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People think it's easy to create a durable fork that will gain enough traction to live on many years (in a stable manner) and attract contributors. It's not. Ju
by juliend2 6y ago
People think it's easy to create a durable fork that will gain enough traction to live on many years (in a stable manner) and attract contributors. It's not. Just look at the tons of forks on github for abandonned opensource projects.
Let's say there are 10 people willing to fork it to keep it simple as it was previously. Where is the go-to place for that to happen in the open source world?
- tambourine_man 6y agoIt's very hard, that's what I was trying to say. In your 10 people example, it seems that there are a few problems to me: - finding like minded peers - getting critical mass (are 10 enough to maintain the fork?) - getting them all to agree on what subset of features to keep If I were in the market for a fork, I would search Github first before forking my own, so I think the first item is basically solved. The second varies on a case by case basis, of course. The third seems more critical to me, probably dispersing the effort more than anything else.