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I'm curious what the motivation was for doing this now after supporting faker.js for 8+ years. Also, isn't faker.js a completed project? What is there to maint

I'm curious what the motivation was for doing this now after supporting faker.js for 8+ years. Also, isn't faker.js a completed project? What is there to maintain?

chillfox 6y ago
I am guessing it's the usual, either money or time problems. Could also be burnout I suppose.
- pmontra 6y ago
  Or a change of work environment. Too much paid work or no more JavaScript, who knows. I've been offered to take over the development and maintenance of a small Ruby gem many years ago. I think I contributed a patch or something. I needed that gem in my current Rails project, probably not in the next one. Furthermore I don't work only with Ruby. So I refused. Something like faker is useful in nearly every project and I contributed to the Elixir faker (my customer agreed to that, we needed it.) I learned a couple of things of the Elixir environment in the process. By the way, nice team and great tooling. Would I take over that package if offered? Again no, because I don't use Elixir full time and I'd rather drop another contribution whenever I need it. No time to work on fixes and look at issues not related to my work.
- aldanor 6y ago
  Or the apartment fire. See the comment above.
bdcravens 6y ago
With 179 open issues, many of which seem related to bugs or out of date information, seems like there's quite a bit to maintain.
sleepychu 6y ago
179 open issues as of now https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aopen+.... Looks like people want new data generation, new generation interfaces.
gfody 6y ago
a programmer's work is never done. I imagine this is doubly true for anything js related. this project has 179 open issues and 85 open PRs, impressively almost as many issues as lines of code!
miken123 6y ago
I guess this didn't help: "I lost all my stuff in an apartment fire and am barely staying unhomeless. Lost access to most of my accounts. All precious metal is missing. If anyone could bless paypal@marak.com with a little cash it would help me from freezing on the street. lol." https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272 https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272
- dtparr 6y ago
  Yeah, he appears to be in a bad way. "If anyone can provide me a safe place to live or sanctuary please send DM. I'm looking for any friendly tribe to take me in. Send help yesterday." https://twitter.com/marak/status/1323706909048905731 https://twitter.com/marak/status/1323706909048905731

I'm curious what the motivation was for doing this now after supporting faker.js for 8+ years. Also, isn't faker.js a completed project? What is there to maintain?

chillfox 6y ago

I am guessing it's the usual, either money or time problems. Could also be burnout I suppose.

pmontra 6y ago
Or a change of work environment. Too much paid work or no more JavaScript, who knows. I've been offered to take over the development and maintenance of a small Ruby gem many years ago. I think I contributed a patch or something. I needed that gem in my current Rails project, probably not in the next one. Furthermore I don't work only with Ruby. So I refused. Something like faker is useful in nearly every project and I contributed to the Elixir faker (my customer agreed to that, we needed it.) I learned a couple of things of the Elixir environment in the process. By the way, nice team and great tooling. Would I take over that package if offered? Again no, because I don't use Elixir full time and I'd rather drop another contribution whenever I need it. No time to work on fixes and look at issues not related to my work.
aldanor 6y ago
Or the apartment fire. See the comment above.

bdcravens 6y ago

With 179 open issues, many of which seem related to bugs or out of date information, seems like there's quite a bit to maintain.

sleepychu 6y ago

179 open issues as of now https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aopen+.... Looks like people want new data generation, new generation interfaces.

gfody 6y ago

a programmer's work is never done. I imagine this is doubly true for anything js related. this project has 179 open issues and 85 open PRs, impressively almost as many issues as lines of code!

miken123 6y ago

I guess this didn't help: "I lost all my stuff in an apartment fire and am barely staying unhomeless. Lost access to most of my accounts. All precious metal is missing. If anyone could bless paypal@marak.com with a little cash it would help me from freezing on the street. lol." https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272 https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272

dtparr 6y ago
Yeah, he appears to be in a bad way. "If anyone can provide me a safe place to live or sanctuary please send DM. I'm looking for any friendly tribe to take me in. Send help yesterday." https://twitter.com/marak/status/1323706909048905731 https://twitter.com/marak/status/1323706909048905731