DeRose: Designing pro creative apps (Part 1-3)

secondly, the fact that a program forks away from the FSF lead project would indicate to me that it should no longer be considered 'owned' by the FSF, even if later on the FSF abandons it's 'trunk' and accepts the fork as a replacement.

there's no need to fork a project to get more efficient development practices if you are the ones doing the leading/management of the project, that step is only needed if you need to get out from under the management of the project.