The author of the new fork has confirmed he is going to rename it to
Neowaita or possibly something else, so there is no point in linking
this package to that repo as it will not take over the MoreWaita
project whether you like it or not. It is going it's own separate way.
Please refer to this issue on the GitHub repo that you've linked the
morewaita-git package to:
https://github.com/MoreWaita-Dev/MoreWaita/issues/1
You can quickly and easily create a new package for Neowaita or
whatever it will end up being named, but I would offer help to the
developers with doing that before jumping the gun. That's how both the
AUR packages were created. The prolific Dušan Simić stepped in and
offered great help. That's what people do in Open Source.
So, for the 7th(? I've lost count) time, please either revert the
source to the original MoreWaita repo at
https://github.com/somepaulo/MoreWaita or disown the morewaita-git
package if you don't want to maintain my project under its original
name. Thank you!
On Sat, Sep 21 2024 at 20:50:46 +01:00:00, Paulo Fino
<[email protected]> wrote:
You said "facetious".
Facetious
adjective
treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour;
flippant.
"a facetious remark"
Oxford dictionary of English
Not that I owe you any explanation of how and when I maintain my
project, but here's a brief summary for the sake of whoever is
reviewing this.
I have not abandoned my project. I was going through life stuff for a
while, but I've been developing again lately, and I'm preparing to
release MoreWaita v47 in about 10 days with many new icons and a
structural refactoring that may break stuff. It did for me locally.
I've been developing offline not to spam the git tree with half-baked
stuff. I've almost finished the refactoring and started working on
icons including the pending requests hoping to commit them for those
on the git version before the new release is ready, but now I can't
even update my system install with the new commits without having to
edit the hijacked PKGBUILD.
The author of the fork you have linked this package to also assumed
the project was dead, having waited "2-3 days" for an answer to an
icon request. When I told him though, he said he was going to change
the project name and continue on his own path. Here's a link to his
own words if you haven't read my comment on the AUR:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1fkjsdq/comment/lo6knc0/
Interesting how neither of you even thought of reaching out with a
simple question. Not to mention an offer of co-maintenance or a
takeover request. There are more criteria to deeming a project
abandoned than just a few months of inactivity and a few ungranted
requests, not bugs, mind you.
So, effectively, you are hijacking this package by linking it to a
fork while using the original name of a live project. There's nothing
stopping you from creating a new package for the forked project using
a different name like `morewaita-fork-git` or something entirely
different. The point here being the fork is not MoreWaita.
The `morewaita-git` package name belongs with the original project
that has not been abandoned nor it's name relinquished. So please
either disown the package or change its source to the original
MoreWaita repo that I maintain, and do whatever you wish with the new
forked repo. Till then, I'll keep insisting you stop hijacking the
package name.
On Sat, 21 Sept 2024, 15:15 Kainoa Kanter,
<[email protected]> wrote:
"inappropriate humor"? What in the world are you talking about?
Please stop harassing me over a project you abandoned.
Sep 21, 2024 5:54:48 AM [email protected]:
> It may well be facetious, although I don't see where I'm using
inappropriate humour regarding this.
> You, on the other hand, didn't even think of sending me a message
before hijacking the package. Please disown it or change the repo
back to the original.
>
> On Fri, Sep 20 2024 at 23:26:59 -03:00:00, Kainoa Kanter
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's facetious to say that I "never replied to your message",
you sent it two hours ago.
>> Sep 20, 2024 9:25:05 PM [email protected]:
>> somepaulo [1] filed an orphan request for morewaita-git [2]:
>>> This package is for an icon theme that I'm developing on
github. A co-
>>> developer, dusansimic, created the morewaita and morewaita-git
>>> packages on AUR and was maintaining them, but at some point he
>>> disowned the packages without telling me. I've only realised
this
>>> today, when I got an unexpected update on the morewaita-git
package.
>>> When this package got disowned, user That1Calculator adopted it
and
>>> today he changed the source repo from my git original to a
recent fork
>>> by somebody else, while keeping the same package name. I've
written to
>>> That1Calculator asking him to disown the package on AUR, but
haven't
>>> received a reply. Nor has he replied to my comment on the
package
>>> page.
>>> I've adopted the release-based morewaita AUR package, and I
would like
>>> to adopt the morewaita-git package as well, being the original
author
>>> of the MoreWaita icon theme. Thank you!
>>> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/somepaulo/
>>> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/morewaita-git/
