It sounds like what you want to do is not a "fork" (which implies breaking away from the project and never looking back), but rather a "branch" and more specifically something along the lines of the "vendor branch" pattern which is something very common.
-David On Mar 14, 2011, at 1:27 AM, chris snow wrote: > Thanks for the reply Jacques. > > The current process of waiting and relying on the goodwill of contributors > to commit my patches does not fit well with agile development. Forking will > allow me to develop at my own pace, but still allow my to synchronise > upsteam for bugfixes, etc. > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Jacques Le Roux < > jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > >> I think nobody manages it. It's done by default by the ASF for all >> projects: http://git.apache.org/ >> I have no ideas about the diff. >> Why do you want to fork OFBiz? >> >> Jacques >> >> From: "chris snow" <chsnow...@gmail.com> >> >> Hi Forum, >>> >>> I would like to create an ofbiz fork in GitHub. It seams like there are >>> two >>> main options: >>> >>> 1) Use GitHub to fork from apache/ofbiz at >>> https://github.com/apache/ofbiz >>> 2) Use git to create a clone directly from >>> http://git.apache.org/ofbiz.git >>> >>> What are the main differences in these two approaches? >>> >>> If I go with option 1, and I want to do "Pull Requests" who manages >>> https://github.com/apache/ofbiz? I.e. who will receive my "Pull >>> Requests"? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>
