone	`1.0.2`	direct
Packagist	guzzlehttp/guzzle	`7.11.1`	direct
Packagist	kevinlebrun/colors.php	`1.0.3`	direct
Packagist	nikita2206/result	`0.2`	direct
Packagist	amphp/amp	`2.6.5`	indirect
Packagist	amphp/byte-stream	`1.8.2`	indirect
Packagist	clue/ndjson-react	`1.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	composer/pcre	`3.4.0`	indirect
Packagist	composer/semver	`3.4.4`	indirect
Packagist	composer/xdebug-handler	`3.0.5`	indirect
Packagist	dnoegel/php-xdg-base-dir	`0.1.1`	indirect
Packagist	doctrine/deprecations	`1.1.6`	indirect
Packagist	doctrine/instantiator	`2.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	dxw/optionparser	`1.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	dxw/phar-install	`1.1.2`	indirect
Packagist	dxw/php-cs-fixer-config	`2.1.1`	indirect
Packagist	ergebnis/agent-detector	`1.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	evenement/evenement	`3.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	felixfbecker/advanced-json-rpc	`3.2.1`	indirect
Packagist	felixfbecker/language-server-protocol	`1.5.3`	indirect
Packagist	fidry/cpu-core-counter	`1.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer	`3.95.5`	indirect
Packagist	guzzlehttp/promises	`2.5.0`	indirect
Packagist	guzzlehttp/psr7	`2.11.0`	indirect
Packagist	hamcrest/hamcrest-php	`2.1.1`	indirect
Packagist	kahlan/kahlan	`5.2.8`	indirect
Packagist	mikey179/vfsstream	`1.6.12`	indirect
Packagist	mockery/mockery	`1.6.12`	indirect
Packagist	myclabs/deep-copy	`1.13.4`	indirect
Packagist	netresearch/jsonmapper	`4.5.0`	indirect
Packagist	nikic/php-parser	`4.19.5`	indirect
Packagist	pear/console_table	`1.3.1`	indirect
Packagist	phar-io/manifest	`2.0.4`	indirect
Packagist	phar-io/version	`3.2.1`	indirect
Packagist	phpdocumentor/reflection-common	`2.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock	`5.6.7`	indirect
Packagist	phpdocumentor/type-resolver	`1.12.0`	indirect
Packagist	phpstan/phpdoc-parser	`2.3.2`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-code-coverage	`9.2.32`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-file-iterator	`3.0.6`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-invoker	`3.1.1`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-text-template	`2.0.4`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/php-timer	`5.0.3`	indirect
Packagist	phpunit/phpunit	`9.6.34`	indirect
Packagist	psr/container	`2.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	psr/event-dispatcher	`1.0.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/http-client	`1.0.3`	indirect
Packagist	psr/http-factory	`1.1.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/http-message	`2.0`	indirect
Packagist	psr/log	`3.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	ralouphie/getallheaders	`3.0.3`	indirect
Packagist	react/cache	`1.2.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/child-process	`0.6.7`	indirect
Packagist	react/dns	`1.14.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/event-loop	`1.6.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/promise	`3.3.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/socket	`1.17.0`	indirect
Packagist	react/stream	`1.4.0`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/cli-parser	`1.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/code-unit	`1.0.8`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/code-unit-reverse-lookup	`2.0.3`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/comparator	`4.0.10`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/complexity	`2.0.3`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/diff	`4.0.6`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/environment	`5.1.5`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/exporter	`4.0.8`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/global-state	`5.0.8`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/lines-of-code	`1.0.4`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/object-enumerator	`4.0.4`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/object-reflector	`2.0.4`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/recursion-context	`4.0.6`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/resource-operations	`3.0.4`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/type	`3.2.1`	indirect
Packagist	sebastian/version	`3.0.2`	indirect
Packagist	spatie/array-to-xml	`3.4.4`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/console	`7.4.13`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/deprecation-contracts	`3.7.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/event-dispatcher	`7.4.9`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/event-dispatcher-contracts	`3.7.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/filesystem	`7.4.11`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/finder	`7.4.8`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/options-resolver	`7.4.8`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-ctype	`1.37.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer	`1.38.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-mbstring	`1.38.2`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php80	`1.37.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php81	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/polyfill-php84	`1.38.1`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/process	`7.4.13`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/service-contracts	`3.7.0`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/stopwatch	`7.4.8`	indirect
Packagist	symfony/string	`7.4.13`	indirect
Packagist	theseer/tokenizer	`1.3.1`	indirect
Packagist	vimeo/psalm	`5.26.1`	indirect
Packagist	webmozart/assert	`2.4.0`	indirect

Dependency advisories 2

This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 97 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 2 carry known advisories, of which 1 are direct.

Package	Version	Relation	Severity	Advisories	Fixed in
guzzlehttp/guzzle	`7.11.1`	direct	high	9	`8.0.1`
guzzlehttp/psr7	`2.11.0`	indirect	moderate	2	`2.12.3`

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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