On April 15, 2021 6:02:50 PM GMT+02:00, Jason Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 8:08 AM Richard Biener via Gcc ><[email protected]> wrote: >> On April 14, 2021 12:19:16 PM GMT+02:00, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc ><[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> >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.
True. That's definitely better communication. Richard. >Jason
