What's in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform

Borges, H., & Tulio Valente, M. (2018). What's in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform. Journal of Systems and Software, 146, 112-129.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2018

DOI

10.1016/j.jss.2018.09.016

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2018.09.016

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library_information_science

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Primes

• Salience-as-Significance
  • Open-source software. Stars, downloads, and "trending" status read as production-readiness, when they measure interested-attention frequency shaped by marketing and fashion.

    This sourceEmpirically shows GitHub stars measure popularity/visibility and developer interest (three in four developers check star counts before using a project), not production-readiness or quality.

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