On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> > (it became weirder in github times, as i now can see how many people
> > (not really "many") people create a "public fork" without *ever* doing
> > anything to it...what is that about?)
>
> Creating a fork and not doing anything: Either the local experiments
> didn't work out. Or one needs just a stable(*) version at a certain url
> for personal use.
>
it is also much easier for project maintainers to handle pull requests than
simple patches, which means that someone having their own fork on github
can actually be doing the project a service, rather than seeking to "split"
from it.
--p
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