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Why do some people fork repos but make no changes to them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by aloofPenguin@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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I've seen some projects on GitHub (howdy being one of them that came to mind) where there are forks, but when I check the forks out they are either unchanged, or are behind by a few commits. I was wondering why this would happen. It couldn't be for archival purposes, could it?

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[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How could anyone possibly know that those people don't contribute? Why would anyone even try finding that information?

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

you compare the number of forks with the number of contributors

forks are almost always higher, not just higher, but often by a factor of 10

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

that is just people that got their commits in, it doesn't mean that others didn't try to contribute, but failed.