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Discussion on: What's the proper etiquette for forking an abandoned repo?

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

Treat abandoned as basically dead and gone forever. As Grant indicates, there's no point in even forking it, just create a new project starting from that one. Though I wouldn't worry about searching, since I've honeslty never searched for a repo on a place like github. I've always found them through a search engine.

Attribution requirements don't change for a fork or copy. Whatever the original license said must be maintained.

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Ben Halpern

As it so happened, I found this project by deep searching GitHub. I figured someone had to have attempted this already. But in general I know what you mean.

If anyone's curious, this is the repo in question: github.com/patience-tema-baron/rub...

Hints at a feature I want to implement 🙂