Re: Taggit fragmentation

Hi Russ

I understand that Alex is busy doing other things now. But he is the owner of the django-taggit repo. If someone is searching for django-taggit it's his repo that shows up.

What you are suggesting, creating my own fork and fixing my issues there is not the solution. It would only lead to even more fragmentation. And I'm sure some of the 114 forkers already fixed a lot. That's why they've sent out pull requests.

I believe that if you publish a repo and you are the main contributor then it is your responsibility to maintain it. If you don't have time, then hand it over to someone else or just give someone else the rights to push into your repo. I'm not asking Alex to fix all bugs himself, because most of the bugs have already been fixed by other people. He or someone with the rights to his repo just has to review the code and merge the pull requests, or deny them and guide the helper to a better solution. That would not take too long.

True, it's easy for me to just complain here without helping out. But there are others that are fare more involved in the project than me. I have several repos myself that I'm maintaining.

The approach of 'I just fix it myself' is maybe not the right one. If there are that many people working on one project it's probably better to just talk to each other first and coordinate the efforts.

Regards
Simon


Am 29.05.2012 um 01:27 schrieb Russell Keith-Magee:

> Hi Simon,
>
>
> So - if you're not happy with the state of django-taggit, then it's up
> to *you* -- not anybody else -- to fix the problem. Roll up your
> sleeves and get involved. Start addressing some of the tickets.
> Generate a private branch that merges all the pull requests. You say
> the hcarvalhoalves fork is the most maintained? Start submitting pull
> requests to them, instead of Alex. If they don't respond, start
> publicising your own fork. And when you've put in enough effort to
> show that you're serious, consider contacting Alex directly and see if
> he's interested in sharing ownership of the project, or passing the
> project off to you completely.
>

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