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Awesome Windows Repository #671

Closed rahulkapoor90 closed 8 years ago

rahulkapoor90 commented 8 years ago

when i started awesome windows repository i didn't knew how to write down the list properly but still i managed to gather all the resources and made a nice awesome windows repository and i did send a pull request here to add it here but instead it was closed because of less stars by sindresorhus.

but soon after that a guy with username https://github.com/RiseLedger copied the whole thing i wrote and managed to get more 'stars' than me and you added him.

Is the one who wrote it originally is not entitled to be added here or is it just you can copy someone's else work and get more stars and go on sending pull request? Is this how the whole thing works?

My repository - https://github.com/rahulkapoor90/awesome-windows

RiseLedger - https://github.com/RiseLedger/awesome-windows

My pull request is here https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/pull/326.

davisonio commented 8 years ago

Is the one who wrote it originally is not entitled to be added here or is it just you can copy someone's else work and get more stars and go on sending pull request? Is this how the whole thing works?

Not at all. You should be the one who should be added to this list.

I see what the problem is from these commits:

@RiseLedger can you explain?

Else, I think the best thing to do moving forward is to add @rahulkapoor90's repository to this main list instead of @RiseLedger's considering the list that was created first with the original content.

egeerardyn commented 8 years ago

First of all, your #326 has NOT been closed due to "too little stars" as you mention. Instead, it's the typical reason https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/pull/326#issuecomment-141786349:

Wait at least a couple of weeks after creating a list before submitting to this list to give it a chance to mature.

By the way, the other list was not accepted at first for the same reason. However, @RiseLedger took the time afterwards to get his list included, while you did not. I suspect that is the reason your list is not included and his one is.

Next to the evidence of @davisonio that shows that @RiseLedger based his list on @rahulkapoor90's work, I found a verbatim piece of overlap (not just "similar"):

Compression

  • 7-Zip - Open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Formats 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR are supported fully, other formats can be unpacked.
  • PeaZip - Archiver and file compressor. Extract 7Z CAB ISO RAR TAR ZIP archive files.
  • WinRAR - A powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files.

This can be tracked back to

Note also that the latter commit contains more verbatim fragments from @RiseLedger's repository without any attribution and a snarky comment on top. I.e. evidence that @rahulkapoor90 also plagiarized @RiseLedger's work.

Personally, I think that @rahulkapoor90's list needs a lot of work still:

TL;DR: I think the best course of action is to decide among each other whether or not to collaborate (merge both lists, decide to maintain it together, ...). But I guess the best place for that is to open an issue either in your repository mentioning him or an issue in his repository.

Regardless of cross-plagiarism, I would advise against blindly changing the reference without further review of the quality of both lists and explanations of both involved.

RiseLedger commented 8 years ago

Hi @rahulkapoor90 . As you mention seems that your list was created earlier then my list. I was not aware that such list exist, that's why I created it in first place.

All the apps that I added in initial commits - is application that I use daily on the windows machine for years, and know that they are good, and for help of creating categories and decided which apps to include in the list, I was following ninite website.

I see however some overlaps at the beginning in Terminal and Editors categories.

Like @egeerardyn mention it will be better to create an issue in your or my repository, and decide which path we will take next.

rahulkapoor90 commented 8 years ago

@egeerardyn i accept that i also included some of the things that @RiseLedger added as i was angry at that time and didn't knew what to do and clearly made a rookie mistake but i also thought i would start contributing daily to my repository and people would somehow recognize that mine is the original one but it all went the other way around.

and i even added this line -

Some users have made their own repositories by copying content from this repository, i request all of you to please fork only this original repository and add/suggest/submit changes.

Plus as @RiseLedger and @egeerardyn mentioned, i have opened an issue in RiseLedger repository and i hope we will get this thing resolved soon.

egeerardyn commented 8 years ago

@rahulkapoor90: I understand why you were angry/disappointed that somebody else did something very similar to your work and gets the credit.

However, in such cases it is often most productive to assume no malicious intent and just contact the other author, see what has happened, offer to collaborate and share the workload (because maintaining a good list is quite some work, as you have probably noticed) and share the credit.

What throws me off and looks like copying is the identical wording at the top: A curated list of awesome applications, softwares, tools and shiny things for Windows in both repositories since the beginning.

While this could point towards @RiseLedger copying @rahulkapoor90 , I think the explanation is much simpler: both @rahulkapoor90 and @RiseLedger may have used the same repository as a starting point and inspiration: it also contains A curated list of awesome applications, softwares, tools and shiny things for OS X.

Technically, since that is a CC-BY repo, it should have been mentioned by both. So I honestly believe that this is also a case of just two people working on something very similar at the same time, without any intent of profiting of the other's work.

I am glad to see https://github.com/RiseLedger/awesome-windows/issues/29 where I think further discussion is most appropriate.

sindresorhus commented 8 years ago

Thanks for excellent handling of this @egeerardyn :)

egeerardyn commented 8 years ago

@sindresorhus You're welcome. I think both @RiseLedger and @rahulkapoor90 have made huge improvements to their joint list since a week ago. So I hope we can treat their new list as just a replacement of the old one when both are ready to fully release it.