[bredren]

Repo abandonment is a problem compounded by gaps in assignment of package publishing rights.

Recently, I helped a maintainer get a PEP 541 request done after a year of people intermittently pleading with the owner to do a release. It took pypi’s direct communication of potential reassignment for the owner to respond and they did so within two hours.

Not every package has a willing maintainer to back up an owner like this. So finding forks that have sufficiently merged PRs or have even gone off to do new work can be valuable to avoid duplication.

I’ve done this kind of girl research manually before, searching for something that goes the furthest and seems the most professional.

I’d like to see this tool integrate directly into the GitHub forks page, though, ideally as a browser extension.

[Igelau]

> I’ve done this kind of girl research manually before, searching for something that goes the furthest and seems the most professional.

You done what now?

[ronsor]

Presumably the poster means "grunt"

[paulryanrogers]

Swipe typos have made detection more complex.

[bredren]

I think it was “fork,” which is very close to “girl” in swipe.

You’re right it was likely a swipe typo. I’ve transitioned to swipe typing about 70% of the time. Hadn’t done it at all until a few months ago.

Not sure how I waited so long to start using it, or if I’m more productive typing using it now.

[Igelau]

I had a feeling it was, but as swipe typos go, it's... shall we say ducking hilarious? :)