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The ratio does not convey quality. Stars can indicate interest where as issues are correlated with both usage and quality. A star is not nearly as strongly cor
by voxl 8y ago
The ratio does not convey quality.
Stars can indicate interest where as issues are correlated with both usage and quality. A star is not nearly as strongly correlated with either usage or quality, it is most strongly correlated with interest. I star a thing because I think it is interesting and what to learn more about it.
If I'm writing an issue on a thing I never even have to star it because I am either actively using it (and thus perhaps watching it) or I'm a drive-by issuer that just stumbled on this thing and thus will either star the project because it interests me or not.
Stars to Issues is Interest to Usage, the more interesting a thing is an the least used it is the better it scores.
- JesseAldridge 8y agoIn theory you are correct, but in my practical experience, I've found that the ratio does in fact convey quality quite strongly. The original motivation behind this project was this: I wrote a script to take a screenshot of my desktop every 10 seconds and upload them to S3. I used boto to do the uploading (https://github.com/boto/boto https://github.com/boto/boto). Boto leaked memory and eventually the background script would cause my laptop to crash. When I figured out the problem I noticed boto has a large number of open issues (http://repoq.com/boto/boto http://repoq.com/boto/boto). This indicates that the project is not well maintained. Obviously this is not a perfect heuristic. But it's a lot better than one might think.