In this study, we have explored some of the key metrics that users look at in a GitHub repository.

207 users participated among which 139 users are active open-source contributors, 57 are looking to hire developers and 28 are not developers.

Key observations:

People looking to hire developers mainly look at commit history and readme

A small section of developers dive into the codebase directly without looking at the documentation

Readme and stars are the first information that most users notice

Which of the following metrics matter to you?

Options given: stars, forks, contributors, commits, watchers, readme, commit history, code

What do you look at to get a better understanding of codebase?

Options given: commit history, current master branch, pull requests, issues, documentation

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