It will be interesting to see how id (or Carmack himself) will react to eventual...

aw3c2 · on Feb 1, 2012

Before ttimo left he merged some pull requests to the Doom3 source https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl/commits/master

VMG · on Feb 1, 2012

The quake3 source was forked for further development: http://ioquake3.org/

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aiscott · on Feb 1, 2012

A git pull request is a request for the owner to merge a change or fix you have done back into the original.

It's called a pull request because you are asking that they pull the change from your fork.

cleverjake · on Feb 1, 2012

time is spent evaluating pull requests. time they will almost certainly not want to invest, as they are no longer using it themselves.

jeffool · on Feb 1, 2012

I imagine communities will manage a few forks until there's mainly one or two main builds people use.

jaredsohn · on Feb 1, 2012

Already exists (at least for many products). This happens when the source is released, not when id posts the pre-community source to github.

jeffool · on Feb 2, 2012

I just meant I imagine it will happen on GitHub as well. That's all.

nknight · on Feb 1, 2012

I really doubt they'll react at all. id releases source code when they're done with it. There's little reason for them to invest much time in a commercially dead codebase, they've always got new stuff to work on.