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This is a serious shortcoming in github's current UI. There's no easy discovery for which forks are active. It would be useful if there was a checkbox "Activel
by ericb 5y ago
This is a serious shortcoming in github's current UI. There's no easy discovery for which forks are active.
It would be useful if there was a checkbox "Actively Publicly Maintained" in forked repos that defaults to Off.
That way, on the forks page of a repo, if someone is offering an alternative, an "actively maintained" check mark (and perhaps a date) can be shown and it can bubble to the top of the "forks" list.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoThere is a graph showing the fork activity. Also, the setting you are thinking if is probably “archive”.
- ericb 5y agoA fork having activity doesn't imply it is a publicly maintained fork that people can rally around. Many of forks are made for personal purposes, experiments, one offs to patch bugs, to keep an eye on a project, or other reasons. I'm thinking of the opposite of "archive" -- a setting that means "I nominate myself to become the lead repo for the community to rally around should the community be interested. On this repo, can you tell me which fork the community moved to for this dead project? https://github.com/lightbody/browsermob-proxy/network/members https://github.com/lightbody/browsermob-proxy/network/member...
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoAll valid points. I do miss some sort of guidance every now and then on some repos. The most difficult bit starts when multiple forks have different features one wants to have in their own fork. It would be awesome if there was a way on github to say "give me the upstream with this repo cherry pick, this repo cherry pick". But that might be pretty difficult to implement.
- account42 5y agoEven just finding out which forks have any changes compared to the main repo is difficult on GitHub.