Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 05:28:29 02/05/03
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On February 05, 2003 at 04:38:13, Tim Mann wrote: >For those wondering what I have to do with this "WinBoard 4.3.0" release: >nothing. Daniel didn't tell me that he was working on a new version of >WinBoard. He emailed me about it for the first time today, apparently at the >same time he announced it to the rest of the world. I haven't had a chance to >look at what he's done or try it. (And I doubt I will for quite a while. My >job is keeping me very busy.) > >It's nice to see someone taking initiative, adding features and making them >availiable. But as others have already explained, if you're going to release >your own version of a free software project, you should contact the current >maintainer(s) first, and (unless they say it's OK), you should not use the next >version number in sequence as if you just took over as the maintainer. I don't >approve of Daniel's release being called WinBoard 4.3.0. I have no opinion >about it otherwise, not having looked at it. It seems exceptionally rude not to rename the code fork. Dave
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