2019-02-13 Github is a strange thing. For unexperienced people this is a dangerous field. I was searching for some script that converts the Mantis bug database to import it into Gitlab. There's a pro- ject on Github that does it ... or at least tells so. [0] First, of course, I needed to get this nodejs stuff running ... a hazzle in itself, but somehow I got it working. Next, it became apparent that the code did not really work as it should. This seems to be a common scheme on Github. Well, I was happy to have a basis that worked almost as it should and only had to fix the broken parts (and the bad code). If you're a no- vice you better stay away from Github. It was great to see that there are some forks of the project, [1] which probably would provide the fixes, as some of the problems were just obvious. But the next strange thing is that three of the four forks were just verbatim and partly old copies of the original project. What worth are they? Why would someone fork if he doesn't add something new? One fork at least included some fixes. [2] I had already done some changes myself until I found out about it, thus I used it only as a source of inspiration and comparison for some of the changes and fixes. Then I could use the script and convert/import the data success- fully. In the community sense I wanted to share my improvements and give them back to the projects I based them upon ... but, in disbelieve, I had to discover that there was no contact informa- tion to be found! Without a Github account (which I refuse to create) there was no way for me to give back the improvements I've made. What a sad story! This could have been a huge success story of collaboration, but this Github world unfortunately is a bastardization of the original Free Software idea. I hope I can make my code accessible somewhere. Edit 2022-01-02: Here's the code: [3] [0] https://github.com/nonplus/mantis2gitlab [1] https://github.com/nonplus/mantis2gitlab/network/members [2] https://github.com/timwiel/mantis2gitlab/commits/master [3] http://git.marmaro.de/mantis2gitlab http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke