From: matt <matt@...>
Date: 2007-01-03T14:00:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Who's maintaining log4r?

I agree with Pat, it could be confusing for users that didn't know there
was a fork

How do some of the other open source project farms handle it, like
Sourceforge and the like?  Maybe one of them has encountered this and
found a reasonable solution that we can use. Maybe when an account is
created, part of the terms would be to agree to let someone take over
the project if the project is abandoned and the maintainer can't be
contacted.  ??

Just a thought.

Matt


 





> 
> Respectfully, I disagree.  I think there should be a policy describing
> how a project can be changed given an unresponsive admin.  Forks
> should be caused by a difference in opinion about how the project
> is running or the direction it's going.
> 
> If a popular project stalls for a long period of time and the maintainer
> is no longer available, forking it just leads to confusion for everyone
> involved.  How many people will continue to point at log4r even though
> it's not progressing, just because it looks more official than log4r2.
> 
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >
> >
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