On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Karanbir Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Gaurav Mishra wrote: >> >> Recently i found a dead project that met my needs in a exact way !, >> After >> using it for few weeks and making a lot of changes and bug fixes , I >> requested the mod to incorporate, communicate or atleast say hi to me , so >> that i can know how he is planning to take on the project. >> >> But it looked like he was very busy to get bothered. > > have you actually made contact with that person ? have you given that person > reasonable amount of time to respond ?
What's the reasonable amount of time ?, 2 months is a good one IMO >did you use the 'accepted' mechanism > of communication for that project ? remember most people do *not* want > person email about project -devel stuff if there is a -devel related mailing > list. While most people will be ok with it - quite a few are not, and thats > a very fair situation to be in. > The project doesn't have a devel mailing list or a sorceforge/github kinda account and even a published svn. No collabration at all. > There is also a good chance that the person has moved on in life and isnt > really maintaining that project anymore - in which case they might be very > happy to move the code and the project to you and let you carry on managing > it. There are quite a few projects out there that have this sort of a > 'moving from person to person' situation, eg the mutt folder view patchset > project, and even tinyproxy. > Well the last release is 6 months old (Which is fine), He is still replying to forums where i have posted the question of helping in development of project. Hope he responds. My question is more on what are the stuff that a person should take care while forking a project !, The way i want to take this project may be completely different from what he is planning (and this is fine , because this is my need) , What should a person do so that he/she can get proper valuation for the previous work he/she has done.? Any clarification would be appreciated ! > -- > Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
