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Find maintained forks for your favorites GitHub Repos

78 points by yann_ck 13y ago

fideloper 13y ago
Neat - I would love to see/read about how that's determined (especially for repos with many or few forkers/contributors)
- yann_ck 13y ago
  For the moment it is as simple as using the stars from GitHub. I just wanted to do a quick prototype to see if people want more or not. And now, I'll try to enhance the rate algorithm.
nicolasp 13y ago
Thanks, this is a useful complement to github's network graph. The ability to sort repos by last update would make it even nicer IMO.
- yann_ck 13y ago
  Yes it is an asked thing and will be done this week end:)
MProgrammer 13y ago
Nice site - it has the potential to be easier to use than the github graph. It would be nice to see how many commits the forks have ahead of their parent, or something like that.
- yann_ck 13y ago
  I'm thinking of a way to give a better view of the forks. with a lot of different aspects of the repo
cstuder 13y ago
I wish this were a Github feature. Active forks of repositories aren't that easily discoverable, even the network graph isn't always a help.
- davidw 13y ago
  +1 An open source project is a human thing. Github forks and stuff are neat, but to have a real project, some coordination is necessary, and I really wish that Github would provide more tools to encourage this. It's really dismaying to see some project with 2343232 forks, many of which are newer than the 'main' one, and see little to no coordination between them.
  - strumptrumpet 13y ago
    I believe the best tool Github could provide to encourage this would be to make forks subsidiary to the project they're forked from.
    - davidw 13y ago
      The solution would involve some kind of communication and perhaps a way of electing a 'leader'. I don't claim that it's a particularly easy problem to solve, but it seems to have been done when people just used a mailing list and cvs, so it is possible...
      - strumptrumpet 13y ago
        > I don't claim that it's a particularly easy problem to solve, but it seems to have been done when people just used a mailing list and cvs, so it is possible... It worked back when we had a mailing list, CVS, and a web page because a single individual or set of individuals owned the top-level project infrastructure associated with the name in question. Github broke that model by making forks largely non-subsidiary to the projects they fork. They exist at the same namespace, they have independent bug tracking, wikis, and author information. This breaks the social economy of contribution that previously existed; even if you choose to not participate in Github, your project will be forked hundreds of times via published Github-based mirrors that look like every other top-level copy of the project.
toddsifleet 13y ago
I made something similar to this but used bubble charts: http://www.toddsifleet.com/projects/github-forks http://www.toddsifleet.com/projects/github-forks
- yann_ck 13y ago
  Nice one too!:)
- j_s 13y ago
  Much more useful! Show some of the details sooner if possible (hover?) and you've pretty much solved the problem.
  - yann_ck 13y ago
    I will add a better metric than simply the stars this week end. Do you think of something you really want to have for a metric?
    - j_s 13y ago
      Thanks for following up; I'm not the perfect person to ask but it would make sense to allow all the metrics to be specified as sort criteria. Here are a few ideas: * number of forks * days since last commit * ratio of open to closed issues * days since commiter response to issue Definitely copy the default / demo repo implemented by the OP too.
  - toddsifleet 13y ago
    Thanks! If you click on a bubble you get a pop up with more info.
jbellis 13y ago
Commits-since-fork might be a better measure than stars, e.g. most of the starred forks of brianfrankcooper/YCSB have no commits more recent than the mainline.
- yann_ck 13y ago
  Yes, I'm actually trying to figure out a better metric.
ozh 13y ago
Nice. Ability to sort (stars or last update) would be neat.
ChuckMcM 13y ago
Awesome, thanks for this, Agreed on the commits (vs just stars).
bsenftner 13y ago
Does not seem to work when I try "mrdoob" or "three.js" or "three"... nice idea, if it worked.
- yann_ck 13y ago
  You have to put username/repo like jquery/jquery or ys/chekku

78 points by yann_ck 13y ago

Neat - I would love to see/read about how that's determined (especially for repos with many or few forkers/contributors)

yann_ck 13y ago
For the moment it is as simple as using the stars from GitHub. I just wanted to do a quick prototype to see if people want more or not. And now, I'll try to enhance the rate algorithm.

nicolasp 13y ago

Thanks, this is a useful complement to github's network graph. The ability to sort repos by last update would make it even nicer IMO.

yann_ck 13y ago
Yes it is an asked thing and will be done this week end:)

MProgrammer 13y ago

Nice site - it has the potential to be easier to use than the github graph. It would be nice to see how many commits the forks have ahead of their parent, or something like that.

yann_ck 13y ago
I'm thinking of a way to give a better view of the forks. with a lot of different aspects of the repo

cstuder 13y ago

I wish this were a Github feature. Active forks of repositories aren't that easily discoverable, even the network graph isn't always a help.

davidw 13y ago
+1 An open source project is a human thing. Github forks and stuff are neat, but to have a real project, some coordination is necessary, and I really wish that Github would provide more tools to encourage this. It's really dismaying to see some project with 2343232 forks, many of which are newer than the 'main' one, and see little to no coordination between them.
- strumptrumpet 13y ago
  I believe the best tool Github could provide to encourage this would be to make forks subsidiary to the project they're forked from.
  - davidw 13y ago
    The solution would involve some kind of communication and perhaps a way of electing a 'leader'. I don't claim that it's a particularly easy problem to solve, but it seems to have been done when people just used a mailing list and cvs, so it is possible...
    - strumptrumpet 13y ago
      > I don't claim that it's a particularly easy problem to solve, but it seems to have been done when people just used a mailing list and cvs, so it is possible... It worked back when we had a mailing list, CVS, and a web page because a single individual or set of individuals owned the top-level project infrastructure associated with the name in question. Github broke that model by making forks largely non-subsidiary to the projects they fork. They exist at the same namespace, they have independent bug tracking, wikis, and author information. This breaks the social economy of contribution that previously existed; even if you choose to not participate in Github, your project will be forked hundreds of times via published Github-based mirrors that look like every other top-level copy of the project.

toddsifleet 13y ago

I made something similar to this but used bubble charts: http://www.toddsifleet.com/projects/github-forks http://www.toddsifleet.com/projects/github-forks

yann_ck 13y ago
Nice one too!:)
j_s 13y ago
Much more useful! Show some of the details sooner if possible (hover?) and you've pretty much solved the problem.
- yann_ck 13y ago
  I will add a better metric than simply the stars this week end. Do you think of something you really want to have for a metric?
  - j_s 13y ago
    Thanks for following up; I'm not the perfect person to ask but it would make sense to allow all the metrics to be specified as sort criteria. Here are a few ideas: * number of forks * days since last commit * ratio of open to closed issues * days since commiter response to issue Definitely copy the default / demo repo implemented by the OP too.
- toddsifleet 13y ago
  Thanks! If you click on a bubble you get a pop up with more info.

jbellis 13y ago

Commits-since-fork might be a better measure than stars, e.g. most of the starred forks of brianfrankcooper/YCSB have no commits more recent than the mainline.

yann_ck 13y ago
Yes, I'm actually trying to figure out a better metric.

ozh 13y ago

Nice. Ability to sort (stars or last update) would be neat.

ChuckMcM 13y ago

Awesome, thanks for this, Agreed on the commits (vs just stars).

bsenftner 13y ago

Does not seem to work when I try "mrdoob" or "three.js" or "three"... nice idea, if it worked.

yann_ck 13y ago
You have to put username/repo like jquery/jquery or ys/chekku