Curtis Olson wrote:
[...]
I'm trying not to add yet another iteration to the debate about the two
terms "topologically correct" vs. "good enough", everything's already
been said (details upon request, if required), but I think one point
ought to be made very clear in this context, for those who are unaware
of the history of "terragear-cs".
> The terragear-cs fork has had substantial changes from my original terragear
> tree. [...] So the
> point is I let the fork happen, and let others take over management of
> terragear, because it was just far far beyond what I could handle thinking
> about at the time.
Stating that Curt "let the fork happen" could be quite misleading
because people might understand that the fork would have been 'planned'
in some way - which is entirely incorrect. Instead, the fork was
actually nothing but the last resort after, within a period of ten !!
months, Ralf Gerlich neither a) got a patch reviewed, which he had
submitted to Curt nor b) was given write access to the TerraGear CVS
repository.
I _do_ acknowledge that Curt might have his very personal reasons for
not considering Ralf's work then, but, let's be honest, what would
_you_ do when you feel like being stuck in a dead end for such a long
period as Ralf did, and would like to proceed in what you started ?
Let me guess, I think you'd be creating a fork, and may it just be for
the sole purpose of having your own development versioned. Nowadays
people are creating their own public forks (ah, "clones" ;-) of
"terragear-cs" before submitting _anything_ - which is't that bad at
all - as long as they're planning to submit their changes sooner or
later.
Cheers,
Martin.
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