> Strongly agree. Now that Github is being used as a de facto CV,
First off, I really dislike this practice to begin with.
That said, under this practice, the current approach discourages people from forking others' repositories (I know at least one person who has a separate account just for this, so it doesn't "clutter" his list of repositories).
It also discourages contributing to new projects with fewer stars. Currently, my contribution to Github's linguist (1880 stars) shows up on my 5 "repositories contributed to". If I contribute to my friend's one-off project, it may or may not push that off and I have no way of knowing, since those five aren't even ordered in any way that I can make sense of. (I have experimented with this in the past, and the repository that seems to be bumped when I make a new submission is arbitrary, as far as I can tell).
First off, I really dislike this practice to begin with.
That said, under this practice, the current approach discourages people from forking others' repositories (I know at least one person who has a separate account just for this, so it doesn't "clutter" his list of repositories).
It also discourages contributing to new projects with fewer stars. Currently, my contribution to Github's linguist (1880 stars) shows up on my 5 "repositories contributed to". If I contribute to my friend's one-off project, it may or may not push that off and I have no way of knowing, since those five aren't even ordered in any way that I can make sense of. (I have experimented with this in the past, and the repository that seems to be bumped when I make a new submission is arbitrary, as far as I can tell).