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I think they'd benefit much more if they used their position as the killer git app in order to help git go mainstream. Having git be universal in the Ruby/Rail
by jpcx01 18y ago
I think they'd benefit much more if they used their position as the killer git app in order to help git go mainstream.
Having git be universal in the Ruby/Rails world has been a huge accellerator for maintaing open source projects. No longer are we subject to core teams losing interest, anyone can fork and become the new core team.
- davidw 18y agoAnyone at all can and does fork, which, yeah, is great and all, but until they fiddle some more with the UI or something, makes it really difficult for other people to figure out who the heck the core team is. It's not like it wasn't possible to fork stuff in the past, it just required a little bit more effort... enough so that you didn't just get random copies of stuff all over the place. I wonder if you get a projects bugs if you fork it?
- tvon 18y agoIt's kind of the nature of the beast. If you make forking and merging simple, people will do it on a whim. An indicator for the original code would maybe be useful, but it would lead to confusion when, for example, the original maintainers fade away and another repo becomes the pseudo-canonical tree.