Often a project is abandoned by the original people who made a repository and then other people pick the project up in a fork, or a project is forked

[FR] Add activity indicators to list of forks · Discussion #38195 · community · GitHub

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2023-01-24 22:30:09

Often a project is abandoned by the original people who made a repository and then other people pick the project up in a fork, or a project is forked and the fork itself becomming it's own, major then. If it is a reasonably large project, a great number of forks may exist and it is hard to find which ones are actively being worked on and which are a one off pull request that are just cluttering up the list.

Right now the best option is to scroll through the list and try and find forks which have been forked themselves or simply click every single one and check the status there, which is sub-optimal.

Add some indicators on how a fork is doing, when the last commit was and how many commits ahead/behind a project is in regards to it's parent, how many stars it got, and perhaps allow us to sort by those metrics.

If we see then see that a fork is 83 commits behind the parent or hasn't been committed to for 2 years, then we can ignore it.

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