[openstack-dev] How to handle forking of projects

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Thu Jun 6 09:53:35 UTC 2013


Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 10:34 +0200, Matthias Runge wrote:
>> Hey,
>> I came to this question over the the following review:
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/31725/
>>
>> The situation is: Horizon ships a bundled library query-table-sorter,
>> which hasn't seen a release since ages.
>> The proposed commit changes the bundled lib, effectively creating a fork.
>>
>> Is that allowed/desired, or how should we handle this?
> 
> I agree with you that we should avoid forking a library.

We should avoid bundling in the first place... But those one-file .js
projects put those good principles to a hard reality test by making it
very convenient to copy and very inconvenient to depend on.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack



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