https://github.com/decomplect/mori

#C0J9ENAMS

all help welcome

What’s the deal with the fork?

not a big deal, is it

no, I just mean, why?

haha

usually people have a reason for announcing a fork

david is too busy

huh, no kidding

I’m not sure if you’ve talked to him about this, but another approach would be asking if he’d be willing to add you as a maintainer

building support for a fork without explicit approval from the author tends to be viewed as hostile and is unlikely to gain traction

ah, just saw the conversation in #C03S1L9DN

not sure the fork will be successful, but good luck in either case

it’s a cool library. needs an active maintainer.

what is success

I've forked other projects in order to get things done - not hostile

anyone can fork my projects

forking to do your own thing is totally nbd

but usually not publicized

oh

didn't know that

what if doing my own thing would benefit others

usually forks are publicized if (a) for some reason the project has really fallen into disrepair (which does seem to be sort of the case here), or (b) the forker is interested in taking the project in a very different direction from the primary author

both might be true here, I don't know

like david I have little time to spare

but it seemed the right thing to do

so I did it

and didn't want it to be a secret or perceived poorly, so I announced it

so there would be no misunderstanding of my intent, which is just to help

yeah

anyways, like I said, it does need an active maintainer, and I wish you luck

I forked it and created a channel and that's it until I get help figuring out the best way forward for those who need it

tyvm

I hope others will step up to maintain it because I sure cannot

I think it might be worth checking in with David before going down this route, but one approach if you really wanted to add value would be to go through the outstanding PRs on Mori-main and seeing what’s mergeable and merging them into your fork and notifying those authors

and I didn't want to waste david's time

I thought david was pretty clear in his reply to me

I did ask on behalf of that person who brought it up

isn't this why github makes it easy to fork

I thought open source was about ego-less coding and the greater good

that's why I put it under an org account, not my own

I have no personal stake in this

I just want to help the community

@dnolen: is this ok with you

@venantius: thank you - didn't realize this might be an issue

I have only been doing clojure for 8 months

I really do not care one way or the other

ok

thanks

godspeed sir

ty both

you guys are awesome