[dotnet00]

Agreed, I haven't ever really looked at stars, mainly I look at number of/most recent commit and the state of the issues tab, with more importance assigned to the latter.

If there are any important unresolved issues, it's a fail. If the issues have been resolved, it's a potential pass.

If there aren't any issues, I'll think about the complexity of the project relative to the number of commits/time since most recent commit, since if there aren't many commits and haven't been any for a while, it's more likely that the library isn't used by other people enough and may be buggy. But if it's still an active project, it might be worth trying anyway since I might be able to work with the maintainers to resolve potential issues (especially if there aren't any better options).