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I've seen smooth transitions between de facto ownership of projects a ton, but never a bitter divide where both ends are actively maintained. One pathological

I've seen smooth transitions between de facto ownership of projects a ton, but never a bitter divide where both ends are actively maintained. One pathological example is delayed_job, which has changed 'leadership' a few times over the years. It's still pretty easy to look at the 'network' graph and choose the endpoint you want... or just use the published gem.

xdissent 15y ago
I've been the leader of a project I assumed from another guy that he assumed from yet another guy and then the original guy even assumed leadership back after a while. No one missed a beat. If you're involved in this community, you are most likely capable of tracking down the "correct" fork. Unfortunately, the "published gem" part is the one that has given me the most trouble historically. But now that pretty much everyone uses bundler for gems this should be a nonissue - you can even specify a branch of a fork that you'd like to build.