Hi *,

Am 27.12.2017 um 16:19 schrieb Warren Young:
> On Dec 26, 2017, at 8:39 PM, Ron W <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If you are unable to make contact, you might consider "forking" the project 
>> (under a new name) and maintaining it yourself.
> If it’s truly abandoned, you generally want to keep the name, unless it’s 
> trademarked or “bad” in some way.  A better reason to change the name is when 
> you fork it while the original developer continues on with the project under 
> the same old name.
thanks for your suggestions, I found a contact adress in the PKGBUILD
file so I try to contact the author and see what his view is on his
project.

> I guess it’s supposed to evoke “refined fossils”, and also fuel for your 
> software development efforts?  If so, points for being cute.
I'm not sure of the reasons, but I thought in the same direction(s) :-).
Not too bad in conjunction with fossil, but too general to search for.
But I also have to search for "fossil scm" to not get to many hits on
watches ;-)

Chris
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