Fork me, I’m Famous
Jamis Buck announced it yesterday :
“I’m ceasing development on SQLite/Ruby, SQLite3/Ruby, Net::SSH (and related libs, Net::SFTP, Net::SCP, etc.) and Capistrano. I will no longer be accepting patches, bug reports, support requests, feature requests, or general emails related to any of these projects. For Capistrano, I will continue to follow the mailing list, and might appear in the #capistrano irc channel from time to time, but I am no longer the maintainer of these projects. I will continue to host the capify.org site and wiki for as long as they are of use to people.”
He is ceasing his popular Ruby projects and in my humble opinion, these need forks at least to maintain the code up-to-date.
“That’s entirely up to the community. If you have a neat idea for any of these, please feel free to fork the project on GitHub (see my profile page for the links to the individual projects) and release updates on your own schedule. If no one steps forward, that’s fine—I’m not asking for volunteers. But if someone feels passionately that any of these are not “finished”, and has ideas for how they could be further improved, I will not stand in the way.”
Despite my will to do so, I am still at the learning stage with Ruby, I cannot handle this for now, yet. The best I can do is to pass the word around the world.
Capistrano is used by hundreds of people and businesses.. hopefully people continue to commit to it. Unfortunately I have so many projects under my belt at the moment I have no time :(
vlad
http://rubyhitsquad.com/Vlad_the_Deployer.html
Interesting project Jim, thanks for sharing.
Those are all important projects, I wish they’ll continue to remain a standard and not broken up by different people and different implementations. Having said that, I don’t want to discourage people to fork projects, it’s a great way to learn.
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Yeah, I had a back and forth a while ago with one of the github guys about this issue… it’s great that you can fork stuff so easily, but people don’t want to compare 343243 sort-of complete, hacked up versions of some project, they want one place to go to to get the code, and be reasonably sure that they’re getting the focus of development efforts.
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I don’t think it’s really an either/or choice. You can have loads of forks on Github but still have a central place for those who just want to download code. I think the really cool thing about Github is that it makes it easy to experiment with the code in public. It also makes it very easy to collect up any changes other people have made and integrate them into a single tree.It will be interesting to see what happens with these projects. Hopefully there will be a few forks as people try things out then one person (or group of people) will step forward to manage an "official" release. Presumably that person would set up a website for them (or take over the existing one) and not use the Github project as the sole means of distribution.
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I hope it works out. If things go well, it may take place as you suggest… I think it’s too early to tell, though.
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