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Is it a way to work on FOSS in decentralized or even distributed manner? Without relaying on the Github index as the critical point.
by aabbcc1241 5y ago
Is it a way to work on FOSS in decentralized or even distributed manner? Without relaying on the Github index as the critical point.
- kbenson 5y agoSure, fork it and have alternate implementations and releases. This will necessarily fragment the namespace for it though, and the only way around that is to have some shared responsibility for making releases, and at that point, you might as well have enough shared admin responsibilities on the one repo, and the problem is also solved. Another way to look at it is that this is not a problem of lack of solutions, it a problem that the person or people at the bottleneck (merging pull requests, testing and releasing) haven't shared that responsibility with enough additional people so this isn't a problem. That, or there's some legal case in the background and they are under advisement to not work on or respond to anything to do with this repository. That seems just as likely in my eyes. Doesn't change the situation though, this repo is effectively dead right now (but someone could fork and start applying an releasing if they wanted AFAICT).