The software has become one of the main assets to deliver services today. Thus, software delivery has been dealing with a competitive and dynamic environment where the demand for faster and more assertive deliverables, called here Releases, only increases. Agile development methods emerged helping to accelerate software delivery, embracing industry and open source community. Since then, the software delivery frequency has expanded and improved bringing more adopters of rapid release cycles to reduce their time-to-market. However, using only rapid releases can not be enough as measuring software delivery can answer essential questions, like how software delivery is happening and how it should be. Some approaches for measuring software delivery appeared such as Software Delivery Performance (SDP) where software delivery is measured as a consequence of capabilities evolution. Popularity in Open Source Software Projects (OSSP) means that a project is mature enough in the community to fit the software demand and, therefore, is likely to be ready to be measured through a software delivery approach like SDP. In light of it, this work offers means to analyze SDP behavior in popular Open Source Software Projects on a Release timeline basis through delivery metrics. The results demonstrated that popularity is efficient filtering, as it improves the OSSP delivery, supporting the work's reliability and accuracy. The source code and methodology are published as a replication package to encourage reproducibility and future research.