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Serious question, because I'm not very well-versed in open-source philosophy. Isn't this around the time that you make a fork of the zombie?
by leggomylibro 7y ago
Serious question, because I'm not very well-versed in open-source philosophy.
Isn't this around the time that you make a fork of the zombie?
- throwthisaway2 7y agoIts not a zombie, its dead. Foss is bs. Anything worth anything is not givenaway
- segfaultbuserr 7y agoYes, it's often the time to fork and take over. But it's a big project in itself, not everyone wants to be the new developer-in-chief. Sometimes, a project can stay at the borderline of death and alive - there still can be minimum maintenance by a not-so-active developer, major distributions still have packages for it, etc. I recently sent a patch to a project - it took 11 months, but it was eventually merged when a developer with commit access finally noticed it. There was no motivation for me to fork it since all I wanted to merge was a simple fix, I was not planning to take over the project.
- duskwuff 7y agoSome zombie projects are far too large for an individual to consider maintaining. OpenOffice is a perfect example of such a project.