Forking an open source project

This article details a developer's experience with the managed-midi open source library, which broke on updated Windows 11 systems due to changes in Windows MIDI Services. The author has created a fork of the repository and is considering publishing it to NuGet, with the original author's support. The post explores the motivation behind the fork, the technical challenges involved, and the developer's plans for maintaining the project while balancing job commitments. It covers open source collaboration, NuGet packaging strategies, and cross-platform MIDI development, making it relevant to software engineering and tech community practices.