Will this continue as source of the Faker library? #1

[mmahalwy]

Will this continue as source of the Faker library? #1

[G1itcher]

This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but it seems a little disrespectful to do this?

I believe Marak took his project down specifically to protest exploitation of open source by large companies after losing almost everything in a fire? To nullify his protest like this seems a little wrong to me.

[zachariahtimothy]

This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but it seems a little disrespectful to do this?

I believe Marak took his project down specifically to protest exploitation of open source by large companies after losing almost everything in a fire? To nullify his protest like this seems a little wrong to me.

Is certainly an interesting take. Was it respectful of him to cost our team a couple hours of collective productivity by releasing a new version with no code and leaving us scratching our heads why the build was broken?
It was his prerogative to do that but this is the nature of open source. This library is necessary and utilized by many. Perhaps he should have been appropriately compensated, but to say nobody is allowed to maintain a fake data library because the original author was unsponsored does not make sense to me.

[prisis]

I will try to port old PRs from web archive to this repo

[damienwebdev]

@prisis just to ensure that we respect the original contributor of the PR, can you ref the PR (or the author here) so that we can ping them and have them submit it themselves if they want to?

[zachariahtimothy]

Best thing we can do to avoid this type of thing in the future is to our employers to do more sponsorship! Libraries like this save many many hours of development so why not give even a couple hundred bucks?

[prisis]

Yeah can do it

[G1itcher]

I acknowledge that it's a complicated subject that can't be easily slotted on either side of anyone's morality. Just thought it was worth expressing.

[prisis]

Hey @MilosPaunovic and @gustawdaniel-acaisoft do you like to work with us on faker.js v6?

[MilosPaunovic]

@prisis Hmm... You mean to discard the community-faker altogether?

I'm up for it, as I think it will benefit the open source community more than to have multiple versions of, basically, the same thing. Did you have anything particular on your mind?

[prisis]

@MilosPaunovic Yes :), we would give to maintainer rights if the other team member are fine with it and if you want it :) Nothing particular in mind just to work together :)