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The amount of uncaptured value in forked projects containing one vital change, unmerged into mainline, is easily in the billions of dollars.
by erulabs 3y ago
The 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