On 2019-12-17, R.Wieser  wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> You might not have noticed (yeah, right :-) ), but I've been busy making
> changes to the RPi.GPIO package, and am now ready to repackage it.  As such
> am looking at its documentation and have a few questions about what I'm
> supposed to be doing there.
>
> Mind you: I'm not aiming to spread the package (just backing it up as a
> reference), but would want to have it in order for when it happens anyway.
>
> 1) I have /no/ intention to remove the origional writers name (Ben Croston),
> but at the same time I do not want him to be emailed and blamed if-and-when
> something goes wrong due to changes/additions I made.   What is the standard
> way to handle this ?
>
> 2) I currently upped the version number (from 2.7.0 to 2.7.1) to indicate a
> difference with bens version, but anyone else making changes to the 2.7.0
> version (even ben himself) would cause an clash.   What am I supposed to do
> here ?
>
> 3) anything I might have missed in this regard.
>
> Or maybe better: Does anyone know where to find documentation which adresses
> these issues ?

Are the changes you have made generic and a usefull extension of the
software? Then why not offer the changes back to the original author as a
contribution to improve the package?

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