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Re:Resumes are dangerous by 286c8cb04bda on Monday April 30, 2012 @05:53PM (#3911748)
> There are however multiple projects that I think deserve priority when looking through my github, but as far as I can tell, there is no way for me to make it clear what those are.

You should use your user page[1] to draw attention to the things you think are most important.

> Additionally, if I fork a project, it's likely just so that I can add a fix and issue a pull request, that's additionally something I don't think people need to see.

I disagree. Finding your way around a foreign code base enough to make the changes you need is an essential skill for a developer. Repositories you've forked and made pull requests for are a great way to demonstrate that.

[1]: http://help.github.com/pages/

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Re:Resumes are dangerous by Arelius on Monday April 30, 2012 @06:39PM (#3911945)
> I disagree. Finding your way around a foreign code base enough to make the changes you need is an essential skill for a developer.

Sure, but a whole lot of the forks are like one line changes, they sit there taking up an entire repo, and aren't particularly useful.

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