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There's a term on the tip of my tongue and I am hoping you all can help me out.

On GitHub, or with any open-source software project more generally, when one group of developers forks a project because they are unhappy with its direction, it is sometimes times informally called… what? The term is generally used to describe the act of creating a new project from an existing one, due to dissatisfaction with the original project's direction. I think it fits the pattern *forking, but I'm not positive.

I have been seeing the word "cadence" used in technical settings more and more often, usually referring to the pace or rate at which a process is executed (e.g., software releases, data dumps, meetings).

What is the etymology/origin of this technical sense of "cadence"? (Part of me fears the answer might be Peloton…)