[LAD] forking (was Re: Aeolus)

[Nils Gey]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:35:45 +0200
IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:

> (it became weirder in github times, as i now can see how many people
> (not really "many") people create a "public fork" without *ever* doing
> anything to it...what is that about?)

Just a quick response.
The "fork" on github is AFAIK intended for something else. Not for "stealing" and rebranding an entire project but for maintaining a working copy which then can ask for pull requests upstream, conveniently managed by github and made possible by the de-central git philosophy.

Also: The fork button there is easy to click by accident and it is inconvenient to remove such a fork from your account. So sometimes forks appear and do nothing, just because someone clicked the wrong button.

Nils