Why Is Node Being Forked?(dtrejo.com) |
Why Is Node Being Forked?(dtrejo.com) |
" @ddtrejo @izs @piscisaureus it’s a fork as in the GitHub fork button sense." https://mobile.twitter.com/mikeal/status/520285400279965698
This article acts as if they are going their own separate ways when this is clearly not the case.
Why did someone make a fork? Maybe to submit a patch? Maybe to have their own copy in case the origin decides to delete?
Please be accurate in your posts. Misreporting or misrepresenting puts you and your subject's professional reputations at risk.
- https://github.com/node-forward is an organisation, not an individual and has put up various repositories centering around the forking effort.
- They have set up a website, http://nodeforward.org/ - which indicates (albeit with scant detail/background) that this is an independent effort to improve node.
- as zzmp pointed out, there is a fair bit of discussion around indicating some political discontent: https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/7
The nodeforward site discusses improving documentation, build and test tools: http://nodeforward.org/
It's kinda exciting for devs to use something that's actually still being built, but now we'll face different versions of the same tool. And, taking in consideration the oficial NodeJS will still be the one owned by the current BDFL, I fear this split of ideas actually inject problems for developers getting introduced to node.
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-October/0...
One thing I don't understand is why isaacs didn't pass on the reins to a committee in the first place if that's what he wanted? Politics in the background? (I don't keep up with the Node community.)