Is there any reason to to this without cooperation with https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books which already has over 4K commits and 16K forks?
What's the point in forking a project like this? Adding changes and submitting pull requests would be the obvious thing, but that doesn't seem to be the case because there are only 4K commits and less than 30 open pull requests. So anybody know what's up with all the forks?
> Hell, I even fork repos that I explicitly hate, just so I can keep tabs on them or learn more about them.
I don't know what it means to "hate" a repo, but whatever it means, forking the repo actually means you won't be keeping tabs on them because your personal fork will have no activity until you pull from the original. And if you need to go to the original to get updates, why not just go straight there?
But forking has its benefits if you want to make sure that the original repository does not disappear.