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GitHub stars are useless metric.

If stars are useless here, I see that only one contributor is left after all that happened yesterday (505 to 504).

It's not changing the fact that it's too premature to reflect on public adoption at this moment.

Almost as useless as docker pulls, and MinIO claims both as vanity metrics.

OK, have a look at GitHub contributors metric. 404 today, 405 yesterday.

Just to clarify, I'm not affiliated with or protecting MinIO, I don't know anything about this software. But it seems to me that there's some overreaction about Docker here, and in reality it is highly possible that this decision might not affect the product the way it's being discussed these days.

Are those active contributors or lifetime contributors? And don't those counts leave out anyone who doesn't have a github account or doesn't associate their got email with their github account?

I'm not sure that GitHub provides those metrics, unfortunately.

Baffling considering how much they charge and how easy it is to get that info just from the git repo data.

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