Developers interested in the ongoing development of the JavaScript library , fork creation. The intention stems from concerns that the project has been left without support after the author, the key developer and the only maintainer, was to one and a half years in a settlement colony (he fatally hit a person at a crosswalk — one of the pedestrians was drunk and fell, and the second bent down to help him up, which prevented them from noticing in time during the dark hours of the night).
Access to infrastructure and the repository was solely with the author, and other developers are now concerned that in the event of vulnerabilities and serious issues being identified, they will remain unaddressed (there are already several dozen error notifications on GitHub). The CoreJS library enjoys great popularity on the NPM repository, with 26 million downloads per week. The number of active users is estimated at 4.5 million, and the number of dependencies tied to CoreJS exceeds 19 thousand project .
Note: The developer , who was not included in the , has the necessary access and intends to work on fixing critical bugs and creating new releases.
Source: opennet.ru
