Here's my 5 cents:
Go ahead, make the fork. That's the beauty of open source: Everyone can
make a fork if there is something wrong with the "official" version. As for
what to include, I'd like to see the enhanced test driver (without extra
dependencies) included.
-Ville
Sean Farrell <sean.farr...@rioki.org> wrote on 30.11.2009 23:33:56:
> Hi,
>
> now here is my viewpoint on forking:
>
> In general I am against forking, it can really hurt a free software
> project. If the devs let me in as maintainer in at the Source Forge, I
> will happily work on the "official" code. But if that does not happen,
> it is technically impossible to work on the "official" version. If I
> have to fork I will clone the official repository with git and thus
> merging changes back into it should be relatively easy.
>
> On patch submission and rating:
>
> In general I would rate a patch (or feature of the patch) by how
> "loud" the discussion was in the mailing list and how many people back
> the patch today. I will also factor in the feasibility and how it fits
> into the current library. For example you will not see the MFC test
> runner in the main library; a separate library maybe.
>
> Sean
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Patrick Johnmeyer <pjohnme...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Vlad Roubtsov
<vlad.roubt...@teza.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Just trying to understand the process, however informal it might be.
> >>
> >> On Nov 30, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Vlad wrote:
> >>
> >> > Who decides which patches are "valuable" ?
> >
> > Note that per my previous message I'm not for the fork, but if Sean F.
> > decides to go ahead and do something semi-official:
> > I think the only 'fair' way to do this would be to use uservoice or
> > something like it, and have people on this list go vote up items. This
> > still requires one or two people with veto power (ideally the
maintainers)
> > to shut down changes that are not 'in the spirit' of UT++. Is there a
way
> > to find out how many people are on the distribution list? Certainly
active
> > participation has been much lower than 100 voters (the limit for a free
> > uservoice account).
> >
> >>
> >> >
> >> > On Nov 30, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Sean Farrell wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi everybody,
> >> >>
> >> >> I am currently thinking of taking the source, "forking" it,
applying
> >> >> the valuable patches and making a 1.5 release. The way I know the
> >
>
>
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