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But...and bear with me as I'm no JS guy and am unfamiliar with that library...how hard is it for the community to fork it and go on from there? Literally every
by bshipp 5y ago
But...and bear with me as I'm no JS guy and am unfamiliar with that library...how hard is it for the community to fork it and go on from there?
Literally every time I find an esoteric library on Github the first thing I do before forking it or adding it to my dependencies is immediately pull up the "network" tab to see if there's are active branch downstream I should follow.
Perhaps Github can do a better job of highlighting hidden downstream forks to direct people to find more updated and supported dependencies?
- xena 5y agoYou can fork it til the cows come home, but everyone downloading core-js off of npm gets the one from upstream.
- bshipp 5y agoTrue, I suppose I should have been clearer: fork and resubmit to npm with a new label. 'core2-js' or something.
- fargle 5y agocan't the governance structure of NPM remove and reassign the NPMish "ownership" and authoritative repo to a new fork in circumstances like the maintainer abandoning it, going to jail, being a dumbass or whatever? If NPM is the authority, it's their own rules that would allow/disallow it, right? (note: I'm unfamiliar with this project, so seriously I'm asking if/why this is an issue)