Not sure why a GitHub repo would be considered statistical waste paper… if I were screening hundreds of applications without deep knowledge of what each one is about, a code repository would be a good indicator of activity or inactivity on a project. Maybe not the only heuristic to measure by but certainly not something to disregard. 

 Agreed. But now it's the only thing that matters. If the developer client hasn't even been tested, a GitHub statistics table will negate the proof of work. For projects that have no users, they can make a lot of special green tables.
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