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scljstcwombat
12y ago
I don't care how much anyone dislikes Cantrill, but standing up for Ben about this is a mark of shame. > You took no time to talk to Ben about his position and to talk him around to making an apology and reversing his decision. Wher
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scljstcwombat
12y ago
It's always been amateur hour over there. The 'official' install was `curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh`[1], package checksums aren't uniformly checked, the list goes on. But don't worry guys, t
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12y ago
No, because it's perfectly clear. But perhaps I can restate: indutny's behaving in bad faith, which should be perfectly obvious to anyone. Max Ogden (the original and unofficial author of the opinion posted above) would like to be
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scljstcwombat
12y ago
Ah yes, Mikeal, whose capability of double-think is so well-developed that he can claim to not understand what "fragmentation" means while at the same time advocating to do precisely that - https://github.com/iojs&
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12y ago
The author seems like an optimist, but "many core contributors will help maintain both node.js and io.js" seems to disagree with reality, since indutny has been landing PRs to node only in the forks. He's a core contributor.
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12y ago
> actively seeking input on new features like better numerical comp libs That is one of the most comedic issues on github. Worth a read, but tl;dr: "all we need is to compile these ancient libraries! It should be easy, they are anci
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12y ago
> Joyent, the current project stewards, have not been able to deliver a stable release in that time and don't share public plans / aren't communicating very much. They probably don't want to publicly call out one of t
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12y ago
It's raining node forks: https://github.com/io-forward/io-forward
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12y ago
Ben's answers on this have always been deeply unsatisfactory: 1) a) the merge was accomplished trivially by another maintainer; the idea that there was "more work" required of ben is demonstrably false. 1) b) he undertook mo