MSBuild is now open source on GitHub

Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub by mynameisvlad on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @06:05PM (#9228988)

At least two of those currently have branches checked out with the word "fix" in the branch name. I'd wager that the owners of those forks are using them to fix something, hence "seriously".

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Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub by akoeplinger on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @06:19PM (#9229057)

One of those two is my fork and yes I did it to fix something, but edandersen's point was more geared towards a real fork (i.e. something that takes the project into a different direction) instead of the fork that GitHub requires to send a PR.

I agree with him, we already have a bunch of popular .NET build tools other than MSBuild like FAKE, basing one off of MSBuild doesn't seem to add a lot of value imho.

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Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub by duaneb on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @06:50PM (#9229176)

I mean, it's not like people are forking gcc daily. Not all open source is valuable because of the forks.

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Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub by andrewchambers on Thursday March 19, 2015 @12:10AM (#9230152)

People committing to gcc probably have workflows that predate github. I think there are many "forks" that are just done as fixes on a local machine then sent directly as a patch.

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Re:MSBuild is now open source on GitHub by duaneb on Thursday March 19, 2015 @10:14AM (#9232024)

Sorry, I wasn't talking about forks the github term, I was referring to forking the project. It's useful to have open source available just for maintenance.

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