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by chis 3149 days ago
Why not just fork the repo? I’d be annoyed if software I depended on was taken over by new management and messed with with.
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I'd say this works 9/10 times - or more, but sometimes it would be nice (or important) - to really hand the exact namespace off to a different person/org.

This was a solved problem with domain names - but with the de-facto standard of github and projects being "in the namespace of a user" (if they don't create a separate org for this purpose they could then hand off without losing their username) it's a problem again.

And Go is notoriously bad for this. Had this problem a while ago where one library author just changed his name from uppercase first letter to all lowercase. On a case sensitive filesystem this actually breaks imports :(