On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:44:22AM +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 23:39 -0400, Chris McCormick wrote: > > Also, whenever somebody's patch > > is not accepted by Miller they often decide to fork Pd. In other open > > source projects it is very normal for the project maintainer to drop > > patches with very little info, or even completely silently. When this > > happens in Pd development, people sometimes get antagonistic and/or > > frustrated > > forking is something, that's happening in other free software > communities as well and is usually a way to speed up the development > process if the maintainer becomes too conservative ... the history of > gcc shows a successful fork ... > > but there are always two sides ... the developer doing the fork is > loosing the support of the community and the community is loosing the > support of the developer ... > > it's good to see this discussion on the pd-list, though ...
Yeah, I agree completely on all counts. Sometimes really great software comes out of forks. DesireData looks really interesting, and I know that nova isn't a fork, but it looks interesting too. Can't wait until some of these cool bits of software reach maturity (same goes for Pd)! Lovin' the Free world, Chris. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx
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