Re: ANNOUNCE: Terminal v0.9.5

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Zhang,

I agree with you, it is really a maintenance release with just a few more
bits thrown in. Alex, the original author, was brilliant, but left the
application somewhat orphaned. To avoid confusion this scheme offers the
most transpaent transition for packagers and users.

If Alexander or others wish to take development up again, at the next
release we could discuss the thing again. Alexander and otehrs are of course
open to join the GAP team and work there. If other developers want to work
on Backbone instead, things might even evelove that Backbone adds new
functionality that makes it a fork, reversing the situation. I'd delay
anything to the next release.

Riccardo
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zhang Weiwu" <zhangweiwu@realss.com>
To: "Gregory John Casamento" <greg_casamento@yahoo.com>
Cc: <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>; <deek@d2dc.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Terminal v0.9.5


> Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> > A fork implies new functionality or some philosophical difference.
> > Neither is the case here.
> >
> Hi. As a user I love the way to "fork" it using the original name as
> long as the original author doesn't complain. It reduces confusion to
> new users instead of creating confusions as some developer may think.
> The alive version quickly tops Google result that users start to use a
> more maintained version without knowing something happened. The original
> author may lost contact or no longer working and that's not the reason
> to force user to get used to a new name and document authors to update
> everything written.
>