Hi David, I was using GitHub's definition of a fork:

"Before GitHub, *forking* was a subgroup of developers going in a different
direction with the codebase — a rift in the community. Today a project can
have hundreds of forks, each trying out ideas that may get merged back in to
the main project. Forks now represent a vibrant and active community."

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:45 PM, David E Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> It sounds like what you want to do is not a "fork" (which implies breaking
> away from the project and never looking back), but rather a "branch" and
> more specifically something along the lines of the "vendor branch" pattern
> which is something very common.
>
> -David
>
>
> On Mar 14, 2011, at 1:27 AM, chris snow wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply Jacques.
> >
> > The current process of waiting and relying on the goodwill of
> contributors
> > to commit my patches does not fit well with agile development.  Forking
> will
> > allow me to develop at my own pace, but still allow my to synchronise
> > upsteam for bugfixes, etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Jacques Le Roux <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> I think nobody manages it. It's done by default by the ASF for all
> >> projects: http://git.apache.org/
> >> I have no ideas about the diff.
> >> Why do you want to fork OFBiz?
> >>
> >> Jacques
> >>
> >> From: "chris snow" <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> Hi Forum,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to create an ofbiz fork in GitHub.  It seams like there
> are
> >>> two
> >>> main options:
> >>>
> >>> 1) Use GitHub to fork from apache/ofbiz at
> >>> https://github.com/apache/ofbiz
> >>> 2) Use git to create a clone directly from
> >>> http://git.apache.org/ofbiz.git
> >>>
> >>> What are the main differences in these two approaches?
> >>>
> >>> If I go with option 1, and I want to do "Pull Requests" who manages
> >>> https://github.com/apache/ofbiz?  I.e. who will receive my "Pull
> >>> Requests"?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Chris
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>
>

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