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Open source projects are not someone's baby unless someone claims them as such and takes their development personally. Having a leader on a project is nice, bu
by thwarted 17y ago
Open source projects are not someone's baby unless someone claims them as such and takes their development personally. Having a leader on a project is nice, but not all source code needs a leader, and not all projects flounder without a leader. And just because development is stagnant on a popular project doesn't mean that it's floundering either.
It seems that the "official" version is 1.0.1 and is available as a zip file on daringfireball. The license file doesn't say anything about Gruber being against someone else maintaining it, or forking it, or whatever. Nothing is stopping anyone, or everyone, from importing the code into github and people maintaining it there. Considering the recent comments on this submission http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017698 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017698 it only makes sense to put it on github, where everyone can contribute or fork and make it easy for control of the conceptually "official" version change hands.