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Hello, can a moderator remove the comment #7 please? last time i checked this was a buglist and not a forum for troll.
I am Marlin's creator and actual maintainer, this project was created from the ground up 2 years ago. I think i kinda know my repository and i can't remember any significant commit made in the name of Elementary. So no, Elementary never actually developed Marlin. Nevertheless Elementary has been a very supportive community arround this project until i left them one year ago. Since then nothing has really changed on Marlin's side, the project is still being actively developed by the same people. It appears that things have changed recently on Elementary side and they decided to fork the project and adopt their HIG. Marlin never was destined to a particular OS/distribution, it's a filemanager built for gtk environnement, it has a good Unity integration and will have a good gnome integration (if possible).
The actual elementary developers at the origin of this fork were never actively involved in Marlin's development. Most of them never actually committed a single line of code for Marlin. It's a bit a shame than after all theses years when finally elementary wake up about some serious filemanager coding it's to generate a fork. But i guess we don't loose anything 0 - 0 = 0.
It's not the first time elementary fork a project, they have already forked Beatbox into Noise now Marlin into Pantheon-files, adding a new fork to an already long list while core developers move away. It's not the first time a project is forked either so there's no need to add some drama. This how life goes for open-sources projects. Anybody can judge what a fork bring on the table and everybody got differents needs. In some ways Marlin is a fork of Nautilus, Thunar and nautilus-elementary (and even got some Dolphin's inspirations) :)
All of thoses are magnificient projects and a great source of inspiration.
I'd be happy to talk about Marlin's development and internals but it wouldn't be appropriated to do it on the Nautilus buglist. You know where to find me if you want to know more or if you have questions.