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You missed: look at the actual code.

Stars only mean something because of the people who do. They're the ones leading the herd. If you're just going off the social signals, then you're just monitoring where the herd is going.

>>jart+(OP)
Yep, this one is the headline item for me. Look at the code and, if it has further dependencies of its own, look at the code for those too.

The main question I'm asking myself while looking at the code is: if I had to fork this thing and maintain it myself, how would I feel about it? Because sometimes that happens.