The original author is out! Faker. JS has been controlled by the community..

source | Director of the /OSC The open source community (ID:oschina2013)

Some time ago ,Faker.js The author in GitHub On “ Delete library ” also GitHub The account was frozen in IT The discussion in the circle can be described as a uproar .

It's just Faker.js The author handles his own open source project Faker.js and colors.js A week later ,Faker.js Now it has become a community controlled project .

At present, the project management team consists of 8 Composed of engineers from different backgrounds and companies .

Faker.js Is very popular Node.js Tool library , Various types of simulation data are provided , For development debugging . One of the earliest Faker Item in 2004 Year by year Jason Kohles For the first time to use Perl Realization . later Marak Realized Node.js edition , And invested a lot of energy and time to maintain Faker.js.

According to introducing , at present Faker.js In the short term, the team will call the library they maintain “ The official library ”, This is to eliminate the confusion caused by many non community maintained rewrites and branches . They have also merged all active branches , When things calm down , The confusion about this library will be reduced , They will also give up using “ official ” The caliber of .

From the project warehouse star In terms of the growth of , Community controlled Faker.js The project has been recognized by many developers .

Self takeover Faker.js since , The team has also done a lot of work , For example issue Classify and review PR、 Provide online documentation 、 Migrate to TypeScript、 Create a public twitter account 、 stay npm Release packages on 、 clear Prettier、CI、Netlify Deploy Previews and GitHub Actions Tools such as .

Besides , They have also drawn up a road map ：

1. Support ESM

2. Browserify => Rollup/Vite

3. Improve testing infrastructure

4. Provide types to generate documents

5. And Faker Interaction of existing maintainers of Ecology

6. Provide interactive... In documents Playground

7. compatible Node 18

Capital , Because I've been to Faker.js The donations of the project are in Open Collective On the platform , The existing team is working with Open Source Collective After communicating with the executive director of the company, a transition plan was formulated ：

• Previously donated to Faker.js The project is funded by Open Collective into fakerjs-legacy Account number （ total 11,652.69 dollar ）, This account will invite Marak And another maintainer Barin Join in

• After completing the fund transfer , The existing team will become Faker.js stay Open Collective Account number of the platform (https://opencollective.com/fakerjs ) The administrator of

• The existing team has announced , If required Marak donation , Please select https://opencollective.com/fakerjs-legacy or http://opencollective.com/marak. Of course, if they receive a note for donation to Marak Capital of , It will also be synchronized and notified .

Last , The team promises that they will continue to develop and maintain the project , Give Way Faker.js Start over and be cooler . because Faker.js Received extensive attention from the media and the community , They plan to make a formal announcement later .

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