Hi Zhang, I agree with you, it is really a maintenance release with just a few more bits thrown in. Alex, the original author, was brilliant, but left the application somewhat orphaned. To avoid confusion this scheme offers the most transpaent transition for packagers and users.
If Alexander or others wish to take development up again, at the next release we could discuss the thing again. Alexander and otehrs are of course open to join the GAP team and work there. If other developers want to work on Backbone instead, things might even evelove that Backbone adds new functionality that makes it a fork, reversing the situation. I'd delay anything to the next release. Riccardo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zhang Weiwu" <[email protected]> To: "Gregory John Casamento" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 2:39 PM Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Terminal v0.9.5 > Gregory John Casamento wrote: > > A fork implies new functionality or some philosophical difference. > > Neither is the case here. > > > Hi. As a user I love the way to "fork" it using the original name as > long as the original author doesn't complain. It reduces confusion to > new users instead of creating confusions as some developer may think. > The alive version quickly tops Google result that users start to use a > more maintained version without knowing something happened. The original > author may lost contact or no longer working and that's not the reason > to force user to get used to a new name and document authors to update > everything written. > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
