Popularity is probably an aggregate of what you just mentioned
IMO, it would be more useful if Github told us what it means with some specificity. Maybe not every detail, if they want to avoid having people try to game the system... but a synthetic metric that no-one understands the basis of, strikes me as somewhat useless.
IMO, it would be more useful if Github told us what it means with some specificity. Maybe not every detail, if they want to avoid having people try to game the system... but a synthetic metric that no-one understands the basis of, strikes me as somewhat useless.