Clarify our position on forks

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/27/2012 02:14 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 08:07 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Kevin Fenzi wrote on 27.02.2012 04:21:
>>>
>>> #topic #810 Clarify our position on forks .fesco 810
>>
>> It's just a statement that is asked for in the ticket, but nevertheless:
>> Shouldn't issues like this be discussed on this list first, so FESCo
>> members can get a impression from the flamewar ^w discussion what the
>> developer community thinks about the issue raised?
>>
>
> Personally, my stance on this is that, provided that the forks are
> properly renamed such that they will not conflict with other forks of
> the same codebase, there's no reason to disallow them.
ACK. The fact "forks are forks" or even more general the "origin of a 
package" should be irrelevant. They should be treated like any other 
arbitrary package.

Ralf