I guess you have read: "El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan"
Jorge L. Borges 1941 Andreas Jacobs e: [email protected] m: 31 6 16 732 018 w: http://www.nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl On 26 Nov 2009, at 16:07, Neil Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > aside : can you imagine my joy naming an exhibition, 'the garden of > forking paths' > ps: and thanks ruth for agreeing :) > > > On 27/11/2009, at 1:49 AM, james morris wrote: > >> >>> make art - a week dedicated to the world of Free Software and >>> digital art >>> organised by goto10 >> ... >>> This year make art focusses on distributed and open practices in >>> FLOSS art. >>> What the fork?! is about decentralization. Forking is the new >>> black. Work >>> from one source, copy, patch, improve, experiment, change direction, >>> inspire! Forking is not about quick hacks, but about creating room >>> to >>> experiment, letting go of the one working copy and creating a >>> multiplicity >>> of ideas. >> >> i kind of find this irritating, it seem to be suggesting people fork >> projects just for the hell of it - let's do all those things the >> original developers never wanted their projects to be - and remember, >> most open source projects start out because the developer(s) had >> like-minded goals as the above goals state. >> >> i think forking of an open source project is generally not taken >> lightly >> and is seen as a last resort when disputes/disagreements between >> developers of the project cannot be resolved in any other way. >> >> i'd be interested to know what kind of projects are intended to be >> forked, or more precisely what complexity/size? >> >> there's no point in forking a big project to just add a handful of >> experimental or idiosyncratic features. >> >> >> however, while i'm a little critical of "what the fork!" the >> project i >> forked (gfract to create gkII*) a few years ago was because i >> patched, >> improved (arguable), experimented (definitely), and changed >> direction. >> >> in my case, i was never a developer of the project i forked. when I >> forked gfract and formed gkII, my contact with the author of gfract >> resulted in the update of his code (ie from GTK, to GTK2), and he >> also >> developed what in his opinion was a better implementation of part >> of the >> user interface i had developed in my experiments. There were also >> features he simply disliked, and he then implemented in ways I >> disliked. >> But in this case it was all quite friendly and we simply wanted to do >> things differently, and he also had more important things to work on. >> >> james. >> >> * http://www.jwm-art.net/gkII >> currently does not compile unless you remove -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED >> from the Makefile. >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
