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Fair enough, and to be clear, I'm nowhere near 2.6k stars, although the project has grown quickly with no promotion. The only reason I pulled that particular i
by jnbiche 11y ago
Fair enough, and to be clear, I'm nowhere near 2.6k stars, although the project has grown quickly with no promotion.
The only reason I pulled that particular indicator out of the hat was to provide some reasonable benchmark for comparison.
But perhaps it was not a reasonable benchmark, after all.
- e12e 11y agoI would think merged pull-request (aka community patches that doesn't suck) would be a better indicator on gh - at least for open source project. Fixed issues a close second.
- jnbiche 11y agoLinux and LLVM have no merged pull requests on Github. And a lot of these "Awesome x" (Node.js, Rust, Go, React, etc) will merge just about anything. Also, I know of several project that fix tons of issues, but are relatively unpopular (perhaps because they have so many issues?). I think the bottom line is there are no perfect indicators of open source project popularity.
- e12e 11y agoLinux has lots of merged patches though. That they don't have merged prs isn't surprising as they handle patches via email.