Scoring Popularity in GitHub
Abstract
Popularity and engagement are the currencies of social media platforms, serving as powerful reinforcement mechanisms to keep users online. Social coding platforms such as GitHub serve a dual purpose: they are practical tools that facilitate asynchronous, distributed collaborations between software developers while also supporting passive social media style interactions. There are several mechanisms for "liking" content on GitHub: 1) forking repositories to copy their content 2) watching repositories to be notified of updates and 3) starring to express approval. This paper presents a study of popularity in GitHub and examines the relationship between these three quantitative measures of popularity. We introduce a weight-based popularity score (WTPS) that is extracted from the history line of other popularity indicators.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2011.04865,
title = {Scoring Popularity in GitHub},
author = {Abduljaleel Al-Rubaye and Gita Sukthankar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.04865},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Preliminary version to appear at 2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI-ISNA: Social Network Analysis, Social Media, & Mining)