Hey guys, On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Johannes Gilger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I'm willing to update my github repo with a reference to another repository, or even push a final update using the built-in updater of GitX to download another fork. At this point, I'm not really interested in resurrecting GitX myself (though I still use it daliy), but might contribute once in a while if an active fork is created. >> > 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. I agree with this, the current situation is kinda confusing and nobody is profiting from it. > Yeah, I'm always open. Disagreements are what mailing lists are good > for. Let's wait if Pieter voices an oppinion. I've looked before into 'blessing' an alternate repository by redirecting to it; however, in the past I haven't found a fork that has been active enough for a long enough time to do this. I wanted to make sure that when I hand over control, it will continue living for a while instead of dying after a few weeks / months without me being able to do anything about it. That might not be logical -- I guess any progress is better than the complete absence of me for the past few years. The repo from rowanj looks like it's active, so it might be best to just redirect to there. - Pieter
