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Developer's Corner / Re: Markdown (and what do you do when a community outgrows your contribution)
« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2014, 03:46 PM »They've been trying for the whole two years that they worked on it.
I didn't quite get that impression. I noted that there is a mention of talking with him when they started (2 years ago) -- not clear how serious that attempt to talk was -- and then 2 weeks before release.. But I couldn't tell if they had talked to him any time in between.
Essentially I think we are on the same page -- that when something like this is released as open source, the natural interpretation is that it's going to be a project that the community can improve and evolve forward -- either led by the original creator, or by others entrusted by the community.
And I've already made clear that I believe standardization -- especially in the form it was done here -- is a good and important thing.
So the only real question in my mind is what you do when the original inventor becomes an obstacle to the continuing use and development of the project.
And I think my position is that when this happens, and attempts to convince the original inventor to join the team fails, that perhaps the best solution is to make a clean break from the original name of the invention and come up with a clearly different name -- even though that could lead to some (initial or continuing) confusion for users.
