On 14/01/13 10:41, Josh Bleecher Snyder wrote: > Or Pieter could ask the community for volunteers to officially take over > GitX, pick one, and make a public announcement, backed up by a statement at > the top of his repo's README.
Yeah, that would be a quick reference. > > As to being "blessed", this is mostly a question of version-number and > > Google PageRank, isn't it? > > Bluntly: No, I don't think it is. > > Open source projects thrive under conditions that make for good > coordination. That's easiest when there's an official preferred version, > with someone who is actively maintaining it -- even if > that maintenance consists of nothing more than having an opinion about > direction and handling pull requests. > > Letting a thousand forks bloom, for a long time, each wandering their own > way, is not good for anyone, users or contributors. Well, who is going to maintain it? Pieter did it for quite a while, I gave it a stab for about half a year, and it's neither easy nor is it that much fun. The fork by rowanj seems to be very well maintained, nice landing page, issues which are being worked on. So it might make most sense to call his repository "blessed", if he is OK with that. > > I mean, if you manage to put up a decent > > website which ranks above gitx.frim.nl (should not be that hard), you > > are the blessed GitX, aren't you? GitX is not in the Mac App Store yet, > > as far as I know, so you could be the first there as well! > > For the record, I have nothing to do with that particular fork. I am just a > frustrated user that has tried out a handful of different GitX forks, all > of which have their ups and downs. And I would contribute to GitX, if it > weren't so hopelessly fragmented. > > And yes, one could grow to be the most popular GitX that way...but having a > mutually recognized future GitX can be achieved more easily. I completely agree. The most discouraging thing for contributors is a maintainer which either doesn't make the time to look at their changes or simply refuses them flat out. Simply looking at it, it seems like rowanj handles the issues and pull requests in a timely manner, but this is where the active contributors should weigh in here. > I mainly wanted to give likely interested folks an opportunity to > chime in on that discussion. As you have, which I appreciate, our > disagreements notwithstanding. :) Yeah, I'm always open. Disagreements are what mailing lists are good for. Let's wait if Pieter voices an oppinion. Regards, Jojo -- Johannes Gilger <[email protected]> http://heipei.net GPG-Key: 0xD47A7FFC GPG-Fingerprint: 5441 D425 6D4A BD33 B580 618C 3CDC C4D0 D47A 7FFC
