Transmission BitTorrent Client Forked as ReTransmission After Maintainer Disagreement
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Transmission Will Possibly Be Forked into ReTransmission
Transmission, the BitTorrent client that’s default in Ubuntu (when installed in “Extended selection” mode since 24.04), will be possibly forked into “ReTransmission”. Someone asked “Why has the project been forked as ‘retransmission’?” in the project discussions page, and the maintainer answered: There are several reasons, but the easiest one to explain quickly is it solves a longstanding disagreement between the Transmission maintainers on whet…
The Transmission tool is a well-known and native BitTorrent open source client on many systems. Recently, a fork was announced: Retransmission. One of the reasons for this fork is the tension between the "historic" maintainers and the possibility of adding new ones. Obviously, it was not simple. This announcement asks several questions. On the discussion Why has the project been forked as retransmission (on the Transmission GitHub), valcomm is s…
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