Stayvoid <[email protected]> writes: >> Of course, but my point is, if you can cooperate with the maintainers >> instead of producing an independent work and fragmenting what users see, >> that would be nice. > > Maintainers asked me about it. They want to pull my code. > (I can't push to the main branch because my code is not good enough.)
Yeah, it's quite often nice to have "personal but public" lightweight forks, and it can _foster_ cooperation, by making it very easy to share, and making it very easy to have public experiments. Git and sites like Github have done a great job of lowering the "cooperative hacking threshold," avoiding the very common "yeah I added that feature a few years ago, I think I've got a patch somewhere on my home machine...maybe..." scenario. However one thing I don't like about e.g. Github is that often it's not all that clear what the relationship between forks of the same project are; if there's a well-accepted "official" repo, and various personal/side repos, it would be nice if there was some indicator of the hierarchy.... [Despite that DVCS is good and all, sometimes I'd like some repos to be more equal than others... :] -Miles -- Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack.
