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| 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | # Did you fork the Nagios Plugins? | 5 | # Did you fork the Nagios Plugins? |
| 6 | 6 | ||
| 7 | TL;DR: No. They forked us. | 7 | Short answer: No. They forked us. |
| 8 | 8 | ||
| 9 | Long answer: | 9 | Long answer: |
| 10 | 10 | ||
| @@ -17,35 +17,38 @@ important anyway. | |||
| 17 | 17 | ||
| 18 | However, because you asked, here's our view on the happenings. | 18 | However, because you asked, here's our view on the happenings. |
| 19 | 19 | ||
| 20 | Originally, there was a Nagios Plugins project that was maintained by us; | 20 | * Originally, there was a Nagios Plugins project that was maintained by us; |
| 21 | i.e., a [team][team] of volunteers not affiliated with [Nagios | 21 | i.e., a [team][team] of volunteers not affiliated with [Nagios |
| 22 | Enterprises][enterprises]. In 2011, we transferred the `nagios-plugins.org` | 22 | Enterprises][enterprises]. |
| 23 | domain to Nagios Enterprises on their request. This transfer was coupled with | 23 | * In 2011, we transferred the `nagios-plugins.org` domain to Nagios |
| 24 | an [agreement][agreement] that we would continue to run the project | 24 | Enterprises on their request. This transfer was coupled with an |
| 25 | independently. Early in 2014, Nagios Enterprises copied most of our web site | 25 | [agreement][agreement] that we would continue to run the project |
| 26 | and changed the DNS records to point to their web space instead, which then | 26 | independently. |
| 27 | served a slightly modified version of our site including the tarballs we | 27 | * Early in 2014, Nagios Enterprises copied most of our web site and changed |
| 28 | created. This was done without prior notice. Presumably, their | 28 | the DNS records to point to their web space instead, which then served a |
| 29 | [reasoning][reasoning] for this move was that they weren't happy with us | 29 | slightly modified[^changed-site] version of our site, including the tarballs |
| 30 | [mentioning Icinga and Shinken][mentioning] on our home page. | 30 | we created. This was done without prior notice. Presumably, their |
| 31 | 31 | [reasoning][reasoning] for this move was that we [mentioned Icinga and | |
| 32 | So, today there are two projects: | 32 | Shinken][mentioning] on our home page. |
| 33 | 33 | ||
| 34 | One driven by the team that lost its domain, but that did the actual | 34 | So today, there are two projects: |
| 35 | maintenance work in the past, and that continues to maintain the same project | 35 | |
| 36 | with the same infrastructure (e.g., the GitHub [repositories][repositories] | 36 | * One driven by the company that controls the domain. |
| 37 | and [trackers][trackers], the [mailing lists][support], and the [automated | 37 | * The other one driven by the team that lost its domain, but that did the |
| 38 | test builds][tests]) under the new name. | 38 | actual maintenance work in the past, and that continues to maintain the same |
| 39 | 39 | project with the same infrastructure (e.g., the GitHub | |
| 40 | The other project is driven by the company that controls the domain. | 40 | [repositories][repositories] and [trackers][trackers], the [mailing |
| 41 | 41 | lists][support], and the [automated test builds][tests]) under the new name. | |
| 42 | So, if you ask us (as you did by definition when reading this): They clearly | 42 | |
| 43 | forked us, not vice versa. We just see two differences to a "typical" fork | 43 | Thus, in our view, they clearly forked us, not vice versa. We just see two |
| 44 | which makes this case less obvious: | 44 | differences to most other forks, which make this case less obvious: |
| 45 | 45 | ||
| 46 | 1. The project that has been forked didn't own its domain name. | 46 | * The project that has been forked didn't own its domain name. |
| 47 | 2. The project that performed the fork did so without showing any previous | 47 | * The project that performed the fork did so without showing any previous |
| 48 | development activities. | 48 | development activities. |
| 49 | |||
| 50 | [^changed-site]: In the meantime, they changed the contents and design of | ||
| 51 | parts of their web site. | ||
| 49 | 52 | ||
| 50 | [nagios-plugins]: http://www.nagios-plugins.org/ "Nagios Plugins" | 53 | [nagios-plugins]: http://www.nagios-plugins.org/ "Nagios Plugins" |
| 51 | [monitoring-plugins]: index.html "Monitoring Plugins" | 54 | [monitoring-plugins]: index.html "Monitoring Plugins" |
