When you find a potentially helpful GitHub repository, one of the things that come to mind is: Is this still being maintained?
Maybe the original person who started that repository does not have time to maintain it, so you are a bit worried that maybe this project may be a little bit outdated. It can contain security breaches, uses an old version of a library, or even Python 2.
This makes it hard for you to just clone it and start working on it right away.
Still, there is some hope. You may think that maybe there is someone who has forked this repository and is actively maintaining it.
Among many forks that a repository can have, there can be some old ones and some that are still getting recent commits. You are of course more interested in the more active ones. The ones that are still being updated and further improved.
To find such active forks, I recently found a tool that helps with that.
This open-source project allows you to simply type in the name of the repository and then sort forks of a repository based on the forks, open issues, size, last push, name, owner, etc.
It is open-source and has 77 forks at the time of this writing. Maybe you can turn that number to 78 and contribute with your own ideas about things you believe should be included in it.
I hope you find it helpful.
