From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T10:10:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Who's maintaining log4r?

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 08:33 +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
> On 1/4/07, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:
> >
> > After discussing this with David and Rich, our policy is that if you
> > want to pick up an apparently abandoned project, fork it.  The
> > alternatives are just too messy.  But we're happy to host those forks!
> > Go for it.
> 
> Any acceptable way to point to the fork from the original project
> page? Maybe via a section of the page that is clearly marked as
> metacommentary from the site admins, and which can, of course, be
> taken down by the original author resurfacing and asking that it be.

Yup, good idea.  I'd be happy to edit the description of the abandoned
project so that it points to the new project... I don't think that would
overstep any bounds.  As you say, if the project admin resurfaces he can
always edit it back...

Yours,

tom