The node.js Community is Quietly Changing the Face of Open Source

[Stefan Behnel]

Steven D'Aprano, 17.04.2013 11:16:
> If you look at the node.js site, the first thing that jumps out at me is 
> that the culture encourages churning out packages rather than encouraging 
> quality packages. The front page offers author recognition for being 
> prolific, but not for writing good code. Good (or at least *popular*, 
> which is not the same thing) packages get their name on the front page, 
> but *authors* get their name on the front page by writing loads of 
> packages regardless of quality.
> 
> The current most prolific author is Sindre Sorhus, and if you look at his 
> list of packages, you will see a certain amount of replication. This is 
> what happens when you reward people for quantity:
> 
> 
> # generator-jasmine  Yeoman generator for Jasmine
> # generator-webapp Default Yeoman generator for scaffolding out a front-
> end web app
> # generator-testacular Yeoman generator for Testacular
> # generator-chromeapp Yeoman generator for Chrome App
> # generator-angular Yeoman generator for AngularJS
> # generator-mocha Yeoman generator for Mocha
> # generator-bbb Yeoman generator for Backbone Boilerplate
> # generator-backbone Yeoman generator for Backbone.js
> 
> 
> https://npmjs.org/~sindresorhus
> 
> I wonder, how much copy-and-pasting between packages does he do?

It's possible that the answer is "none", and that you actually need to
install all of his packages in order to make use of one.

Stefan