There 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 b

There 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.