Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
by 131hn on Monday January 18, 2016 @08:14AM
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Yet, there is still differences. Allowing only "fork" is a good and easy thing.
Having a fork that delete everything and start a new projet is easy to detect and label as spam. (there will always be abuses, but it's okay as long as you can mitigate/moderate)
Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
by lmm on Monday January 18, 2016 @09:17AM
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I'd think it's pretty easy to have a policy that says "only VLC forks or VLC-related projects". What if someone wants to pull out part of VLC into its own library?
Having a fork that delete everything and start a new projet is easy to detect and label as spam. (there will always be abuses, but it's okay as long as you can mitigate/moderate)