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> Quality is not necessarily correlated with popularity. Eh, it definitely is correlated. Maybe you wanted to say correlation is not perfect?
by sanxiyn 8y ago
> Quality is not necessarily correlated with popularity.
Eh, it definitely is correlated. Maybe you wanted to say correlation is not perfect?
- LaRakel 8y agoIt's more that there a lot more factors than quality, like there being no competing projects or it being useful to a lot of people. Writing a quality project only gives it better odds than if the same thing was written shoddily.
- sanxiyn 8y ago"better odds" is exactly what correlation means. It does not mean "always better".
- grosjona 8y agoThere is a weak correlation at best. One of my open source projects has almost 5K stars on Github so I should be preaching with the choir here but that would be disingenuous. I think that a lot of it comes down to having perfect timing... The kind of timing that only dumb luck can deliver. Building a decent quality project is just the baseline requirement... Saying that project quality or usefulness is the determining factor to achieving popularity in open source is like saying that having a pair of legs is the determining factor to being qualified for the 100m sprint in the olympics.