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Have you considered donating a more significant amount to hopefully prevent it going the way of Sinopia?
by ricardobeat 7y ago
Have you considered donating a more significant amount to hopefully prevent it going the way of Sinopia?
- sheetjs 7y agoThe point, as we've made clear to Juan Picado and other recipients like Kir Belevich of SVGO (https://twitter.com/deepsweet/status/1120290773625450501 https://twitter.com/deepsweet/status/1120290773625450501) is a token of appreciation. We don't want to create any pressure on the developers' part to continue development. To prevent the project from dropping off, the key developers would need to be hired to work on the project. The scale of donation O($100K/yr) is much larger than the cost of just paying npmjs.
- johnmwilkinson 7y agoNot that we don't enjoy donations, but this project won't go the way of Sinopia. Trent and I originally forked Sinopia and purposefully made it an organization rather than putting it into an individual's repo. We very intentionally did not want it to become like Sinopia, though early on we couldn't contribute much to it by way of keeping up with pull requests and bug fixes. Everyone that uses Verdaccio should be really grateful to Juan for the massive amount of work he's put into the project, as well as the other core maintainers over the pass several years. At this point (and for quite a while now) Trent and I have been on the sidelines, still owners of the organization but really more of a fail-safe than anything else. I can't speak to Trent's intentions, but if one day everyone up and left the organization, I would try and at least keep minimal patches going while looking for qualified people to become new maintainers. That scenario is extremely unlikely, however. Verdaccio has a robust number of core contributors, and Juan has from the start been incredibly dedicated to the project. I imagine it will be around for a long, long time.