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This doesn’t surprise me at all… Just like bots in games. Selling a service that benefits another. Its shady, but definitely believable.
Also, what if this is an actual viable way to “market” for an open source project?
Tbh I never look at stars, but do at prs and issues
Closed PRs and Closed issues?
What if it’s a side project with 1 star, 0 issues (because no one made any) and no PRs because no ones done work on it?
Really does depend on what we are talking about. Some random software that is not critical? Sure. Some system breaking library that would take down my servers in case of malfunction? No bueno.
Throwing out FUD.
The stars reflect the marketing effort put in. Has no correlation to the software quality or whether it’s critical or not.
More so if spme software had dozens or hundreds of open issues/PRs for months that never get looked at I’ll look elsewhere
Don’t want unstable dependencies
Initially, the stats will reflect amount of marketing effort put into the project.
The marketing will attract both users and a flow of issues and PRs.
I’ve done zero marketing for my packages. And it shows ;-)