From bb35aca03272ce2920affcf510d4a88038eb76cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Alexis=20M=C3=A9taireau?= Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:01:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Added a section explaining why a fork was created. --- README.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a0bdb191..744b7884 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -20,6 +20,19 @@ __What features does it have?__ - Responsive layout — works well on your smartphone - _.. and more!_ +__Why the fork?__ + +We felt that the original [Shout](https://github.com/erming/shout) project +"stagnated" a little because its original author wanted it to remain his pet +project (which is a perfectly fine thing!). + +A bunch of people, excited about doing things a bit differently than the upstream +project forked it under a new name: “The Lounge”. + +This fork aims to be community managed, meaning that the decisions are taken +in a collegial fashion, and that a bunch of maintainers should be able to make +the review process quicker and more streamlined. + ## Install ```