On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold@arnoldarts.de> wrote:

> (it became weirder in github times, as i now can see how many people
> (not really "many") people create a "public fork" without *ever* doing
> anything to it...what is that about?)

Creating a fork and not doing anything: Either the local experiments
didn't work out. Or one needs just a stable(*) version at a certain url
for personal use.

it is also much easier for project maintainers to handle pull requests than simple patches, which means that someone having their own fork on github can actually be doing the project a service, rather than seeking to "split" from it.

--p