A month of inactivity and an issue that is 12 days old, and someone is trying to fork the project under a new name?
Seems kind of fickle and impatient. Gogs is a great project, and that thread doesn't seem to imply that it's dead only on a brief hiatus. If development resumes will the new fork merge back in, or will it try to compete?
> It's impatient only if it's a permanent fork. If they merge it in once he gets back, no harm done.
The forked readme.md replaces the contact email in: "If you think there are vulnerabilities in the project, please talk privately to u@gogs.io. Thanks!"
Sure. Technically and legally, you could package that code up and sell it.
The maintainer didn't just make a simple fork. He renamed it, bought a domain, all behind the owners back while he's on vacation.
From an etiquette standpoint, I wouldn't want to work with a maintainer who just hijacks projects. Based on the behavior I've seen, I'm saddened to see this.
This project's contributors are Chinese: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/graphs/contributors. The gross majority of the commits come from a few people - the project has been around for years. And over a period of a few weeks, this happened, by an outsider.
They are probably gfw'd and have difficulty finding a VPN.
Usually quick and dirty, actually no most forks, don't go anywhere... because of the immense amount of effort needed. Once in a while forks become things like WordPress... but not too often.
There is nothing harsh about forking a project. This is exactly the intent of the original license choosen explicitly by the author(s).
Have you read the licence ?
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions
If the author did not want any fork, they would have chosen another one. period.
People should learn about open source before starting bitching and whining about "hijacking". Hijacking, really ? That's not even possible with opensource: forking, sharing, modifying, that's _exactly_ the open source spirit and it's actually backed by the license.
Readme.md's Acknowledgments and Contributors sections appear to still be in place, with the credit-improving (IMO) change of replacing the link text "core team" to "gogs team".
What else would you expect? The github forked-from notice if you use the github button instead of git to fork, I guess? Anything else?
Why? There is still the version history and the admins of the organizations are the top contributors beside of Unknwon ;). I just started to contribute smaller pieces...
Really interesting how the people start to bitch around even if they don't know any background story. The two guys that created the fork of Gogs are cofounders of Gogs abd they have been in the organization for a long while...
Unknwon does some other stuff now and seems to not care about gogs anymore and as far as i know he's not willing to accept other contributors or people in the organization that gauns write access. So now there is the fork Gitea which gets lots of attention and already multiple bugfixes. The for months outstanding feature of pull requests will be done pretty soon as well. Ah, and I forgot to mention that the project title still shows that it's a gogs fork beside of some files that are still named gogs.
I forgot to mention that I'm one of the gitea maintainers now and that there is some other communication beside of the issues as well like gitter chat or email ;)
GitLab CEO here, we did some informal performance testing comparing GitLab and Gogs and we could not find a big difference in most operations. The only thing that was slow was the web-editor and everything else to do with satellites, we'll remove satellites from the web-editor in 7.13 and will work to completely remove them from GitLab. What speed difference stood out for you?
Thanks! When @lunny finishes the outstand pull request feature it should be a real alternative as it is damn lightweight. There are already plans to im prove the UI as well :)
Yeah but circumnavigating the firewall is illegal, no? Even if you're an amazing programmer it still might not be worth doing it if all you're going to do is reply to some Github issues.
Where did you get this crap? @lunny and @fuxiaohei have created the fork and they are the admins. They are the main contributors to gogs with @Unknwon...
Seems kind of fickle and impatient. Gogs is a great project, and that thread doesn't seem to imply that it's dead only on a brief hiatus. If development resumes will the new fork merge back in, or will it try to compete?