Preliminary Study: Exploring GitHub Repository Metrics

GitHub is the largest platform for code storage and development and is currently the source of data on software projects. It is important to understand how repository properties affect code quality, project popularity, and find dependencies between different repository metrics. In this paper, a qualitative and quantitative analysis of more than 700 repositories and 81 metrics was conducted. Descriptive statistics, statistical tests, and correlation analysis were investigated. An analysis of the resulting descriptive statistics was conducted. The correlation analysis highlighted strongly correlated metrics and provided a theoretical justification for the dependencies obtained. In addition, clustering of repositories was performed and discussion of obtained groups of repositories is presented.