What's in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform
What's in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform
H. Borges,M. T. Valente
2018 · DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2018.09.016
Journal of Systems and Software · 引用 307 次
TLDR
A throughout study on the meaning, characteristics, and dynamic growth of GitHub stars is provided and a list of recommendations to open source project managers and GitHub users and Software Engineering researchers is provided.