[morsch]

Has anybody ever succeeded in applying the distributed development approach (forking, pull requests, multiple branches and variations) to recipes?

[rhizome]

I don't think recipes hew very well to that model. Revisions aren't as important as variations, which means each would be a branch, which is unwieldy.

[ortusdux]

http://forkthecookbook.com/

[udit99]

http://www.forkingrecipes.com/