VisFork: Towards a Toolsuite for Visualizing Fork Ecosystems

In our previous work, we have developed and tested different visualizations that help analyze fork ecosystems. Our goal is to contribute analyses and tools that support developers as well as researchers in obtaining a better understanding of what happens within such ecosystems. In this article, we focus on the tool implementation of our most recent visualizations, which can help users to better understand the relations between and activities within forks. Since fork ecosystems are widely used in practice and well established research subjects, we hope that our tooling constitutes a helpful means for other researchers, too.