[earnesti]

I don't get it, if you don't like it, don't use it, but why feel sad about it? Someone is developing something new and giving it out for free.

[antoniojtorres]

They aren’t sad about being forced to use something. They are expressing their opinion about split efforts in the Django community.

[danpalmer]

Exactly. I look at things like this and contrast with what friends like Adam Johnson do[0] with their community contributions. Adam has many Django packages, along with many other non-Django Python packages. Crucially though, they're not forks that reduce the focus of the community, they're contributions that increase what the community can do collectively.

[0]: https://github.com/adamchainz?tab=repositories&q=django-&typ...

[jiknstring]

I think it's perfectly fine to have split effort when you have differing views and goals on something. Developing two exact same things with same goal and purpose might not be fruitful, but variety and options don't usually hurt