active-forks VS murder

2. accessing an app running on a windows through rdp, either as a full desktop or as a standalone window.[1] OK granted you are still using windows in that case, in the background, but you can do that only sporadically by launching a cloud windows vm instance for the small amount of time in a year you definitely need that dirty OS for personnal use.

Obviously YMMV but the barrier is mostly psychological imho.

[1] I think there was a project to facilitate that for office, adobe applications called winapps, see the different active forks here:

https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#Fmstrat/w...

there is also this:

I know about https://github.com/techgaun/active-forks, however this "only" shows the time of last activity which is not too bad, but not exactly what I'd like to have, since this provides no indication on the (possible) progress of the project (if one could measure progress in units of commits)...

I stumbled upon this tool: https://github.com/techgaun/active-forks. But it didn't help, it didn't work on my repo.

It is abandoned for 4 years, found most active fork(nice tool) of this, which is up to date and have cutting edge tools awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin

Chrome: Bookmark any page > Click More > (change name) and paste code from https://github.com/techgaun/active-forks into URL section > Save

mentat was archived by mozilla back in 2017, but there are a bunch of forks. Because github is dumb and has a terrible interface for exploring forks [0], I used the Active GitHub Forks tool [1] that helped to find:

qpdb/mentat [2] seems to be the largest (+131 commits) and most recently modified (May this year) fork of mozilla/mentat.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/mentat/network/members - Seriously, how am I supposed to use this? Hundreds of entries, but no counts for stars, contributors, or commits, no details about recent commits. Just click every one?

[1]: https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html

[2]: https://github.com/qpdb/mentat

Yeah, there is this tool: https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html

I'm really surprised Github doesn't leverage their data for better discovery. Instead you get forks that are second-class citizens and should never be used for active development. For example, they don't get watched by default and their code is not searchable.

> I have many thousands of machines running in multiple datacenters and even getting a ~4mb binary distributed onto them without saturating the network (100mbit) and slowing everything else down, is a bit of a challenge.

You may find murder[1] of some use.

[1] https://github.com/lg/murder

Is there a repository for Fork Freshness? I could see the twitter account ignoring requests in the future and the same fate could fall to this project. I would recommend releasing the project under AGPL-3.0-or-later to partially solve this issue so the project can continue in the event of abandonment. I could see people contributing code to search for projects in other known forges such as GitLab, Sourceforge, Savannah, Gitea, pagure, and sourcehut as sometimes projects are forked outside of the original forge.

I have noticed this issue that Fork Freshness tries to solve. My example is Twitter's project murder https://github.com/lg/murder When a project becomes unmaintained whether officially or unofficially, the future home is often lost unless the original points to the new home at the top of the README file. You can dig within GitHub in the Insights > Network section to get a visual glimpse of what has changed since. https://github.com/lg/murder/network The original repository put up a notice that the project is unmaintained and archived the project which effectively ends the project in practice. In this case, ervinb's fork seems to be the most active commits before being abandoned. https://github.com/ervinb/murder Other forks also had independent commits that never were pulled into other projects. Looking at the network method fails to differentiate 30 grammar fixes from 30 new features without digging into each promising looking fork. Even then, you may miss a single commit that included more work then the entirety of the other commits. Disclosure: I have not worked on murder.

This is a serious problem and I hope we solve it.