[meego-packaging] Hostile forks

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud]

Ross Burton wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> So I've been investigating using Tumbler (thumbnailing daemon) in a
> project I'm working on.  OBS Trunk had Tumbler 0.1.1 -- very old -- so I
> naturally grabbed upstream git and started patching it to suit our
> needs, with the aim of updating OBS Trunk to the latest release this
> week before the feature freeze.
> 
> Then I find out that Tumbler 0.1.12 was just submitted to Trunk:Testing
> by Maitrey Mishra from Nokia.  This confused me greatly because the
> upstream (XFCE-hosted) Tumbler is currently version 0.1.6 (released
> January 16th 2011).
> 
> Does MeeGo have a policy on hostile forks that don't change name but
> continue the versioning as if they were their own?  I'd expect the
> policy to be "don't do that" but apparently not, because this isn't the
> first instance that comes to mind.
> 
> Ross

Hi Ross, 

note that I had mentionned some similar issues back in October [0], in 
meego-dev.

I was not satisfied by the answers back then, and I'm really not comfortable 
with this way of treating with other upstreams: I don't think it's correct 
to hijack a project's name and codebase.

Looking forward to enlightenment statements on those actions; cheers,

OdyX

[0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.meego.devel/6417