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When the zdharma org was deleted, I jumped over to zdharma-continuum/zinit along with many other zinit users and haven't thought about again since. However, a friend of mine recently migrated from the original repo and was directed here by the README in zdharma/zinit which links directly to zi. This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole and I have a few questions.
To be clear, I'm not making any accusations or attributing any blame. However, I would appreciate some clarity around these points and perhaps some better communication with the community regarding some of the decisions made. |
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I am not going to make comments about other projects - all the best to all :) This indirectly answers the questions:
Could you provide more details on "a bit of a rabbit hole"? zdharma-continuum, seems to be a popular project - why switch?
History can be recovered at any point in time and any file also be appended or prepended. I could not find any of your commits. If I missed it and it matters to you, just let me know. As far as I am concerned time is what matters most. I have every single commit of all zdharma and psprint history + including all deleted, and not only on GitHub.
After zdharma's disappearance and part of recovery (as stated previously) also due to many visitors from the east using cached links the first step taken was to investigate the most vulnerable spots and create strategies to secure them. I shared it with colleagues and we secured and arranged automation to cover future changes and surprises. Any domain name or service with 'zdharma' 'zinit' around the globe is owned by my team. Also, much information was recovered about the previous owner and the project, which is private and can not be shared. Anyone is welcome to the project - open-source is where people create and share mostly because of their passion. https://github.com/z-shell/.github/tree/main/governance Welcome for any additional questions. 🙃 P.S: Anything missing/changed can be recovered if there is a legit reason for it. Communication can help to solve it :+: Sincerely, |
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🇺🇸 Make ZI Great Again! 🇺🇸 |
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Also, this user just copying code from ZI repos: https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit/pull/173/files Other commits similar or just CI/Docs/Etc. Also compared overall internal functions and compatibility with repos (annex, packages, etc.) 1 improvement made - jq for packages. (good improvement), but compatibility with repos low, some functions/APIs do not match (simply not working). ZI has similar issues almost fixed - 90% of repos under z-shell are up to date and working. Many improvements come after fixes are done. Not much to compare. |
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For future lurkers trying to make the same decision:
New users just discovering zi/zinit should use zi. The points pd93 makes here are valid; if unsure, I also default to repos with more stars, as they're generally better maintained. However, that is not the case here. Looking at the overall contributions can be misleading, as zdharma-continuum includes commits from the original project and z-shell/zi does not. If you filter by when z-shell/zi started, you can see much more work is put into z-shell/zi than continuum: In my personal experience, when I posted an issue on z-shell/zi, @ss-o responded immediately, and worked his ass off to push out commit after commit to fix the issue. I was floored by his work ethic & dedication to this project, he dropped everything and worked something like 6 hours straight until my issue was resolved. This situation is a case study in why stars aren't everything in judging github projects. Based on the value provided, z-shell/zi deserves much more recognition than it's currently getting. |
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I am not going to make comments about other projects - all the best to all :)
This indirectly answers the questions:
Could you provide more details on "a bit of a rabbit hole"? zdharma-continuum, seems to …