There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository

altairprime

The only thing missing is to mark it as Archived so that all of the GitHub features are turned off.

cookiengineer

Instead of providing a mirrored repository, they decided to intentionally not fixing the correctly identified problem while simultaneously still living 30 years in the past. Setting up a git mirror that auto syncs takes less than 2mins of effort. And way less time than writing up this README that's just there to lecture people. If it's about disagreement with github, there's also better alternatives. You can still setup the mirror and be done with it, and put the original repo links at the top in the README.

createful

So what's the point of making a GitHub if you're not going to publish source code? Is this an inside joke?

amiga386

Jeff Merkey is the person claiming the "xscreensaver" organisation on GitHub, despite it not being, and never has been, his project. He has promised to drop that and move the repo to /hisname/xscreensaver, but only if JWZ flatters his ego first. Sounds like he knows he's squatting on someone else's good name, but thinks he's so clever and well versed in trademark law that he'd be deliberately antagonistic all the way to the end of a huge legal bill. Just to force him to do the right thing. He knows what the right thing is and could do it at any time, but just look at his priors and tell me he'll do that: https://www.dmlp.org/threats/merkey-v-does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitra...

bcvvvy

GitHub is not authoritative and never should be considered as authoritative. Anyone can publish your stuff on there as your name. It’s a huge problem. Glad to see he’s at least put a placeholder on there.

ytxm

Opening with the word "I" and continuing in that manner is the real reason there's no official xscreensaver repository

throwfaraway135

pros of having a Github repo: * people can find your project easily * stars are a pretty good indicator of authenticity * you can browse, search code right away * a place for people to contact you cons: * some maintenance * people have a place to contact you

metropolis_pt2

This fork is great: https://github.com/cowmix/xscreensaver

TomMasz

This is totally on brand for JWZ.

johnea

Once again, jwz shows that he's way ahead of the average corporate ass kiss... Github has gone to shit ever since it's purchase by M$

jeffmerkey

xscreensaver is a generic term and Jamie gave me his express permission to create this repo, then whined about it when people who were tired of dealing with Jamie and his unreasoning hatred of MIcrosoft and Github started using the fork. The project is open sourced under a permissive license, and I have just as much right to distrbute the project as anyone else. What's really going on here is that Jamie wents to block visibility into how many peoples code he has pilfered from who knows where since he realeases the entire package as "his" and doesn't want people to know just how much code, bug fixes, and QA fixes are contributed by others. This is why he doesn't want xscreensaver on github. If anyone's development process cannot be trusted, it's his, since there is ZERO visibility into peoples contributions to his project. This contrasts to a public github repo that is wide open and doesn't have timebombs and aother malicious code which is presently in xscreensaver.