> On Jul 1, 2020, at 11:14 AM, Kirk Lund <kl...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> I'm not a big fan of forking the Docker plugin and making it a new Geode
> submodule. This approach kind of flies in the face of the intentions of OSS
> in general. For example, we want folks contributing to Apache Geode rather
> than forking Geode to create their own new project while never giving back
> to this project.
>
> If the original Docker plugin project refuses to maintain or take on new
> contributors then some of us should help lead the creation of a new Docker
> plugin repo in Github that is independent of Apache Geode. This way it
> becomes a new living Docker plugin project that many contributors can
> become involved in. It also becomes valuable to more projects than just
> one. I've seen this happen with a number of OSS projects in which the
> original maintainer of a project disappears or leaves and I think this is
> generally accepted as the best approach for reviving a dead project that no
> new committers can be added to.
I agree, if we want to keep using the plugin it does make sense to open source
the fork outside of Geode.
-Jake
