Is gogs dead?

https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1304

by dilipray • 11 years ago

37 28 11 years ago

nrub• 11 years ago

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?

x5n12• 11 years ago

you never know... let it be, the perils of open sourcing your shit.

anon3_4• 11 years ago

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.

anon3_4• 11 years ago

In my opinion, this isn't a fork, but a naked hijacking:

- No really consensus / official decision on the issue

- http://gitea.io/

- "Git with a cup of tea,"

When it's done so fast, it feels like a coup.

I understand the right to fork a project, but for a maintainer to be AFK from issues for a few weeks to necessitate a fork is harsh.

dilipray• 11 years ago

Exactly, He didn't even give the other guy credits on his work.

garthk• 11 years ago

Now it's serving or proxying gogs.io.

invaliduser• 11 years ago

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.

skybrian• 11 years ago

It's impatient only if it's a permanent fork. If they merge it in once he gets back, no harm done.

Not sure why it showed up here, though.

MaulingMonkey2• 11 years ago

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!"

That doesn't seem like a temporary fork maneuver.

fortytw2• 11 years ago

As they say, the creator is abroad, probably doesn't have much time to work on it. Far from dead, by any stretch of the imagination.

untog2• 11 years ago

What's the problem with @Unknwon being in the states? Don't they have internet access there?

Sigh. I don't know, maybe he's on holiday and you're not entitled to demand a response from him?

anon3_4• 11 years ago

He studies / works in the USA. He's chinese. He may be back home in China for vacation. Github + gmail is blocked by gfw

ideal0227• 11 years ago

Github is not blocked.

xiaq• 11 years ago

Come on. GFW does not make an actual difference for a decent programmer...

astockwell• 11 years ago

I'm even more skeptical of the fork's intentions given that the fork-er has never even contributed code to gogs [1].

[1] https://github.com/gogits/gogs/graphs/contributors

tboerger5• 11 years ago

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...

tboerger5• 11 years ago

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.

tboerger5• 11 years ago

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 ;)

xvilka• 11 years ago

I wish you luck, gogs is a very nice project. I hope the gogs + drone will become a faster alternative to GitLab + GitLab CI

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