Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:45:34 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: util-linux: orphan |
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Karel Zak wrote: > > I've originally thought about util-linux upstream fork, but as > usually an fork is bad step. So.. I'd like to start some discussion > before this step. Maybe Adrian will be realistic and he will leave > the project and invest all his time to kernel only. >
Actually, forking is not really that bad of an idea. When I took over tftp, for example, I just did it and called it tftp-hpa. It didn't take very long before I got a message from the netkit maintainer asking if I was planning to continue, and if so if he could drop tftp from netkit.
A similar thing happened when Jeremy (and now Ian) took over autofs from me.
Forking gets your new maintainership proven *before* you end up taking over. On the other hand, magicfilter effectively died when I handed it over to someone who didn't do a good job with it.
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