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by yann_ck • 13 years ago

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fideloper• 13 years ago

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

yann_ck7• 13 years 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• 13 years 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_ck7• 13 years ago

Yes it is an asked thing and will be done this week end:)

MProgrammer• 13 years 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_ck7• 13 years 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• 13 years 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.

davidw2• 13 years ago

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.

strumptrumpet2• 13 years 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.

toddsifleet2• 13 years ago

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

yann_ck7• 13 years ago

Nice one too!:)

j_s2• 13 years ago

Much more useful!

Show some of the details sooner if possible (hover?) and you've pretty much solved the problem.

yann_ck7• 13 years 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?

toddsifleet2• 13 years ago

Thanks! If you click on a bubble you get a pop up with more info.

jbellis• 13 years 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_ck7• 13 years ago

Yes, I'm actually trying to figure out a better metric.

ozh• 13 years ago

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

ChuckMcM• 13 years ago

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

bsenftner• 13 years ago

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

yann_ck7• 13 years ago

You have to put username/repo like jquery/jquery or ys/chekku

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