Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack

[Devin Jeanpierre]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope that pyjamas can be restored at some point to a single live
> project. Whether that's headed by Luke Leighton or C Anthony Risinger
> (neither of whom I know at all and thus I can't speak to either's
> merits) or someone else, I don't particularly care, but frankly, I
> don't think there's need in the world for a fork of such a project.
> Aside from philosophical disagreements, what would be the differences
> between the Luke fork and the Anthony fork? Could anyone explain, to a
> prospective user, why s/he should pick one or the other? If not, the
> projects need to merge, or else one will die a sad death of
> stagnation.

There is no "both projects". there was Luke's project, and then
Risinger stole it and it's Risinger's project. There is only that one
thing -- Luke has no """fork""" of his own codebase.

I guess it won't die of stagnation, eh? It'll be a perfectly usable,
stable project, led by a thief.

-- Devin