Just because you copy the codebase, doesn’t mean you copy the culture and informal policies of the previous project which is likely what @phnx is saying is unknown at this point. This is more important than most who haven’t been an active part of an open project understand and needs to be revealed as time goes on.
Even if you retain a fair percentage of contributors from the original project, that fork was created because visions around technical directions and/or governance wasn’t aligned. So despite the fork having a clone of what the original community built up to that point, you still need to see how the new modus operandi evolves as real work begins to happen. This is less about trusting the code or intentions of those building comaps who are likely trying to do a good thing. The receipts of what actually happens will come as we monitor happenings in the community and what changes get prioritized, who does the actual work, etc…
I speak from someone who was a community builder for a distributed query engine project built in Facebook that forked with the folks who made the original engine but Facebook had ubilateral power over the trademark and paid the salaries of the creators at the time. When they went off to build it and quit Facebook the Fork immediately got a lot of good traction. It ultimately has become the proper open source fork, but it has had hiccups along the way that could have easily rendered it unsuccessful.
We dont know what the outcome of comaps will be, it looks promising so go ahead and try it of you stumble across this, but it shouldn’t be rexommended in my book officially until it has proper vetting and we see how the incentive structures play out between both projects.
PG folk just want to avoid thrashing the community to change their app every 5 months as most normal humans (not me) don’t like doing that and gaining the trust of less technical folk to make their terrible privacy a little better will do more for all of us rather than placing bets on the latest fork that is keeping the incumbent OSS projects on their toes.
So as much as I and many others have had great experience with comaps I am happy to share its a great app go try it but gove PG time to watch the community develop. At some point it likely will become a valuable replacement.