On 19 July 2018 at 10:25, Sean P. DeNigris <sean at clipperadams.com> wrote:
> Nicolas Cellier wrote
>> github is the key. It's the social thing.
>
> +1. Things like issue/commit linking, and the ability to discuss changes
> inline in the diff are powerful (and fun). For me the game changer was
> one-click forking…
>
> Old workflow: find an awesome - but abandoned - library. Have a small fix
> that makes it work again. But no access to mcz repo :/ Start a
> days?weeks?months?-long hunt for the maintainer. Ultimately realize that
> they have left the community and…
>
> New workflow: Click "Fork" and happily continue coding. Bonus points for
> clicking "New Pull Request" so the original project can merge if interested.

And more importantly, you don't have to feel guilty about forking
since its the normal workflow to contribute to a project.
In old days it can be hard (I've heard) to track changes between forks.
So here is my favourite git/github view...
    https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/network
which tracks all changes in all forks.  That doesn't work so well
between git-providers, but maybe one day changes might be federated
between providers.

cheers -ben