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Software health reportschema 0.16.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-07-20 17:31 UTC
nelmio / alice
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nelmio/alice holds a health index of 89 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Engineering Quality (84/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (50/100). It was last updated 34 days ago. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.
89
overall / 100Software 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.
89
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 75 is calibrated to 89 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).
Ownership
NelmioOrganization
34 followers18 public repossince May 2016
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 | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | nelmio/alice | 3.17.0 | 572,031 | 85 | 146 days ago | fakerdatatestfixture |
Metrics by category
Vitality
Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?
64
Development activity
52Moderate
How it's scored
| 18/36 | Push recency — last push 34 days ago |
| 16.6/36 | Commit cadence — 24/52 weeks with commits |
| 17.5/18 | Commit volume — 88 commits in the last year |
| 0/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
Inputs used
| commits_last_year | 88 |
| human_commit_share | — |
| days_since_last_push | 34 |
| active_weeks_last_year | 24 |
Release discipline
82Excellent
How it's scored
| 27/27 | Ships releases — 80 releases published |
| 27/36 | Release recency — latest release 146 days ago |
| 19.8/27 | Release cadence — a release every ~83.2 days |
| 0/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data |
Inputs used
| releases_count | 80 |
| latest_release_tag | 3.17.0 |
| releases_from_tags | no |
| days_since_latest_release | 146 |
| mean_days_between_releases | 83.2 |
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?
82
Popularity & adoption
85Excellent
How it's scored
| 55.2/60 | Stars — 2,540 stars |
| 21/25 | Forks — 329 forks |
| 9/15 | Watchers — 43 watchers |
Inputs used
| forks | 329 |
| stars | 2,540 |
| watchers | 43 |
| growth_state | unverified |
| growth_factor_pct | 100 |
| growth_unverified_reason | no_history |
Community health
70Good
How it's scored
| 22.5/22.5 | README |
| 22.5/22.5 | License — recognized license (MIT) |
| 18/18 | CONTRIBUTING guide |
| 0/13.5 | Code of conduct |
| 0/7.2 | Issue template |
| 0/6.3 | PR template |
Inputs used
| has_readme | yes |
| has_license | yes |
| readme_badges | — |
| has_contributing | yes |
| has_issue_template | no |
| has_code_of_conduct | no |
| readme_badge_services | — |
| has_pull_request_template | no |
Ecosystem adoption (downloads)
92Excellent
How it's scored
| 76.8/80 | Monthly downloads — 572,031 downloads/month across packagist |
| 14.8/20 | Registry dependents — 165 packages depend on it |
Inputs used
| packages | nelmio/alice |
| dependents | 165 |
| ecosystems | packagist |
| total_downloads | 45,569,350 |
| monthly_downloads | 572,031 |
| unverified_packages_excluded | — |
Sustainability & Governance
Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?
79
Maintainer resilience (bus factor)
62Moderate
How it's scored
| 25.2/54 | Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| 12.8/22.5 | Commit distribution — top contributor authored 43% of commits |
| 13.5/13.5 | Contributor breadth — 100 contributors |
| 10/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 55 contributing companies or organizations |
Inputs used
| bus_factor | 2 |
| contributors_sampled | 100 |
| top_contributor_share | 0.43 |
Issue & PR responsiveness
84Excellent
How it's scored
| 38.1/42 | Issue resolution — 91% of issues closed |
| 26.2/30 | PR acceptance — 747/855 decided PRs merged |
| 0/13 | Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d |
| 9/15 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 5/8 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6 |
Inputs used
| merged_prs | 747 |
| open_issues | 47 |
| closed_issues | 466 |
| prs_merged_7d | — |
| prs_decided_7d | — |
| prs_merged_30d | — |
| prs_decided_30d | — |
| issue_closed_ratio | 0.908 |
| closed_unmerged_prs | 108 |
| first_time_authors_30d | — |
| first_time_prs_merged_30d | — |
| first_time_prs_decided_30d | — |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.
Ownership & stewardship
78Good
How it's scored
| 30/30 | Ownership backing — organization-owned |
| 0/20 | Verified domain — verified-domain status not read for this organization |
| 11.1/25 | Owner reach — 34 followers of nelmio |
| 21.3/25 | Track record — 18 public repos, account ~10 yr old |
Inputs used
| followers | 34 |
| owner_type | Organization |
| is_verified | — |
| owner_login | nelmio |
| public_repos | 18 |
| account_age_days | 3,702 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.
Package maintenance
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 25/25 | Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on packagist |
| 35/35 | Publish recency — latest publish 146 days ago |
| 20/20 | Version history — 85 published versions |
| 20/20 | Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked |
Inputs used
| packages | nelmio/alice |
| ecosystems | packagist |
| any_deprecated | no |
| min_days_since_publish | 146 |
Engineering Quality
Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?
84
Engineering practices
90Excellent
How it's scored
| 24/24 | CI workflows — 2 workflow(s) |
| 24/24 | Tests present |
| 16/16 | Linter config — .php-cs-fixer.dist.php, phpstan.neon |
| 0/9.6 | Pre-commit hooks |
| 6.4/6.4 | .editorconfig |
| 20/20 | OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 30 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 |
Inputs used
| has_ci | yes |
| has_tests | yes |
| has_editorconfig | yes |
| has_linter_config | yes |
| has_precommit_config | no |
Documentation
75Good
How it's scored
| 30/30 | README |
| 25/25 | Documentation directory |
| 0/15 | Documentation / homepage site |
| 10/10 | Repository description |
| 10/10 | Topics — 9 topics |
| 0/10 | Wiki |
Inputs used
| topics | php, faker, alice, symfony, symfony-bundle, fixtures, fixture, manage-fixtures, expression-language |
| has_wiki | no |
| 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?
74
Security posture
67Good
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 — 30 out of 30 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 |
| 4.5/7.5 | Code-Review — Found 5/8 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6 |
| 2.5/2.5 | Contributors — project has 55 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 |
| 0/7.5 | Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
| 0/5 | Packaging — no data |
| 5/5 | Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned |
| 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 |
| 7.5/7.5 | Token-Permissions — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege |
| 7.5/7.5 | Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |
Inputs used
| source | openssf_scorecard |
| checks_evaluated | 15 |
| scorecard_version | v5.5.0 |
| checks_inconclusive | 3 |
| scorecard_aggregate | 6.7 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.
Dependency advisories
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 35/35 | Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory |
| 0/25 | Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — transitive set not separable from development and test dependencies in this scope |
| 0/40 | No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date |
Inputs used
| source | osv |
| advisories | 0 |
| affected_packages | 0 |
| assessed_packages | 40 |
| unassessed_packages | 23 |
| affected_by_severity | none |
| direct_affected_packages | 0 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Indirect dependencies free of known advisories, No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched 40 resolved dependencies against OSV. 23 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list. 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.
50
Agent context & guidance
1Critical
How it's scored
| 0/45 | Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules |
| 0/15 | Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) |
| 0/40 | Legible commit history — no data |
Inputs used
| has_llms_txt | no |
| llms_txt_url | — |
| legible_history_share | — |
| agent_instruction_files | — |
| agent_instruction_max_bytes | — |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.
Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)
84Excellent
How it's scored
| 18/18 | One-command bootstrap — Makefile |
| 22/22 | Automated tests |
| 11/11 | Lint / format config — .php-cs-fixer.dist.php, phpstan.neon |
| 0/11 | Static type checking |
| 10/10 | Reproducible environment — lockfile |
| 0/10 | Demonstrated agent practice — no data |
| 5/8 | Automated maintenance — dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits |
| 10/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — all dependencies are pinned |
Inputs used
| has_nix | no |
| has_tests | yes |
| lockfiles | composer.lock |
| has_dockerfile | no |
| typed_language | no |
| bootstrap_files | Makefile |
| has_devcontainer | no |
| has_linter_config | yes |
| typecheck_configs | — |
| agent_commit_share | — |
| toolchain_manifests | — |
| dependency_bot_commit_share | 0 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice. Remaining weights renormalized.
Code legibility for models
55Moderate
How it's scored
| 0/45 | Type-checkable code — PHP without a type-check config |
| 54.9/55 | Manageable file sizes — 1/808 source files over 60KB |
Inputs used
| primary_language | PHP |
| largest_source_bytes | 144,588 |
| source_files_sampled | 808 |
| oversized_source_files | 1 |
Key facts
2,540GitHub stars
100contributors
88commits, last 12 months
34days since last push
80releases
2bus factor
47open issues
Packagistpackage ecosystems
More detail
OpenSSF Scorecard 6.7 / 10
6.7aggregate
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).
| 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 | 30 out of 30 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 |
| 6 | Code-Review | Found 5/8 approved changesets -- score normalized to 6 |
| 10 | Contributors | project has 55 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 |
| 0 | Maintained | 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
| n/a | Packaging | packaging workflow not detected |
| 10 | Pinned-Dependencies | all dependencies are pinned |
| 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 |
| 10 | Token-Permissions | GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege |
| 10 | Vulnerabilities | 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |
Direct dependencies 6
| Registry | Package | Version constraint | Manifest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | fakerphp/faker | ^1.10 | composer.json |
| Packagist | myclabs/deep-copy | ^1.10 | composer.json |
| Packagist | sebastian/comparator | ^6.0 || ^7.0 || ^8.0 | composer.json |
| Packagist | symfony/polyfill-php84 | ^1.31 | composer.json |
| Packagist | symfony/property-access | ^7.4 || ^8.0 | composer.json |
| Packagist | symfony/yaml | ^7.4 || ^8.0 | composer.json |
All dependencies 63
Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 7 direct and 56 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.
| Registry | Package | Version | Relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | fakerphp/faker | — | direct |
| Packagist | myclabs/deep-copy | — | direct |
| Packagist | sebastian/comparator | — | direct |
| Packagist | symfony/polyfill-php84 | — | direct |
| Packagist | symfony/polyfill-php84 | 1.33.0 | direct |
| Packagist | symfony/property-access | — | direct |
| Packagist | symfony/yaml | — | direct |
| Packagist | bamarni/composer-bin-plugin | — | indirect |
| Packagist | blackfire/php-sdk | — | indirect |
| Packagist | clue/ndjson-react | 1.3.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | composer/pcre | 3.3.2 | indirect |
| Packagist | composer/semver | 3.4.4 | indirect |
| Packagist | composer/xdebug-handler | 3.0.5 | indirect |
| Packagist | evenement/evenement | 3.0.2 | indirect |
| Packagist | fidry/cpu-core-counter | 1.3.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | fidry/php-cs-fixer-config | 1.3.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer | 3.94.2 | indirect |
| Packagist | infection/infection | — | indirect |
| Packagist | php | — | indirect |
| Packagist | phpspec/prophecy | — | indirect |
| Packagist | phpspec/prophecy-phpunit | — | indirect |
| Packagist | phpstan/phpstan | 2.1.39 | indirect |
| Packagist | phpstan/phpstan | 2.1.42 | indirect |
| Packagist | phpunit/phpunit | — | indirect |
| Packagist | psr/container | 2.0.2 | indirect |
| Packagist | psr/event-dispatcher | 1.0.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | psr/log | 3.0.2 | 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 | rector/rector | 2.3.9 | indirect |
| Packagist | sebastian/diff | 7.0.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/config | — | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/console | — | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/console | 7.4.7 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/dependency-injection | — | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/deprecation-contracts | 3.6.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/event-dispatcher | 7.4.4 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/event-dispatcher-contracts | 3.6.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/filesystem | 7.4.6 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/finder | — | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/finder | 7.4.6 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/framework-bundle | — | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/http-kernel | — | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/options-resolver | 7.4.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/polyfill-ctype | 1.33.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme | 1.33.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer | 1.33.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/polyfill-mbstring | 1.33.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/polyfill-php80 | 1.33.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/polyfill-php81 | 1.33.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/process | 7.4.5 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/runtime | — | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/serializer | — | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/service-contracts | 3.6.1 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/stopwatch | 7.4.0 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/string | 7.4.6 | indirect |
| Packagist | symfony/var-dumper | — | indirect |
| Packagist | theofidry/composer-inheritance-plugin | — | indirect |
Dependency advisories 0
This repository publishes no package the index resolves, so its own dependency graph was assessed — 40 packages, which also include development and test pins that never ship: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct. 23 could not be assessed — no resolved version, an unsupported ecosystem, or beyond the reported package list.
No known advisories affect the assessed dependencies.
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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Scores are signals, not warranties. They reflect publicly visible practices on GitHub — not a code audit, and not a security guarantee.
Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.16.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.
How one result sits in the wider record: aggregate statistics — Packagist.