Re: [LAD] forking (was Re: Aeolus)

From: hermann meyer <brummer-@web.de>
Date: Sat Sep 21 2013 - 09:59:39 EEST

Am 21.09.2013 08:43, schrieb Felix Homann:
>
>
> Am 21.09.2013 08:10 schrieb "hermann meyer" <brummer-@web.de
> <mailto:brummer-@web.de>>:
> >
> > Ralf, please stop this. You seems to have no Idea about what the
> blame is here. Read here,
> > Why, When, and How to Fork an Open Source Project
> >
> http://jamesdixon.wordpress.com/forking-protocol-why-when-and-how-to-fork-an-open-source-project/
> >
>
> As I mentioned above this is an issue with namespaces: A 'fork' on
> github usually isn't the kind of fork Dixon is writing about. A 'fork'
> on github most of the times is just what would have been called a
> working tree or a personal tree everywhere else. To give the example
> again: There are currently 3646 'forks' of Linus Torvalds' kernel
> tree. Do you think they are misbehaving?
>
> (BTW, I strongly feel that github would have better chosen the phrase
> "clone me on github" instead of "fork me...")
>
There is a big difference in a initial push, or a push on the fork
button. If you push the fork button, the original maintainer can note
that you have fork it, and could handle it as pull request. If you do a
initial push, the original maintainer didn't know about it.

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