Why Is Node Being Forked?
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Why Is Node Being Forked?
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#2How can a guy be "former Benevolent Dictator For Life"? Is he dead?
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#3The link in the post to the fork is dead, which leads me to believe maybe they reversed their decision to fork it.
The nodeforward site discusses improving documentation, build and test tools: http://nodeforward.org/
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#4How can a guy be "former Benevolent Dictator For Life"? Is he dead?
It's just an expression, he stepped down: http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/15/the-next-phase-of-node-js/
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#5How can a guy be "former Benevolent Dictator For Life"? Is he dead?
isaacs passed on the reins to tjfontaine to focus on NPM instead: http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/15/the-next-phase-of-node-js/
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.)
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#6The link in the post to the fork is dead, which leads me to believe maybe they reversed their decision to fork it. The nodeforward site discusses improving documentation, build and test tools: http://nodeforward.org/
node-forward stated in their issues [1] that it's just politics. They've taken it private for the time being.
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#7How can a guy be "former Benevolent Dictator For Life"? Is he dead?
It's just an expression, he stepped down: http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/15/the-next-phase-of-node-js/
If it's just an expression than maybe "forking" is also just an expression with a random meaning? Either that or he never was a BDFL.
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#8Mikeal's response:
" @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.
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#9Node is going to be killed by politics and infighting, learn from what happened to craft bukkit.
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#10How can a guy be "former Benevolent Dictator For Life"? Is he dead?
In 5 years, Node has had 3 BDFLs. Are there any other mainstream platforms with that kind of turnaround? I can't think of any.