[stevekemp]

My first thought was related to the name too - it's an unfortunate collision with Brad Fitzpatricks' shipit:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/ShipIt/

[baudehlo]

It's clearly a port of Brad's ShipIt from Perl to JS

[neoziro]

I don't know Brad's Shipit, so it's not a port but it is possible that it's the same thing.