There are a lot of instances where that may not be practical. The maintainer may be indisposed or may be even passed away. Perhaps we shouldn’t attach too much significance to the name. Instead, make projects more discoverable and get creative with the names.
The forks could just change their name, so they’re more easily found. For example mRemote got pretty much abandoned, so mRemoteNG got created.
Or people give forks better names. For example, I’ve forked some dotnet6 project, and called the fork {project}-dotnet8 - then when people look thought the fork list on github, it’s not 20 forks all with the same name
It’d be nice if the original maintainer would let the active fork take over the main name, repo, website, etc. when that happened.
There are a lot of instances where that may not be practical. The maintainer may be indisposed or may be even passed away. Perhaps we shouldn’t attach too much significance to the name. Instead, make projects more discoverable and get creative with the names.
The forks could just change their name, so they’re more easily found. For example mRemote got pretty much abandoned, so mRemoteNG got created.
Or people give forks better names. For example, I’ve forked some dotnet6 project, and called the fork {project}-dotnet8 - then when people look thought the fork list on github, it’s not 20 forks all with the same name