[evv]

Why would it be a bad thing to support additional repositories? Personally, I don't like how centralized the JS ecosystem is.

For example, if I refer to 'left-pad', it would default to 'npmjs.org/left-pad'. If the author goes rougue, I think it would be great to enable people to publish and consume 'thirdparty.com/left-pad'

Disclosure: I'm a FB employee with no knowledge of our plans in this regard

[swang]

1. any left-pad issue has been "eliminated" with the new rules npm (the company) has enforced.

2. you can already have your own version of thirdparty/left-pad by maintaining your own npm repository. i think what your parent post is referring to is facebook saying we're going to make our own public node/javascript package registry and you should publish to our registry.

doing this at the moment does nothing for the community other causing a lot of pain points. ex) now npm authors will have to publish to both registries so developers don't have to dig to find where it was published to, then they also have to hope that someone else didn't register the module name in one of the registries..

there is just too much splintering if facebook decided to become a competing registry rather than just using npm's registry and building on top of it.

[dmitriid]

> any left-pad issue has been "eliminated" with the new rules npm (the company) has enforced.

Only to resurface again: http://status.npmjs.org/incidents/dw8cr1lwxkcr

And it will, no doubt, resurface again and again and again

[davidascher]

Somewhat funny to have an FB employee complaining about overly centralized systems.

[foo101]

I used to find such comments funny until I began working for Big Name Corps myself and I realized how much one's personal philosophy could be inconsistent or sometimes even contradictory to the employer's philosophy. I make money by selling my skills to an employer despite inconsistent philosophies. I think it's like a chef that can cook meat for his/her guests although the chef has decided to refrain from consuming meat himself/herself.

[suls]

It's sort of related to the principal-agent problem ..

[davidascher]

Yup. And such a chef probably wouldn't publicly berate people for eating meat, or expect being called out if they did.

[foo101]

Yup. And I don't see anyone berating anybody in this thread. Do you?

[joepie91_]

Have a read here: https://github.com/nodejs/NG/issues/29#issuecomment-17431452... - it's a writeup that I made a while ago about the requirements for a stable (decentralized) package registry, and it addresses your question as well.