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If Github would highlight popular forks better that would be a tremendous help. It currently is annoying to uncover if there are any relevant forks and what the

• tracker1 4y ago
  It will vary... there's times I've created the PR myself, but cannot wait for the patch to make it in... so I'll reference my fork to start with, then go back and re-reference to upstream and delete my downstream once it's accepted. I usually discover existing forks when looking for a bug/issue fix and see there's already a PR, that may have been sitting for a while, or rejected but the issue remains. Sometimes that means creating my own fork of the downstream for ongoing use. YMMV, I usually do try to update the README to indicate it's a fork for personal use until upstream approves/integrates.
  • oezi 4y ago
    I think single issue forks should be presented in the Fork overview in a special way (for instance with the linked issue), but I was mostly talking about actively developed forks which are hundreds of commits further than the original project/upstream. Github should be doing more to advertise these for instance by showing the top 5 forks in terms of activity. Also too many forks are just user interface mistakes where somebody wants to look at the lists of forks but accidentally forks the projects by clicking on the Fork counter in the top right corner rather than the Fork counter in the "About" box of the project.