Step #3 Number of User Engagements is What Matters Not Amount of Interests (Signal versus Noise)
Of the three, “Star” has been the most popular metric people are using to gauge how popular an open source project is. In general, the more stars a project gets; the more popular it is. In this example, Tensorflow has over 100,000 stars which is very popular. However, showing interest is not a one to one translation to user engagement. If we look at the number of forks, it is only around 64,000 i.e. only about 64,000 people made a copy of the repository instead of the 100,000 people expressed interest. That means not everyone starred the project is doing something with it. Read More...
Of the three, “Star” has been the most popular metric people are using to gauge how popular an open source project is. In general, the more stars a project gets; the more popular it is. In this example, Tensorflow has over 100,000 stars which is very popular. However, showing interest is not a one to one translation to user engagement. If we look at the number of forks, it is only around 64,000 i.e. only about 64,000 people made a copy of the repository instead of the 100,000 people expressed interest. That means not everyone starred the project is doing something with it. Read More...
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