Github (I presume it's all GH projects) should come up with a system that makes it easier to either take over stewardship of a codebase, or make active forks much more visible - I mean in theory if the steward of one project has effectively abandoned it, someone else can fork it and go from there. But in practice, that fork fixes one issue and gets abandoned as well, and nobody can find it (or nobody actively looks for it).
But if you can make a fork and petition for it to be seen as the "active, maintained" version, it would work a lot better I think.
In theory, open source is all about forking and the like. In practice, it's a lot of islands with single people or organizations at the "top" dominating the project, with any forks having no chance at survival unless they get merged in again.
But if you can make a fork and petition for it to be seen as the "active, maintained" version, it would work a lot better I think.
In theory, open source is all about forking and the like. In practice, it's a lot of islands with single people or organizations at the "top" dominating the project, with any forks having no chance at survival unless they get merged in again.