Post-Adobe future : maintaining a new fork?

[yhancik]

Forking the discussion in issue #15329 into one focused on the following question : is there anyone within the Brackets community who's willing to start a sustainable fork, and has the time, energy & skills to maintain it?

When I say "anyone", it's clearly not going to be a single person.

As users, are we willing to financially support that development (as much as we all can afford, of course), after years of using this Adobe-backed project for free?

(I'm just starting the discussion, not offering to start that fork)

[killerog]

I wouldn't mind paying for Brackets, definitely if I could get some support why brackets has trouble starting up sometimes when windows 10 first starts ;-)

Same as everyone else though, no idea how brackets is build currently.

[moeenio]

One man can't continue the effort of 100s of contributors, backed by a large company.

[rafalkrupinski]

One man can't continue the effort of 100s of contributors, backed by a large company.

Obviously, it needs a group of maintainers, but someone has to start

[Maniues]

I think it would be a good idea to submit brackets to various larger OSS communities like the Apache Software Foundation instead of trying to keep the project alive on your own.
However, if it doesn't then at least you need to make a copy of the repository and not a fork that doesn't handle issues and other features.

[Maniues]

@fakerybakery
Apache Incubator from what I can see is a project where the whole community of a given program wants to enter Apache. In this case, it would have to look more like handing over OpenOffice to ASF. I will write to them if there is any option to accept such a project.

[Maniues]

I sent an e-mail to Apache Software Foundation (apache@apache.org). As soon as I get a reply I will write here about it. Maybe I will publish full e-mail. ASF is currently the only possible idea that will keep Brackets alive at the moment. In fact, ASF is the only (or one of the few) chances of keeping Brackets alive.
Edit:
Creating a fork outside any foundation is possible, but someone would have to realistically take care of it, gather many people who co-created Brackets, look for people who did Pull Request, create one organization, and as we can see - no one is ready for such a step, especially, that Brackets is based on CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework), not Electron.js which means that for many people it is more difficult to understand Brackets and deal with it alone or with a smaller group. Therefore, Brackets needs a foundation to organize these people, find them, encourage them to participate, adapt a new server for add-ons, and relocate some of them. You can do it yourself, but for the new Brackets to work in the same way as Adobe Brackets, it would take months, maybe a year.

[willnode]

So sad this unique editor will be abandoned. The live preview is very useful to me.

I created a fork and I've modified it a little so that it passes TravisCI build. Maybe I will tweak it a little over my free time to suit my needs. But I agree with @Maniues some orgs should have take over this project in order to get overall good support.

[moeenio]

As soon as I get a reply I will write here about it

So that means no reply yet?

[Maniues]

As soon as I get a reply I will write here about it

So that means no reply yet?

@locness3 I haven't received an answer yet. Today I will write whether the case is pending. If I don't get a reply within a week, I will write here about an alternative idea

[PaulAtST]

That would be great if Apache could take over brackets. It would be a shame to see such a great tool go away.

[moeenio]

@Maniues did you read the stuff over at https://incubator.apache.org/ ?

[Maniues]

The Apache Incubator provides services to projects which want to enter the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).

This excludes the participation of Apache Brackets. We don't want to join the project but get a fork from Apache

[Maniues]

I didn't get any reply from ASF. I can write to Mozilla Foundation or to The Document Foundation. What you think about that?

[flopezre]

Apache Brackets?