Congrats TJ Fontaine! Thanks, Isaac!
Best regards Tom On Thursday, January 16, 2014 1:02:22 AM UTC+8, 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.
