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What are stars even worth? Certainly not the number of possible contributors this chases away (I see issue reporters as contributors as well since they’re spend

by _lvbh 3y ago

What are stars even worth? Certainly not the number of possible contributors this chases away (I see issue reporters as contributors as well since they’re spending effort finding/debugging what you would have to do at some point anyways) All this for a measly 1500 stars

yeeeeeee 3y ago
Maybe to put the repository on a resume. Github also gives out free Copilot licenses to active contributors of opens-source/free-software projects but they don't say specifically what the requirements are. Maybe if you own or contribute to a repository with many stars you're eligible for that.
randyrand 3y ago
It helps make the repo most popular - more bug reports - more community documentation - more user testing - etc