Le jeudi 25 juillet 2013 19:17:08 Brian Fox a écrit : > > There is at least one Maven Committer who has been maintaining a fork of > > Maven for perhaps the greater part of a year. > > Is it really a fork? Or is it a superset? I think people throw around > fork but is that really true? without: - explanations of what is different (I mean a diff or something sufficiently precise) - early work with the community on how to merge (to avoid the "huge commit at the end" effect, or even no merge at all) it's a personal branch that will likely become a real fork
Notice that personal branches on non ASF git are a necessity for non- committers, but in the case of a Maven committer (even more for PMC member), not doing a personal branch in ASF git is a poor choice because Maven it makes Maven committers harder to follow the changes. I'm of course talking about branch of components existing in ASF: for real extensions, written from scratch, doing it outside ASF is another story. We can't force people to write everything Maven related in ASF: freedom, but it's sad if doing Maven OSS code outside ASF is found better. And for a PMC member, IMHO, it's more than "sad": it makes me wonder why being PMC member if not happy with the project? Last precision: I'm talking here about extensions, not rewrite from scratch of existing component. Regards, Hervé > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
