Re: Tracking forks of dead upstreams

2016-09-14 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 01:30:18PM +, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > What to do when a project with a dead upstream is "forked" and > development continues under the same name > Patrick very quickly replied and declined with (IMHO very reasonable) [...] > arguments > > * people still associate g

Re: Tracking forks of dead upstreams

2016-09-14 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 01:30:18PM +, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > How would you generally deal with a situation like this? > > * switch homepage to github, convince github owner to tag new upstream > release and update package to new release > + properly documented where develo