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I've earned "patient skeleton" twice. The real shocker: one of those was merged after the two year mark. There wasn't any back-and-forth about the PR or anythi
by hoistbypetard 3y ago
I've earned "patient skeleton" twice.
The real shocker: one of those was merged after the two year mark. There wasn't any back-and-forth about the PR or anything like that, either. It was a low-activity project, and it had gone unnoticed. I had given up and pointed my `requirements.txt` at my own fork.
Someone else filed an issue about the same problem my long-pending PR fixed, I replied to that issue saying that would fix it, and that activity finally got it noticed.
The other one is still pending.
- erulabs 3y agoThe amount of uncaptured value in forked projects containing one vital change, unmerged into mainline, is easily in the billions of dollars.
- viraptor 3y agoI maintained a fork of a project for a while where I just grabbed all useful PRs from the "network" tab of the original repo and merged them / resolved conflicts. Fortunately at some point it was joined back to the original repo, but... yes, there's definitely a lot of similar opportunities.
- RobotToaster 3y agoThere's a Firefox extension called something like "lovely forks" that shows the most starred fork for every repo on github. I find it useful for finding these kind of forks.
- jasonjmcghee 3y agoIt’s very odd you can’t sort forks by the number of stars in the UI