Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market

Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by imadj on Saturday March 18, 2023 @01:49PM (#35211400)

Closed issues dont mean anything though... a lot of maintainers bulk close hundered of issues as "nofix", "no activity after 3 months", and so on. Just sweeping them under the rug. And many of them pride themselves with the 0 opened issues like it mean something. Any software in the world can have 0 issues if they played this game.

So unless you are really well versed in the project and spent some time following it, stars actually might be a better indicator of the project quality and reputation.

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by bakugo on Saturday March 18, 2023 @02:43PM (#35211904)

> a lot of maintainers bulk close hundered of issues as "nofix", "no activity after 3 months", and so on

God, I hate this. Every time I have an issue with something, look it up on the issue tracker and find the exact issue I'm having autoclosed as "stale" by a fucking bot because the author didn't reply "this is still an issue" once every 24 hours, it instantly makes my blood boil and I avoid using the software in question as much as possible in the future. Nothing screams "I care more about github numbers than my users or the quality of my software" more than this.

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by teh_klev on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:29AM (#35216319)

Are you paying the maintainer to use their software? If not then you don't really have right to make such demands on them.

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by omaranto on Sunday March 19, 2023 @02:09PM (#35221809)

I don't think GP said anything about making demands. They said they avoid using that piece of software and that is not a demand on the software's author.

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by bakugo on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:53PM (#35222873)

If you read my comment carefully you'll notice that I at no point demanded that the developers actually fix the issue.

The problem here is simply closing issues that are not fixed because they're "stale", no reason to do this unless you're obsessed with keeping the number of open issues low to deceive people into believing no issues exist. Keeping issues open does not take any effort.

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by teh_klev on Sunday March 19, 2023 @06:43PM (#35224480)

Go back and read your comment carefully, it's literally a rant about the maintainer.

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by bakugo on Sunday March 19, 2023 @09:01PM (#35225828)

Yes, it is. What point are you trying to make here? Being a maintainer of open source software does not elevate you above criticism.

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Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market by account42 on Monday March 20, 2023 @08:20AM (#35230465)

I can be upset with people lying to me even if I don't pay them and there is nothing wrong with avoiding projects engaging in such behavior and warning others about them.

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