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Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by no_protocol on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:30AM (#12519285)
> I just fork it, fix it, and forget it.

When you say you like to just fork it, do you mean that you're publishing the fixes you make somewhere, or just keeping them to yourself?

I am very interested in any attempts at some kind of fork aggregator (see [0] and [1]) that can help interested parties see what patches have landed in each fork, rather than just which ones have their own users.

[0]http://forked.yannick.io/jquery/jquery

[1]http://www.toddsifleet.com/projects/github-forks#jquery/jque...

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Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by voltagex_ on Saturday September 17, 2016 @02:46AM (#12519454)
Most of my projects are forked by people who never make any changes to the fork. I'm not sure if this is some kind of spam or people trying to make GitHub profiles look better to recruiters.
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Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by vacri on Saturday September 17, 2016 @02:57AM (#12519478)
A fork = code under the user's control. A fork doesn't go away if the original source does.
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Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by chriswarbo on Saturday September 17, 2016 @09:04AM (#12520318)
GitHub's UI makes unintentional forking quite easy. When it shows a button like "Fork: 25", clicking the "25" will show the forks (which I often want), clicking "Fork" will perform a fork (which I usually don't want).
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Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by afarrell on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:19AM (#12519532)
These types of forks are asirational guitars bought by people who want to spend the time but never find it.
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Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by reubano on Saturday September 17, 2016 @04:51AM (#12519735)
Agreed. For me, forking is like super starring. Ive starred over 1000 repos, but hv forked < 100.
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Re:While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as i... by dogma1138 on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:45AM (#12519323)
>When you say you like to just fork it, do you mean that you're publishing the fixes you make somewhere, or just keeping them to yourself

Really depends, some maintainers and authors really dislike forking, they also tend to be the ones hardest to deal with on pull requests.

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