On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Yeah, the random forks is quite annoying.
AFAICT github seems to (mostly) exist to encourage this mode of development; I've even seen projects with "fork me on github" banners on their website. The projects I work on are fairly inactive in general and don't need much maintianence, but when random forks exist I find it useful to see what directions people are taking with the code. So much so that I even go looking for forks on places outside the traditional FLOSS development hosting platforms (like Youtube). Of course merging those forks can be quite a hard exercise, they often contain non-free or other unmergable stuff. I usually use such forks as an opportunity to educate people about better development practices (DFSG, pushing upstream and other stuff from our UpstreamGuide). The namecheck (from devscripts) and whohas scripts are useful to find patches and sometimes forks. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6ej4qdy+c2ir+jhdrss8i4ixysfselky58agasopfb...@mail.gmail.com
