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  rails is lot older and it came to github when forking
  was the norm , watching came lot later
Aha! So is that why there are so many accounts that just contain forked repositories with no further commits?

(I suppose it was a heavy form of bookmarking something.)

Git workflow is evolving, and github in its forefront

If you want to compare on contributors Rails would again beat most open source projects , I remember seeing that number well above 1000

Some of us on that list haven't contributed in a really long time.

My contributions for example were pre rails 1.0 days so my part of that number isn't really meaningful to current popularity.

I often fork repos to remind myself that I want to contribute to it, but then don't find the time to get started on it. I can imagine there being more people doing that.

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