I concur with Chris--please fork in this case and do not "transfer" the
project. It's mostly BSD code. All the collateral you need to take the
codebase into your desired direction is available.
Among other things related to the history of the project, there's strong
branding/affiliation/association of "MacFUSE" with "Google". Google-official
MacFUSE releases are signed with private keys that (chain of trust) belong
to Google. ("Belong" as in they are Google's liability.) It wouldn't be nice
to confuse users in all kinds of ways.
Plus, as for "neglected", stay tuned for something in the Mac OS X Lion
time-frame.
Amit
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Chris DiBona <[email protected]> wrote:
> cc'ing Amit who would like to comment on this.
>
> Chris
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Chris DiBona <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Actually in this case, I'd prefer the project forks into a new project.
>> I'm changing it back.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Nathaniel Manista
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Anatol Pomozov <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I forgot to mention that I tried to contact the current owner (Amit) a
>>>> few weeks ago but I haven't got any answer from him.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Anatol Pomozov
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > Dear Google Code Hosting Team
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > There is a project hosted at Google Code
>>>> > http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ that is de-facto neglected.
>>>> >
>>>> > Amit (he is in the to: line), the only commiter of this project, made
>>>> > last change in 2009. The last project release has been released in
>>>> > 2008.
>>>> >
>>>> > From other side this project is vital for many Mac users and
>>>> > developers. That is why people continue to file issues and continue
>>>> > development in its own forks, such as
>>>> >
>>>> > https://github.com/tuxera/macfuse
>>>> > https://github.com/bfleischer/macfuse
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Please transfer the ownership either to me ([email protected])
>>>> > or to Erik ([email protected]) or Benjamin (he'll provide his
>>>> gmail
>>>> > user id).
>>>> >
>>>> > If you like we can continue the discussion in the project maillist.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Everything seems to be in order. I've effected the transfer.
>>> -Nathaniel
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