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I'm looking forward to seeing this succeed.

A question: given that common pattern of forks of this codebase over time which seem to have a common theme of confused/transferred/disputed ownership, are there plans for an actual neutral foundation (or joining an existing one) or some governance which will guarantee that this avoids those problems?

From the outside it's getting embarrassing constantly telling my friends and family "actually you need to install this new fork instead" for the fourth time. I've seen norming in the wild with maps.me or MapsWithMe installed on their phones in the past, and I can't believe that they're following along the journey and we really can't go though this again.



Creating an org or joining a fiscal host are two things the community is currently exploring to avoid exactly those issues, you can find the Governance discussions and decisions on their Codeberg repo here: https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/


Perfect. It looks like it's moving in a very good direction.




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