Comment by FleaFlicker99

I worked as a contractor/freelancer for ages, and coming back into fulltime employee work I was appalled that this was actually considered to be relevant to my impact on the job site. Some of our clients used gitlab, which to github looked like a long stretch of zero activity.

I'm sad that we as an industry use such simplistic and error prone metrics. The closer I get to the hiring side of things, the sadder I get.