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Comment on You cannot fork a child by Chirstophe

Chirstophe — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:41:04 +0000

Without hard data, it’s hard to say what is really going on. You posit that something has changed for the worst. My guess is that things are mostly just the same as they ever were.

Publishing open source projects is tough (on various levels), collaborating is also tough. You see less collaboration where I suspect the change is mostly that this lack of collaboration is far more exposed today than a few years ago. Before, people would have their own CVS repository and/or patches for open source software, and these were, by definition, private. Now thanks to GitHub and others, these (tend to be public by default, so that’s what happens, contributing useless noise. What hasn’t changed is that most people won’t bother to submit their changes back to the owner. If anything, I actually think that GitHub and others make such submissions easier, so I would expect some improvement in this respect.

But change of ownership being harder? I don’t buy it. A while back, I tried (several times, over a period of a year or two) to get in touch with the owner of a defunct project to take it over, never heard back. I see the original domain eventually lapsed, and that the website was eventually transferred to SourceForge, but it’s as dead as ever.

Comment on Download: Ahimsa 3.1 for WordPress by ravi

ravi — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:50:56 +0000

Hello Yandira, thank you for your comment.

Comment on Download: Ahimsa 3.1 for WordPress by yandira cnb

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Comment on Ahimsa for WordPress by ravi

ravi — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:08:29 +0000

thank you for the kind words.

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Comment on You cannot fork a child by ravi

ravi — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:53:02 +0000

On urgency, I think this problem of forking a project to death has been growing in leaps and bounds in the last few years, but has been made worse by corporate forking.

But I am just rambling/speculating here. What are your thoughts?

Comment on You cannot fork a child by ravi

ravi — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:50:40 +0000

Whom to blame! The eternal question! :-) I would say it’s whoever made F/OSS an individual achievement activity. Though I used them extensively, I had no clue who the authors of gcc or gnuplot or those earlier bits of Free Software were. If I am right, who moved from a communal development model where the focus was always on the product to one where the focus is on [developer] independence and expression? I admit I am biased, but I think Eric Raymond (and Linus too) have some small part to play in this. A surprising point, I admit, given that it is RMS who is usually accused of fostering a cult of personality.

Comment on You cannot fork a child by Christophe

Christophe — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:45:00 +0000

So what (or better, who;) do we blame then?
And why is the problem urgent?

(And yes, I agree, it isn’t GitHub. My bet is that there were just as many forks before, the only real difference is they were hidden from view.)

Comment on Download: Ahimsa 3.1 for WordPress by ravi

ravi — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:49:22 +0000

Hello Karin, can you open up a request at http://help.ahren.org/? I will need a bit more information from you, such as what this widget is and how you added it to your installation of WordPress. Thank you.