Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 05:34:05 02/05/03
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On February 05, 2003 at 08:28:29, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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. I think that is a mistake too, but let's not get carried away here, his intensions were good and clearly he did some work on it. We need someone else to take over the project if Tim doesn't want to do it anymore. I'd hate to see winboard suffer a slow dead, and that will most certainly happen sooner or later if no one cares. -S. >Dave
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