On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 17:04, Wai Yan Pong <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thank you all for the replies. I wonder if there are any kind of > "rules" that decide when the project is officially abandoned?
There is no "official" with open source :). Since Axel created fish, and has been actively improving it and accepting contributions, he is the de-facto "official" developer. Courtesy also demands that if somebody else takes over development without the blessing of Axel, the result should be called a fork of fish and not the "official" fish. Original developers have a sort-of moral "trademark" right on the original project name. But for practical purposes, there is no "abandoned" either in open source :). As long as the project matters to enough people, others will pick up the development even if the original developer abandons it without notice. Swithing over to new infrastracture, and establishing trust with users, would take some time - but in the long run Free Programs Don't Die. > And I really hope someone can revive this nice project quickly. > With the homepage gone, I think new comers (someone like me) > will think twice being adopting fish shell. > Axel has been known to take "vacations" from development and email for several weeks, but does excellent work pushing fish forward most of the time. I believe that at this stage, you should just give it some more time. The site will come up eventually (Daniel said soemthing is being done about that). And fish certainly matters to enough people (like truly yours) to not let it die in the long run. Meanwhile, use the builtin 'help' and/or http://web.archive.org/web/20080822062124/http://fishshell.org/. And don't hesitate to ask anything! We strive to be helpful to new users. P.S. archive.org has no copies of the fish site after August 2008! But I'm pretty sure the site has been up until recently, right? -- Beni <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
