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From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Wget  ignores robot.txt entry
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:29:22 -0500
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Randall R Schulz wrote:

> 
> What happens to an open source project when it devolves to this state? 
> Who, for example, could hand out writable access to the wget CVS 
> repository? Surely this isn't an unrecoverable state of affairs, is it?

A fork happens.  somebody gets fed up, opens up a new sourceforge 
project (wget-ng: the next generation), snarfs in the existing wget code 
and modifies it to build "wget-ng" with a option to build as "wget".

Then, snarf in all the extant patches from the 'wget' list.  And 
suddenly, you're the new maintainer of the 'wget' project...

But it's bad form to do this if the current maintainer is just on a 
cruise.  If he's really really gone, though, I expect you'd be thanked 
and not haranged by the userbase.

--Chuck



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