[ffk]

Mikeal's response:

" @ddtrejo @izs @piscisaureus it’s a fork as in the GitHub fork button sense." https://mobile.twitter.com/mikeal/status/520285400279965698

This article acts as if they are going their own separate ways when this is clearly not the case.

Why did someone make a fork? Maybe to submit a patch? Maybe to have their own copy in case the origin decides to delete?

Please be accurate in your posts. Misreporting or misrepresenting puts you and your subject's professional reputations at risk.

[lucideer]

I didn't find the actual content of the blog post particularly informative in itself, but there's plenty of indication that this is not just someone forking to submit a patch.

- https://github.com/node-forward is an organisation, not an individual and has put up various repositories centering around the forking effort.

- They have set up a website, http://nodeforward.org/ - which indicates (albeit with scant detail/background) that this is an independent effort to improve node.

- as zzmp pointed out, there is a fair bit of discussion around indicating some political discontent: https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/7