On 07/06, Dimitris Papastamos wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 09:30:25PM +0200, Džen wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Dimitris Papastamos <s...@2f30.org> wrote: > > > I've forked scron[0] [...] > > > > Why fork scron if you could just provide useful patches to the original > > author? > > Why do you assume that? >
I can't speak for Dzen, but the wording of your first message in the thread gave me the same impression. We basically have two messages in the discussion thread to work with: One from the original author anouncing the project, and one from you a couple days later telling everyone you've forked the project and patches should be sent your way instead of vice versa. No feature requests, no bugs mentioned---just "send me patches." The fact that a private discussion took place regarding the future of the project isn't mentioned, and without that context it can appear as though you're taking over someone else's project without cause. So Dzen may have assumed the above because that was what your language (and lack of information) implied. Be mindful of such things in the future. Dzen may have made an improper assumption, but so did you, the second you decided telling people what was going on was too much bother for you and folks would just figure it out themselves. - Bigby -- "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
