tenderlove/nokogiri — comment on commit 7f17a643a05ca381d65131515b54d4a3a61ca2e1
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By drbrain:

The obvious benefit is that users of nokogiri are not filing bugs on unreleased versions they may not be ready for release. By using a forked version, a user is responsible for their own support and this does not provide a burden to the maintainers.