Thanks for the update Isaac, and best of look with your new venture. I've been a bit out of the loop, as I'm not doing much node dev at this point (I do have a nice patch in the works so). Basically I'd like to know who TJ Fontaine works for and if anybody is sponsoring his node work.
I'm merely asking out of curiosity. Cheers, Felix On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:02:22 PM UTC+1, Isaac Schlueter wrote: > > Node's growth has continued and accelerated immensely over the last few > years. More people are developing and sharing more code with Node and npm > than I would have ever imagined. Countless companies are using Node, and > npm along with it. > > Over the last year, TJ Fontaine has become absolutely essential to the > Node.js project. He's been building releases, managing the test bots, > fixing nasty bugs, and making decisions for the project with constant focus > on the needs of our users. He was responsible for an update to MDB to > support running ::findjsobjects on Linux core dumps, and is working on a > shim layer that will provide a stable C interface for Node binary addons. > In partnership with Joyent and The Node Firm, he's helped to create a path > forward for scalable issue triaging. He's become the primary point of > contact keeping us all driving the project forward together. > > Anyone who's been close to the core project knows that he's been > effectively leading the project for a while now, so we're making it > official. Effective immediately, TJ Fontaine is the Node.js project lead. > I will remain a Node core committer, and expect to continue to contribute > to the project in that role. My primary focus, however, will be npm. > > At this point, npm needs work, and I am eager to deliver what the Node > community needs from its package manager. I am starting a company, npm, > Inc., to deliver new products and services related to npm. I'll be sharing > many more details soon about exactly how this is going to work, and what > we'll be offering. For now, suffice it to say that everything currently > free will remain free, and everything currently flaky will get less flaky. > Pursuing new revenue is how we can keep providing the npm registry service > in a long-term sustainable way, and it has to be done very carefully so > that we don't damage what we've all built together. > > npm is what I'm most passionate about, and I am now in a position to give > it my full attention. I've done more than I could have hoped to accomplish > in running Node core, and it's well past time to hand the control of the > project off to its next gatekeeper. > > TJ is exactly the leader who can help us take Node.js to 1.0 and beyond. > He brings professionalism, rigor, and a continued focus on inclusive > community values and culture. In the coming days, TJ will spell out his > plans in greater detail. I look forward to the places that Node will go > with his guidance. > > Please join me in welcoming him to this new role :) > -- -- 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.
