If your README states the software is complete, stable, and has all required features implemented, no one should expect updates. Vanity metrics, like artificial

If your README states the software is complete, stable, and has all required features implemented, no one should expect updates. Vanity metrics, like artificial activity, would do more harm than good. One of the problems with "social coding" environments like github is people tend to be influenced by the wrong things, like vanity metrics, rather than the right things, like useful code. The only way to win that game is to refuse to play.