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Re:Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in w... by fireattack on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:05PM (#19667952)
The wording on Wikipedia doesn't seem to match what actually happened.

IIRC, Raymond Hill, the original author of uBlock and current maintainer of uBlock Origin, voluntarily gave the control of uBlock project to Chris Aljoudi because he was tired of dealing with all the bug reports/issues (and Aljoudi offered to take it over, I think).

But due to various reasons, shortly (very shortly, maybe even no gap in between) after, he self-forked uBlock [1] to make uBlock Origin and started to work on it again.

So technically uBlock Origin is the fork, and more importantly, Chris Aljoudi didn't really "fork uBlock", he inherited the main repo.

Note: I'm by no means to defend Aljoudi's practice on uBlock and I'm pretty sure Hill regretted his decision of handing it over. But let's avoid historical revisionism.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150427225211/https://github.co...

(See the "forked from chrisaljoudi/uBlock" text and readme.MD below)

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Edit: [2] Hill's own words about this matter on Apr 11, 2015: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/38#issuecomment-918...

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Re:Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in w... by AnaniasAnanas on Monday April 15, 2019 @04:31PM (#19668647)
Please correct me if I am mistaken, but wasn't https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock where the original uBlock was hosted at? Gorhill might had declared Raymond to be the "owner" of uBlock but to me it is not clear that uBlock Origin is a fork by any means.
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Re:Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in w... by fireattack on Monday April 15, 2019 @04:46PM (#19668747)
It was.

But he later fully transferred (everything, including stars issues and whatever) the repo to Aljoudi (you can do that on GitHub) so it was under Aljoudi's namespace. Then, Hill forked it back, which eventually became the repo for uBlock Origin we have today. It doesn't show "forked from xxx" any more today for reasons I don't know (maybe he recreated it?), but you can still see it in the archive version of it I linked above (you can also check older dates and Chris' one, to show the transfer more clearly).

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Re:Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in w... by AnaniasAnanas on Monday April 15, 2019 @04:49PM (#19668791)
Interesting, I did not know that you could transfer repos this way on github, thanks.
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