On 2 Apr 2011, at 00:03, Sergio Tulentsev <sergei.tulent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There's this project, which his original author didn't work on for > last 2 years (and doesn't plan to). The project is missing some > important functionality that I need. So, naturally, I forked the repo > and started hacking. > Soon I realized that I need to make changes that will potentially > break all the clients out there (if any). > > How do I go about this? > * clearly state in README that the code is not backward-compatible > with the original. > * push it as a separate project. There's no need to start a separate project, but you should: * make the backwards-incompatible changes clear in the README (and the CHANGELOG if you have one); * update the major version number ( http://semver.org/ ); and * make a branch for the old version line, so that people can get to it if they want to (e.g. "v1.x"). Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to github@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to github+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
