On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:08 AM Richard Biener via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > On April 14, 2021 12:19:16 PM GMT+02:00, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc > <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > >N.B. Jeff is no longer @redhat.com so I've changed the CC > >On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 11:03, Thomas Koenig <tkoe...@netcologne.de> > >wrote: > >> - All gfortran developers move to the new branch. This will not > >> happen, I can guarantee you that. > > > >This is the part I'm curious about (the rest is obvious, it follows > >from there being finite resources and the nature of any fork). But I'm > >not going to press for reasons. > > Note the only viable fork will be on the current hosting (which isn't FSF > controlled) with the downside of eventually losing the gcc.gnu.org DNS and > thus a need to "switch" to a sourceware.org name.
It seems wrong to call such a scenario a fork. If someone wanted to fork GCC they are free to do so, but changing the relationship with GNU/FSF is not a fork, as there would continue to be one primary source repository. Jason
