Thread: [SailfishOS] WhoGo Maps fork looks for name and visual identity
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2018-08-21 , 16:53
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#41
Originally Posted by nthn View Post
Is it really necessary to split off, though? It would be the third virtually identical map application in the timespan of a year. Is there no way to co-author? If you suddenly find yourself in need of more time to review your own changes, is someone else going to create another fork, and then another, and one more? These applications are already more or less one-man projects, I don't think losing the coordinated development you have going on now is a good thing.
I liked the current arrangement on coordinated development very much. Unfortunately, as Osmo told me, he's planning to at least pause the development for some time. I am sure he will drop a note on it. Hence his suggestion to fork the app. I presume it allows him to continue from the point he feels comfortable.

An alternative would be to form a group in github and transfer WhoGo there. That's what we did with sailfish-keyboard project and it worked very well in terms of joining the forces. But then we still signed / approved all releases together.

Maybe forming a group is better, I am surely open for it.
 

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