The primary workflow promoted by github seems to be to fork (using github's sense of the word) and use pull requests to contribute. I agree, I'm definitely not

The primary workflow promoted by github seems to be to fork (using github's sense of the word) and use pull requests to contribute. I agree, I'm definitely not disputing that. With the removal of the blue from the commit timelines, the profile of someone who forks and commits to a bunch of popular projects (eg. Rails, jQuery, MiniTest) now looks the same the profile of someone who just forks a bunch of projects; you need to dig around a bit to tell the difference. (I've been seeing an increasing trend of people who fork popular projects and don't do anything with them; I don't know if it's trying to fake activity on GitHub to look better when going for a job or what. Examples: https://github.com/chardy https://github.com/chardy https://github.com/yanovitchsky https://github.com/yanovitchsky https://github.com/VasyOk https://github.com/VasyOk )