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Running a fork is a lot of work. You need your fixes upstreamed so that you don't need to backport other people's fixes
by arwineap 5mo ago
Running a fork is a lot of work. You need your fixes upstreamed so that you don't need to backport other people's fixes
- lokar 5mo agoFor a couple months? Not a big deal
- bawolff 5mo agoNobody said doing it yourself was neccesarily easy. Its just an option that is there.
- layer8 5mo agoYou don’t need to backport other people’s fixes. You only need to re-merge your patches into updated versions of the upstream (aka vendor branch), which usually is straightforward. Maybe you mean that if there are many people like you, they’d want to integrate each other’s fixes. But then you’d probably have the combined manpower to start maintaining a true fork.