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Right, because stars on github are a perfect indication that a plugin will work for me.
by johncoltrane 12y ago
Right, because stars on github are a perfect indication that a plugin will work for me.
- kaishiro 12y agoWhere is it stated that it's a perfect metric for plugin relevancy? Alternatively, what would be a better metric. Any ideas?
- oinksoft 12y agohttp://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keyword...
- kaishiro 12y agoSo we're just trading one measure of popularity with another?
- johncoltrane 12y agoIt's the one that is used on that awesome site. A better metric is actually trying all the alternatives.
- divad12 12y agoYou're right that GitHub stars probably isn't the best metric of how good a plugin is. We try to use a more unbiased metric of relative # of actual users, and this we get by scraping dotfiles repos on GitHub, looking for references to Vim plugins. That's shown as the # users count to the left of stars on GitHub. It's also not perfect, but it's a useful source of relative usage statistics.
- johncoltrane 12y agoMy point is two-fold: 1. You can't have real and complete usage statistics so those metrics are at best meaningless and at worst misleading. Also, something being popular doesn't mean that it will fit one's workflow and needs. 2. Choosing a tool because of its perceived (through meaningless/misleading numbers) is not really the smarter way to build-up one's config.