When forking a project, shouldn't you change the name of it? Linux distributions seem likely to be annoyed if you fork and keep the same name.
Joe On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nut...@sun.com> wrote: > I've forked Jline: > > http://github.com/headius/jline/tree/master > > I know the maintainer was friendly to us, but I think we really need to have > more control over a few of these buggy libraries, so we can spin new > releases as needed. > > I've never forked an OSS project before. Should we give it a new name or try > to get the original maintainer to hand over control of the maven artifacts? > I don't really care either way, but I'd like to get a bunch of patches into > my fork and release that instead of vanilla jline with JRuby 1.2. > > Suggestions, patches, comments welcome. > > - Charlie > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
