Guten Tag William A Rowe Jr, am Freitag, 8. Januar 2016 um 15:33 schrieben Sie:
> Forty forks means 40 prospective committers. Or just people, like some of those currently involved, which change things once in a while because of bugs or such. I'm always just happy if my fixes are simply merged without participating in further development too much. > Nothing is solved by "moving" > the project to github if their changes are never moved back to the ASF. I disagree: I'm doing at least some level of support and merge patches once a while, depending on their nature and such. The problem now is that such an amount of work and "community" ;-) would not be enough for your incubation rules and the Apache way, so you would need to decide that it's "better" to keep me off the repo entirely instead of just letting me do what I'm able to provide AND what is somewhat requested by at least some users. That's a decision you make based on your project/organisation rules, but it doesn't change if there's at least some demand for maintenance of any kind, it's just that the project doesn't fit to your rules anymore. The problem and difference to GitHub I see now with the Attic is, that you have a huge, centralized SVN repo, which is very hard to clone for interested persons like me for technically reasons. When I tried some years ago, you actively blocked me just because I fetched revisions a week or so... :-) So if you decide that the project is dead, with the same decision you might prevent people access to the very valuable history of the project simply for practical reasons, because we are not allowed to clone it 2 weeks or the amount of data is just to huge with all those empty revisions or whatever. If the project is additionally hosted on GitHub and not only in Attic, it would be simpler for still interested people to fork and make use of it. I see that as somewhat special to Apache's Attic concept, and maybe even the use of SVN, though I like SVN a lot: To me it looks like that hosting all Attic projects on a platform enabling easier forking of the entire project history would be a great idea. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning -- Thorsten Schöning E-Mail: thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow
