Introduce contibution rate as a metric of project popularity

Description

"Trendiness of OSS should be assessed by contribution rate, not by stars"

http://www.krihelinator.xyz

Maybe GitLab should utilise the same idea and make contribution rate a first class citizen. It would also mean that popular projects which move to GitLab.com won't suffer that much:

  • Now: thousands of stars on GitHub --> 0 stars on GitLab
  • With contribution rate: thousands of stars on GitHub --> 0 stars + contribution rate on GitLab

Proposal

Features:

  • Ability to view contribution rate on a project page
  • Ability to sort repositories by contribution rate
  • Badges like on www.krihelinator.xyz

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