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In that sense of the word, I already have made a fork. But I think it would be useful if my patch helped other people's version of the code be faster too. A for
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
In that sense of the word, I already have made a fork. But I think it would be useful if my patch helped other people's version of the code be faster too. A forked version of the code that alters 3 characters in one place and is never maintained does not help with that even a little bit.
Given a choice of the version of the code that maintained, and the version of the code where one function is much faster, but is abandoned, how many do you think will go looking for the latter?
- m3047 4y agoYou're not a stranger here. I looked through your submissions for one about the specific issue at hand, didn't see anything about OpenNLP. Even if it doesn't stay on page 1 for days a Show HN is a submission, and people can look for it in your submissions. Things like that. It's an example of not helping them find it. Maybe you don't even need the code, or all the code. Maybe it's a common enough issue that a blog post or Show HN with _just that_ would be enough. Heck, a Twitter thread: less is more!
- marginalia_nu 4y agoWell I'm not going to submit it to HN. I have no reason to expect the developers of OpenNLP to read HN. Overall I'm not going to promote a fork I have no desire or intention of maintaining. That would just be misleading people. I don't want to be an OpenNLP developer.