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This looks and feels very promising, nice. Is there any documentation on the difference between this fork and the original project? https://github.com/hooram/

This looks and feels very promising, nice. Is there any documentation on the difference between this fork and the original project? https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos

sammorrowdrums 6y ago
Appears there have been a bunch of fixes. There are also 217 forks of OwnPhotos. https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos/compare/dev...LibrePhotos:dev https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos/compare/dev...LibrePhoto... I don't know if the original repo and LibrePhotos will permanently diverge (that appears to be the intention), but I like you am a bit confused at the necessity for a permanent fork and I'd like to know more too before committing to a version.
- technojunkie 6y ago
  Wow, I didn't know Github had that feature, thanks for the link! Maybe the two repo authors can come together and sync the projects since both are so closely related. Nonetheless, I hope there will be more information via a changelog or an outline with differences and intentions. It's one of the more impressive projects I've seen to replace Google Photos so I hope there's a lot of transparency!
  - derneuere 6y ago
    Hey, here is a dev from LibrePhotos. The original project is abandoned and pull request do not get merge anymore. That's why we started with a new fork.
- dastx 6y ago
  My understanding from the reddit post was that it was forked due to the original seemingly being abandoned.
  - oarsinsync 6y ago
    Given the last commit on ownphotos is from 2019, that seems likely and reasonable
    - sammorrowdrums 6y ago
      At some point it might also be worth detaching the fork too in that case.
      - oarsinsync 6y ago
        What do you mean by detaching the fork?
        RyJones 6y ago
        You can send a ticket to GitHub support to have a project appear to have no parent project (detach the fork)
        oarsinsync 6y ago
        Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation! I think that's a terrible idea, disregarding the origins and removing an element of credit and attribution to the original authors. Be proud of where you came from, don't try to hide it.
        alisonkisk 6y ago
        The problem is that the original is defunct but "fork" on GitHub assumes that the fork is going to merge changes upstream. Credit goes in the credits file, not polluting every interaction with the project.
        unityByFreedom 6y ago
        What pollution? It's just a link to the project's origin.

sammorrowdrums 6y ago

Appears there have been a bunch of fixes. There are also 217 forks of OwnPhotos. https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos/compare/dev...LibrePhotos:dev https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos/compare/dev...LibrePhoto... I don't know if the original repo and LibrePhotos will permanently diverge (that appears to be the intention), but I like you am a bit confused at the necessity for a permanent fork and I'd like to know more too before committing to a version.

technojunkie 6y ago
Wow, I didn't know Github had that feature, thanks for the link! Maybe the two repo authors can come together and sync the projects since both are so closely related. Nonetheless, I hope there will be more information via a changelog or an outline with differences and intentions. It's one of the more impressive projects I've seen to replace Google Photos so I hope there's a lot of transparency!
- derneuere 6y ago
  Hey, here is a dev from LibrePhotos. The original project is abandoned and pull request do not get merge anymore. That's why we started with a new fork.
dastx 6y ago
My understanding from the reddit post was that it was forked due to the original seemingly being abandoned.
- oarsinsync 6y ago
  Given the last commit on ownphotos is from 2019, that seems likely and reasonable
  - sammorrowdrums 6y ago
    At some point it might also be worth detaching the fork too in that case.
    - oarsinsync 6y ago
      What do you mean by detaching the fork?
      - RyJones 6y ago
        You can send a ticket to GitHub support to have a project appear to have no parent project (detach the fork)
        oarsinsync 6y ago
        Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation! I think that's a terrible idea, disregarding the origins and removing an element of credit and attribution to the original authors. Be proud of where you came from, don't try to hide it.
        alisonkisk 6y ago
        The problem is that the original is defunct but "fork" on GitHub assumes that the fork is going to merge changes upstream. Credit goes in the credits file, not polluting every interaction with the project.
        unityByFreedom 6y ago
        What pollution? It's just a link to the project's origin.