The 100 Most Valuable GitHub Repositories

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Top 100 projects & repositories (Out of over 96 million repositories)

  1. Google Kubernetes
    Container scheduling and management
    Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
    Website: https://kubernetes.io/
  2. Apache Spark
    A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
    Repository: https://github.com/apache/spark
    Website: http://spark.apache.org/
  3. Microsoft Visual Studio Code
    A source-code editor
    Repository: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
    Website: https://code.visualstudio.com/
  4. NixOS Package Collection
    A collection of packages for the Nix package manager
    Repository: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
    Website: https://nixos.org
  5. Rust
    Programming language
    Repository: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust
    Website: https://www.rust-lang.org/
  6. Firehol IP Lists
    Blacklists for Firehol, a firewall builder
    Repository: https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets
    Website: https://iplists.firehol.org/
  7. Red Hat OpenShift
    A community distribution of Kubernetes optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment
    Repository: https://github.com/openshift/origin
    Website: https://www.openshift.com/
  8. Ansible
    A deployment automation platform
    Repository: https://github.com/ansible/ansible
    Website: https://www.ansible.com/
  9. Automattic WordPress Calypso
    A JavaScript and API powered front-end for WordPress.com
    Repository: https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso
    Website: https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/
  10. Microsoft .NET CoreFX
    Foundational class libraries for .NET Core
    Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/corefx
    Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/

Read the full list: GitHub’s Top 100 Most Valuable Repositories by Ake Gaviar

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I can’t help but wonder, just skimming the article, how they measure “reputation”. I’ve been banging my head against this problem for 10+ years, as I’ve attempted to design a censorship-proof decentralized network for journalists to publish without fear of reprisal. Reputation is a capital-H Hard Problem, and any “proprietary” or “patented” method is very suspect, in my mind. All the same, it’s an interesting list (although I absolutely refuse to believe that Ansible is in the top 10, from raw experience alone).

HOT TAKE EDIT: I realize now that they have a whitepaper for their algorithm. Good for them! It’s great to see someone trying to measure reputation in an increasingly reputation-less world online. I just wanted to leave my comment above, because it stands as an indictment of secret reputation systems (like China’s social credit system).

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