From 03382226511dd1f04cc94ce8aa1f189005f453de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holger Weiss Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 00:46:54 +0100 Subject: doc/faq/fork.md: Various small changes Apply a few changes that hopefully improve the "Did you fork the Nagios Plugins?" FAQ item a bit. diff --git a/web/input/doc/faq/fork.md b/web/input/doc/faq/fork.md index 5057b80..4aab4f9 100644 --- a/web/input/doc/faq/fork.md +++ b/web/input/doc/faq/fork.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ parent: FAQ # Did you fork the Nagios Plugins? -TL;DR: No. They forked us. +Short answer: No. They forked us. Long answer: @@ -17,35 +17,38 @@ important anyway. However, because you asked, here's our view on the happenings. -Originally, there was a Nagios Plugins project that was maintained by us; -i.e., a [team][team] of volunteers not affiliated with [Nagios -Enterprises][enterprises]. In 2011, we transferred the `nagios-plugins.org` -domain to Nagios Enterprises on their request. This transfer was coupled with -an [agreement][agreement] that we would continue to run the project -independently. Early in 2014, Nagios Enterprises copied most of our web site -and changed the DNS records to point to their web space instead, which then -served a slightly modified version of our site including the tarballs we -created. This was done without prior notice. Presumably, their -[reasoning][reasoning] for this move was that they weren't happy with us -[mentioning Icinga and Shinken][mentioning] on our home page. - -So, today there are two projects: - -One driven by the team that lost its domain, but that did the actual -maintenance work in the past, and that continues to maintain the same project -with the same infrastructure (e.g., the GitHub [repositories][repositories] -and [trackers][trackers], the [mailing lists][support], and the [automated -test builds][tests]) under the new name. - -The other project is driven by the company that controls the domain. - -So, if you ask us (as you did by definition when reading this): They clearly -forked us, not vice versa. We just see two differences to a "typical" fork -which makes this case less obvious: - -1. The project that has been forked didn't own its domain name. -2. The project that performed the fork did so without showing any previous - development activities. +* Originally, there was a Nagios Plugins project that was maintained by us; + i.e., a [team][team] of volunteers not affiliated with [Nagios + Enterprises][enterprises]. +* In 2011, we transferred the `nagios-plugins.org` domain to Nagios + Enterprises on their request. This transfer was coupled with an + [agreement][agreement] that we would continue to run the project + independently. +* Early in 2014, Nagios Enterprises copied most of our web site and changed + the DNS records to point to their web space instead, which then served a + slightly modified[^changed-site] version of our site, including the tarballs + we created. This was done without prior notice. Presumably, their + [reasoning][reasoning] for this move was that we [mentioned Icinga and + Shinken][mentioning] on our home page. + +So today, there are two projects: + +* One driven by the company that controls the domain. +* The other one driven by the team that lost its domain, but that did the + actual maintenance work in the past, and that continues to maintain the same + project with the same infrastructure (e.g., the GitHub + [repositories][repositories] and [trackers][trackers], the [mailing + lists][support], and the [automated test builds][tests]) under the new name. + +Thus, in our view, they clearly forked us, not vice versa. We just see two +differences to most other forks, which make this case less obvious: + +* The project that has been forked didn't own its domain name. +* The project that performed the fork did so without showing any previous + development activities. + +[^changed-site]: In the meantime, they changed the contents and design of + parts of their web site. [nagios-plugins]: http://www.nagios-plugins.org/ "Nagios Plugins" [monitoring-plugins]: index.html "Monitoring Plugins" -- cgit v0.10-9-g596f