Adding links to vmb's fork/clone clarifcation, and to our incredible journey to disambiguate type of merges considered
This commit is contained in:
parent
84d27b32e1
commit
355a76818d
13
README.md
13
README.md
|
@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
|
||||||
This is a collection of software project forks, collected primarily to
|
This is a collection of software project forks, collected primarily to
|
||||||
exemplify the assertion of software freedoms.
|
exemplify the assertion of software freedoms.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
The term 'fork' here is used in the older, pre-GitHub sense of a division of
|
The term 'fork' here is used in the older, pre-GitHub sense of
|
||||||
community development effort into two distinct projects, rather than the
|
[a division of community development effort into two distinct projects](https://opensource.com/article/17/12/fork-clone-difference),
|
||||||
trivial sense of a clone or branch of a source code corpus used in the
|
rather than the trivial sense of a clone or branch of a source code corpus
|
||||||
normal course of development and testing of those working with or within a
|
used in the normal course of development and testing of those working with
|
||||||
project.
|
or within a project.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
In the simplest form, it should make apparent any child-parent relationships
|
In the simplest form, it should make apparent any child-parent relationships
|
||||||
amongst projects
|
amongst projects
|
||||||
|
@ -19,5 +19,6 @@ disposition of the child projects, influence on other projects,
|
||||||
characterization of cooperation between or among child projects after the
|
characterization of cooperation between or among child projects after the
|
||||||
fork including any later merging of the projects.
|
fork including any later merging of the projects.
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
Merges of distinctly-originated projects will also be considered.
|
Merges of distinctly-originated projects will also be considered. If so, the
|
||||||
|
focus is on code bases rather than on [companies](https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/).
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|
Loading…
Reference in New Issue