About badges: Though I certainly don't advise anyone adding twenty silly badges to their README, seeing a pipeline status, code coverage (and depending on the language, the code style) makes me assume that the project cares about quality and have the know-how to ensure that the quality is measured.
If the project maintainers added a GitHub stars counter, then I assume they check their starts, and I'll consider staring their project (one sec and could make the maintainers 0.1% happier). In case I see a Twitter badge, then I'd follow them.
So I see the first group as a signal about what I need to know before I pull in a dependency, and the second group as something I can do to make the maintainers day.
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About badges: Though I certainly don't advise anyone adding twenty silly badges to their README, seeing a pipeline status, code coverage (and depending on the language, the code style) makes me assume that the project cares about quality and have the know-how to ensure that the quality is measured.
If the project maintainers added a GitHub stars counter, then I assume they check their starts, and I'll consider staring their project (one sec and could make the maintainers 0.1% happier). In case I see a Twitter badge, then I'd follow them.
So I see the first group as a signal about what I need to know before I pull in a dependency, and the second group as something I can do to make the maintainers day.