Forking a project into the same namespace bug

I am using the python-gitlab client api. When I go to fork a project (into the same namespace), it works the first time. However, the second time, when I try to fork it (with the same path but different name) I see a 409 error. I believe this to be a bug as I should be able to fork any number of times into the same namespace as long as the name is different.

Also I believe there was a previous bug (I'll have to locate it) which attempted to fix some issues relating to forking into the same namespace. The functionality was previously working and now it is no longer working. I also saw that namespace is now deprecated in favor of namespace_id and namespace_path It would be nice to have a better description of the variables.

>> project.forks.create({'path': 'my-namespace', 'name': 'my-project-name1'})
<ProjectFork id:123456>
>> project.forks.create({'path': 'my-namespace', 'name': 'my-project-name2'})
gitlab.exceptions.GitlabCreateError: 409: {'path': ['has already been taken'], 'name': []}