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Fork and pull model refers to a software development model mostly used on GitHub, where multiple developers working on an open, shared project make their own contributions by sharing a main repository and pushing changes after granted pull request by integrator users.
Sites such as GitHub, Bitbucket and Launchpad provide free DVCS hosting expressly supporting independent branches, such that the technical, social and financial barriers to forking a source code repository are massively reduced, and GitHub uses "fork" as its term for this method of contribution to a project.
In 2012, the Gentoo Linux project created a fork of udev in order to avoid dependency on the systemd architecture. The resulting fork is called eudev and it makes udev functionality available without systemd. [122] A stated goal of the project is to keep eudev independent of any Linux distribution or init system. [123]
Most Linux distributions are descended from other distributions, most being traceable back to Debian, Red Hat or Softlanding Linux System (see image right). Since most of the content of a distribution is free and open source software, ideas and software interchange freely as is useful to the individual distribution.
μClinux is a variation of the Linux kernel, previously maintained as a fork, that targets microcontrollers without a memory management unit (MMU). [1] It was integrated into the mainline kernel as of 2.5.46; [ 2 ] the project continues to develop patches and tools for microcontrollers.
LibreWolf was initially released for Linux operating systems on March 7, 2020. [5] The goal of the LibreWolf project was to create a more privacy-focused version of Firefox. [ 6 ] A community-maintained version for Windows was released a year later, with a macOS port released soon after.
The Google Summer of Code, often abbreviated to GSoC, is an international annual program in which Google awards stipends to contributors who successfully complete a free and open-source software coding project during the summer. GSoC is a large scale project with 202 participating organizations in 2021. [46]
In 2017, GitHub released a formal specification of its GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) that is based on CommonMark. [32] It is a strict superset of CommonMark, following its specification exactly except for tables, strikethrough , autolinks and task lists, which GFM adds as extensions.