Fork (was Re: incorrect commit)

[=?unknown-8bit?b?RnLpZOlyaWMgTC4gVy4=?= Meunier]

Pavel Roskin wrote:

> I think it's time to fork.

Yes, it's time to fork or GNU Midnight Commander won't survive.
We should thank Pavel Roskin for his hard and volunteer work.
Despite he being a contributor, read ChangeLog to see what he
did.

Actually a few people know about the mailing-lists and there's
no site. http://www.gnome.org/mc/ only contains outdated
mailing-list archives.

My proposal is to register a domain name (midnightcommander.net
or midnightcommander.org) and host it at
http://www.portland.co.uk/ , a free web service that supports
MySQL, PHP, and the only that doesn't use banner ads. I don't
have the resources to host sites, but if you have a better idea
or the resources, just let us know. I'm willing to be the
billing address. http://gandi.net/ could be the registrar.

And Pavel Roskin would create http://mc.sourceforge.net/ . I
think SourceForge could be used for at least CVS, FTP, and
mailing-lists.

Don't forget we also have http://www.gnu.org/software/mc/

BTW, is Midnight Commander still GNU ? Maybe the official FTP
site could be ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mc/ and SourceForge a
mirror ? Otherwise, mc.README should be in /gnu/ and /gnu/mc/
removed.

Miguel, I really thank you for all your work on Midnight
Commander, but it's time to fork. In the meantime we could
discuss my proposals.

Sincerely,

Frédéric L. W. Meunier, an user.

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