forkasting
Fork casting is a term used in software development and blockchain contexts to describe the practice of forecasting the outcomes of forking events. Derived from fork and forecasting, forkasting seeks to predict which forks of a project or chain will gain traction, how governance decisions, licensing, and community support will influence their trajectories, and what the overall ecosystem may look like after a fork. In software repositories, forking creates competing variants of a project; in blockchain networks, forks can establish parallel chains with different protocols or rules. Forkasting aims to provide probabilistic assessments of future fork success, community engagement, and potential market or governance impact.
Analysts collect data from version control activity—fork counts, new pull requests, commits, issue activity, and contributor
Applications of forkasting include risk assessment for investors or organizations, strategic planning for maintainers about fork
See also: fork (software), forking (blockchain), predictive analytics, software project management.