20 Sep
2013
20 Sep
'13
1:39 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold(a)arnoldarts.de> wrote:
it is also much easier for project maintainers to handle pull requests than
simple patches, which means that someone having their own fork on github
can actually be doing the project a service, rather than seeking to "split"
from it.
--p
(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?)
Creating a fork and not doing anything: Either the local experiments
didn't work out. Or one needs just a stable(*) version at a certain url
for personal use.