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I never understood going by stars when there's a much stronger signal in how many issues are being tracked and closed. Very easy to see if its software people a

• zahlman 1y ago
  > a much stronger signal in how many issues are being tracked and closed This is a strong signal, but what it signals is confused. How much of it is the nature of the user base in actually reporting issues? Suppose the project receives regular fixes and issues are promptly closed on average — how much of that is because the project has to constantly respond to external factors, and how much is due to developers doing constant fire-fighting on an intrinsically poor design and not getting around to new functionality? Suppose there are lots of outstanding issues — how many of them are effectively duplicates that nobody's bothered to close yet?
• dvfjsdhgfv 1y ago
  Yeah, this is the first thing I check, and also I verify a few closed ones to understand how they were handled.