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Not sure if it's their way of starring, or they want to make their profile look good to recruiters, or they want to create a copy they control for use as a dependency
Eventually I found that having a bunch of forked repos that I wasn’t touching and which became stale quickly only cluttered my GitHub profile, so I removed them from my profile.
Instead what I do now when I find repos that I like is I run a command on my server that adds the repo to a queue for cloning and then the server clones the repo without me having to keep the terminal open and without having to keep a specific tmux session or anything either. It works great.
The queue system I use is called task spooler
It’s available in packages on most systems. For example:
- https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/ts
- https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/task-spooler
On some systems it is installed as a binary named “ts” but on some other systems they install it as “tsp” to avoid conflicting with a different binary also called “ts”.
So on my systems I use it as tsp when installed as such and if it’s installed as “ts” then I create an alias named “tsp” that I use, so that I always use it as “tsp” regardless of what it’s installed as on the system.
Why the passive-aggressive tone? Especially when OP shows explicit enthusiasm in making his fork active and valuable for the community.
What is bothering you with OP's endeavour that you need to make him feel bad about it?
So yeah, pardon my lack of enthusiasm towards someone who says stuff.
If you are so unenthused, why not just... not comment?
What a weird choice to go out of your way to leave a negative comment on something you don't care about. Just trying to spread some negativity around for the fun of it?
Lol. The choice isn't between 1) be negative just for the sake of being negative; or 2) celebrate.
A third option, which I am recommending whenever you find yourself leaning into choice #1, is to just not comment.
The fact that you'd rather have me shut up speaks volume about what you consider a contribution in FOSS, and frankly I hope it's not a reflection on how you approach the real world, because you're in for a rude awakening.
If your only comment is "thanks for pressing a button", yes it's better to just shut up. I'm not the only one who thinks so -- your comment was downvoted and flagged pretty quickly.
>speaks volume about what you consider a contribution in FOSS,
How does my suggestion to not leave negative one-liner comments speak volumes? What was your contribution here again? Trying to make someone feel shitty? Awesome contribution.
>frankly I hope it's not a reflection on how you approach the real world, because you're in for a rude awakening.
Suggesting that someone not be negative to someone else purely for the sake of it? Yeah, rude awakening coming my way for sure.
That's what I meant when I said that it spoke volumes about what you consider to be a contribution in FOSS. If you think that saying 'oh, I forked a dead project to keep it alive' and posting it without having accomplished anything is anything more useful or productive than pointing out how useless that is, then I'm afraid your definition of contribution is as shallow as your understanding of constructive criticism.
On a more personal note, I'm growing weary of spoon-feeding you. It is not very complex yet you still struggle to grasp the simplest of explanations.
>On a more personal note, I'm growing weary of spoon-feeding you. It is not very complex yet you still struggle to grasp the simplest of explanations.
Love it. Personal attacks are the sign of an intelligent, well-reasoned person. Thanks for the laugh.