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[nonethefewer]

What's most annoying is, I know I am not the best at creating websites from scratch.  I'm much better taking something that exists and morphing it into something that I want.  That's usually how I even learn about new ways to do things.

But everything I'm finding in SourceForge is either ridiculously over-featured or way too simple in a direction I'm not going (so they only have basic features that I don't care about), and a whole lot of them haven't been touched in like 5 years, and are broken.

You'd think I'd find this wonderful, given what I said, yknow, one paragraph ago.  But I don't know the etiquette of taking something that someone abandoned years ago and making it mine, and perhaps shareable to others, and it irritates me that no one has thought to make something like this, that works, recently.

"Mine" in the same sense that the ljuntagged script is "mine" -- I'm the contact and maintainer of the script, but the source of it was someone else, and I make note of that when it comes up.

Comments

[ethernight.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what you are looking for exactly, but you might try github. It's a source control repository, but the projects are highly collaborative and forking is common. Check out the community guide (http://book.git-scm.com/) if you're curious, or just use the search box from the main page (http://github.com/).

[glib-dichotomy.livejournal.com]

+1

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

main point of etiquette is, if you're forking a project, credit the original and change the name. at that point, it's yours, with the author's preactive blessing.