On Dec 6, 2014, at 12:04 AM, // ravi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It’s the “apparently”s that bother me. I feel like one among the proverbial
> blind men trying to figure out an elephant. The blog post you linked to
> suggests comments be posted to this list, but the blog post (or its contents)
> itself was not posted to this list! A few weeks ago I heard of node-forward.
> Today I hear about io.js (the members of this organisation on GitHub are
> apparently — there’s that word again — private).
>
> As a user of NodeJS, I have absolutely no basis on which to make any
> productive comments. I am mildly, vaguely and belatedly aware of efforts that
> seem to spring up out of nowhere. I am even lesser aware of the motivation
> and need for these efforts. To mix my metaphors, is it worth bikeshedding
> after the bike has left the shed?
>
I should add that once I did hear of node-forward and signed on to Gitter,
Forrest was generous in explaining the effort to me, and my thanks are owed to
him for that.
> P.S: Isaac’s was a voice of reason that I could rely on, but he seems to have
> gone silent, somewhat understandably, since he forked off into the NPM effort.
And while I am on the taking foot out of my mouth track: the above is not to
suggest that current maintainers, moderators and contributors are in any way
not appreciated for their efforts.
—ravi
>
>
>> Given all this, the questions I ask myself are:
>>
>> why joyent not decides to put nodejs in a foundation with open governance?
>>
>> why not make everyone happy?
>>
>> why not move nodejs with one solid effort from the community?
>>
>> IMHO split the community in two is the worst that could happen to nodejs
>> (and all javascript developers).
>
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