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0 pointsmeineerde15y ago0 comments

Although it appears to be forking season at the moment, such a bold move as a fork doesn't happen just out of thin air. Yes, there were disagreements between several Redmine contributors, but I think the time is not ripe yet to spread out every detail of the conflict.

It should be suffice to say that both projects are going to continue to co-exist and probably going to be rather similar for quite some time. We don't want any bad blood between us and we are going to try to work together towards our common goal. We on the ChiliProject side just feel that more open and engaging development process helps the product and is more fun for all participants.

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headhuntermdk15y ago

When a core dev steps down from a project and forks, I see that action as a vote of no confidence in the current leadership.

While I certainly don't want to stir the pot, I do see a bit of irony in that a stated goal of ChiliProject is transparency but there isn't a lot of transparency on why the fork was created.

I fear bad blood will be inevitable as developers/users pick their sides. All that being said, I wish your project the best and I will be looking in from time to time to see if we might revaluate our issue tracker.

aaronblohowiak15y ago

Transparency in development process isn't the same as transparency in interpersonal drama.. with OSS it is hard to draw a distinction between the two sometimes. I applaud the relative civility with which this fork is happening and I appreciate the fact that we arent focusing on the drama but rather on the options and opportunities that this split creates.

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headhuntermdk15y ago

When a core dev steps down from a project and forks, I see that action as a vote of no confidence in the current leadership.

While I certainly don't want to stir the pot, I do see a bit of irony in that a stated goal of ChiliProject is transparency but there isn't a lot of transparency on why the fork was created.

aaronblohowiak15y ago

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