Besides the parts already discussed, there is a technical aspect. Under sourceforge's policy, you can ask to take over a dead project. If I remember correctly, it entails one of the many trouble ticket styles, but read the docs for details. Their policy includes contacting the original developer and asking for his opinion.
In the (rare) case that the developer says "no", but still doesn't revive the project, just fork it. Maxim Veksler wrote: > What have you done in a similar occasions? I don't quite remember what the procedure for taking over PgOleDb (originally at http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/oledb/projdisplay.php) was. I think it involved trying to contact the original maintainer without success. I then contacted the gborg maintainers, and as the original project contained nothing really useful, they just handed me control over the project. I tagged the original code (http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/oledb/oledb/?only_with_tag=LAST_MAREK), and then started from scratch (see http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/oledb/oledb/AUTHORS?annotate=1.1&only_with_tag=LAST_MAREK). Quite a while later I was contacted by Marek, the original maintainer, who claimed I didn't give him credit for the work (a violation of the LGPL). He was referring to the similar structure of the programs as evidence that my driver was derived from his. I told him that it wasn't, and that the similarity, such that there was, was due to the fact that both projects started off from the ATL template generator of Visual Studio. I did, as a result, give him credit in the AUTHORS file for starting the project originally (http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/oledb/oledb/AUTHORS?annotate=1.5), as well as another failed attempt to get a similar project off the ground. As things stand, mine was the only one that was able to actually connect to the database and send queries. I did offer Marek to port one aspect of his original code to the new code. It was something I never got around to figuring out how to do, and his code did. He never replied to that offer. Aside from that, I vaguely remember a case where I wanted to give a project I opened on sourceforge a name that was already taken by a dead project with no code released. I asked for the name using the SF procedures, and after a little while (about two weeks, IIRC) I was given it. I hope this helps, Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
