Etiquette for releasing a forked plugin

Hi there,

I forked the Projectify plugin and started adding some features. It is my understanding that the original author, Nicolas Petton, doesn’t intend to develop his plugin anymore (the original repo has been archived on github).

Is there some recommended way to make my modifications available? Can I just release my changes under the same name, just changing the version number, as if it was just the same software continuing?

Suggestions welcome :slight_smile:

This is another fork of projectify - GitHub - ThaddeusJiang/Projectify: Project management in TiddlyWiki

May be you can follow the same path. Details someone with more knowledge may tell you.

If you intend go on with development and you did add considerable new functionality or you made incompatible changes, you should probably rename the whole plugin and go with you own project.

The original project is MIT licensed so there is no compatibility problem if you want to create your own project.

You can attribute the original project and the original author. But the MIT license does not force you to do that.


UUUps I almost forgot about one thing. You could also try to contact the author of the other fork and you could try to collaborate with 1 new project.

IMO it would be more efficient to have 1 fork with 2 contributors than 2 forks with 1 contributor each

@ThaddeusJiang is the author of the other fork. I have seen him to be active on twitter about tiddlywiki. From what I can see from the github, there is not much difference between his version of projectify and nicolas petton’s version of projectify. So I am not sure whether he is actively using projectify or not

I did a fork as well as I have many improvments to add, but its on hold for now.

I would prefer a collaboration.

Some examples;

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I have checked this version of yours. It looks promising. I have created a test wiki for this and will give feedback.

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There are soo much additions to the original version as seen from the screenshot. Would it not be better to reduce the number of buttons to avoid cluttering of the UI ? Is there any demo available for testing out ?

It would be nice if @TW_Tones AND @erwan can collaborate, provided vision of both of you people for projectify matches eachothers.

@TW_Tones I would be happy to collaborate of course, From your screenshot it looks like you did a lot of work on Projectify. Just so you know, I’m only an amateur myself!

@pmario Thank you for the advice, it makes sense.

I was more inclined to keep the name Projectify because I don’t plan to add a lot of new stuff, so it feels more reasonable to me to acknowledge that I’m not the main author of the project.