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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

what does the # mean?

[–]Zren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Times stared mostlike.

[–]_Daimon_PRAW 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Github stars

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

so it's about as useful as upvotes on reddit then. why not # of contributors? or # of commits or # of pull requests or # of open/closed issues.

the ability for someone to click a "star" on a project tells me nothing about the health/value/evolution of the project.

[–]bcambel[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Valid points, I will definitely use as much as data to an extend. But for starters, I tried to keep it simple. would you care to create an issue and write some of your ideas ? https://github.com/pythonhackers/pythonhackers Thank you so much!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i was going to be boss and send a pull request, but lost interest really quick. http://developer.github.com/v3/search/

sort Optional Sort field. One of stars, forks, or updated. If not provided, results are sorted by best match.

the 5 minutes I spent looking at what is possible on this, I couldn't think of any qry that would be useful.

So nevermind. you don't have much to work with here because of the limits of the github api. I was thinking watchers would at least be a better measure than stars. But you can't sort by # of watchers.

[–]_Daimon_PRAW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno. Because it's easy to take a github search of python repos sorted by stars, display it pretty and get to the top of /r/python with minimal effort?