>  unfortunately this is a myth that a fork will succeed,
In a situation like this, plenty of people from
the old project want to leave also.

>  honestly though... i don't feel that there's anything to be concerned
> about. the people maintaining trinity are pretty sensible.

That's missleading. This type of decay happen slowly over time.
It always start well with the founders, but as people come and go
things deteriorate.... The guys that founded freebsd back in the 1993
didn't expect something like this.