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From my perspective the main benefit of this is there is now a non profit that can take over administration of JS projects the community values but the original

by gerbal 10y ago

From my perspective the main benefit of this is there is now a non profit that can take over administration of JS projects the community values but the original developers want to abandon.

adrianratnapala 10y ago
Has such an argangment ever worked in practice? I have read here on HN about how the Apache brand is used as a dumping ground for zombie projects. Why would it be different for the Linux Foundation?
- k__ 10y ago
  Isnt CouchDB an Apache project? Seems to me like it get's updated
  - gtirloni 10y ago
    ~45% of the releases listed on the Apache website are older than a year (900 out of 1961). Source: https://projects.apache.org/releases.html https://projects.apache.org/releases.html
staticvar 10y ago
Perhaps the original developers don't want to abandon these projects, the companies they work for are just not prioritizing funding their development. By placing the Open Source project under non-profit foundation ownership, that foundation can fundraise for their projects as a whole and then hire (at least for some hours) the original developers under that funding. I'm putting words in the JS Foundation's mouth though. It's not what they are saying in that press release.
Semiapies 10y ago
Are they going to do this, however?