> When was the last time anyone saw a maintainer thank someone for creating a fork? It's probably happened. The closest I've seen was when Cython was forked f

> When was the last time anyone saw a maintainer thank someone for creating a fork? It's probably happened. The closest I've seen was when Cython was forked from Pyrex* because Sage developers had needs that the Pyrex author wasn't interested in developing or maintaining. It was an amicable fork, and for quite some time Cython development cohabited with Pyrex and some patches were upstreamed as they fit Greg's purposes. http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/pyrex/2006-November/002077.html http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/pyrex/2006-November/00207... http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/pyrex/2007-July/002480.html http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/pyrex/2007-July/002480.ht... * there was a brief period when the fork was named SageX, which was, regrettably, my sarcastic spitball. Fortunately, several devs were huge Battlestar Gallactica fans and they eventually settled on the name Cython around the time it was spun off to its own project.