Developers interested in continuing development of the JavaScript library , creating a fork. The intention is due to the fear that the project was left unsupported after the author, key developer and sole maintainer was for a year and a half in a colony-settlement (he killed a man at a pedestrian crossing - one of the pedestrians was drunk and fell, and the second bent down to pick him up, which prevented them from being noticed in time in the dark).
Only the author had access to the infrastructure and repository, and other developers now fear that if vulnerabilities and serious problems are identified, they will remain unfixed (in issues on GitHub already several dozen error notifications). By NPM repository, the CoreJS library is very popular and has 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 , including the project .
Addition: Developer , which was not included in , necessary access and intends to work to eliminate critical errors and create new releases.
Source: opennet.ru