On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Mikeal Rogers <[email protected]>wrote:
> Next thing: core doesn't matter. I love core, they do awesome stuff, but > core as an influencer of the community overall matters roughly 4x less than > it did a year ago. Next year it'll matter less. Being that it matters less > why are wasting energy trying to migrate its ownership? The ecosystem is > where all the value is, it is not owned by Joyent, it is owned by the > contributors. > While mostly true, there's a tie-in. People who write node modules often need the help of core contributors like Ben who have the knowledge of not just the Node internals, but of the nuances of the kernel and APIs like openssl to be able to assist us. And assist he did, almost every single day. We don't see much from other node contributors. Most of Isaacs posts in the last 2 years have been organisational issues. What Ben did, THAT is community, and it's important, and those of us who relied on Ben's help over the years are worried there won't be someone to step up and fill those shoes. Some re-assurance from core developers about that issue would be very useful right now. > Next thing: if the actual people who committed regularly to core (there's > only about 6 of them) felt that Joyent's involvement was a hinderance > they'd fork, guaranteed. It's not actually that hard to just fork the > project. In fact, it would be easier for the maintainers to fork than to > migrate the ownership and trademark to a non-profit. The maintainers are > not calling for that, so how about everyone else just stop. > Agreed. Without the node core maintainers being behind a foundation it will never happen. Might as well stop discussing that particular aspect. Matt. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
