TJ works at Joyent, he has for some time, and was hired specifically to work on node core stuff.
On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:12AM, Felix Geisendoerfer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "npm-" 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. -- -- 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.
