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I have no idea. I did not know that a fork was created for future development of SPLAT-VO and I don't believe there was any discussion on this mailing list about it. This does seem like a bad approach. On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Ole Streicher <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just discovered that there are currently two Starjava repositories: > > * https://github.com/Starlink/starjava > > * https://github.com/SPLAT-VO/starjava > > > The first seems to be used for Topcat (and common use), while the second > is for Splat-VO? > > They have some common history (older log entries are identical), but at > some point (Dec 9 2016?) they start to diverge. And they are not github > forks, which makes it difficult to compare and sync. > > What is the rationale behind this? Having different versions of > starjava, one for topcat & friends, and another for splat-vo, would make > it a nightmare to package everything for distributions like Debian (or > MacPorts), and makes it also complicated to bring bug fixes and > enhancements from one the splat world to the topcat world and vice versa. > > Wouldn't it be better to do this in a common repository? Is there a > discussion somewhere where I could get more details? > > Best regards > > Ole >