The plugin is the second most starred jQuery project on GitHub, after the jQuery framework itself. It is immensely popular, has been forked over 7,800 times, and has been integrated into hundreds ...

It’s possible to slice, dice, and present GitHub data in any way you see fit through its publicly available API, which is exactly what Two Sigma Ventures has done with the Open Source Index.

Source: Arxiv.org The implications of fake stars on GitHub and its users are multiple, but generally, the problem erodes trust in the platform and the various software projects hosted on it.

The popular jQuery JavaScript framework has announced a new plugins site designed to make it easier to share and find useful jQuery plugins. Unfortunately, while there are some better back end ...