A fork implies new functionality or some philosophical difference. Neither is the case here.
In this case, Terminal had not even been capable of being compiled without some modification for about 2 years since it had a few very simple errors in it's source code which (to my knowledge) are still uncorrected. I didn't see this as a fork so much as a continuance of maintenance. Both Riccardo and I naturally had assumed it was dead, so we took it over.
We will discuss a name change to avoid confusion, if you are going to continue to maintain the existing version in Backbone.
Later, GC
Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer
From: Jeff Teunissen <spamtrap@d2dc.net>
To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:32:42 AM
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Terminal v0.9.5
Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> All,
>
> The GAP project has released version 0.9.5 of Terminal.
How about changing the name of GAP's fork of Terminal? The original is maintained software, and renaming a fork is generally considered to be the right thing to do.
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