Seriously, this is just...wow. Both entertaining and saddening at the
same time. And I don't think there's an innocent party at all, at least
not anymore.
As rewarding as it might be, and as proud as it might make you to point
to something in an official repo and say, "I wrote that!", as an honest
singular, I don't think that's possible. Others *will* contribute to
it, put their features in, etc., and THAT is what will be in the repo.
If you want to maintain your own personal version of it and make that
available too, then that's fine as far as I know, but the official repo
simply cannot be (or remain) the work of just one person. Thus, keeping
it light will indeed be a major challenge.
That said, it sounds like the package managers weren't exactly friendly
either. Unable to explain the previous paragraph to the point of
acceptance (which I see as the author's right to refuse), they did what
they thought was the next best thing - a fork - but they botched the PR
side of that fork. The original developer understandably thought that
his work was being stolen by the poorly-chosen wording and lack of
acknowledgement, and thus we have the arguments of late.
Is that a roughly-accurate summary?
