Mozilla donated $25,000 to JS-Git

https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/325

by rappo • 13 years ago

15 5 13 years ago

Update: Since the Mozilla pledge came through, JS-Git has seen some last minute support. If you believe in the project, you have 10 hours left to pledge!

underwater2• 13 years ago

I don't know Tim Caswell and whether he's capable of building this probject, but his progress so far sounds pretty unfocused.

  I designed a stream system that's both lightweight and works great in both node.js and browser environments. I spent a day creating a module loader for chrome apps so I could use common.js style modules.

That's after taking almost $20,000 for a Kickstarter campaign in which he detailed the risks:

   But in the case that I'm still wrong and it's way harder than I thought, I can promise that the project will have enough of a head start to survive on its own and be usable before the funds run out.

His repo is open source but there doesn't seem to be any committers apart from Tim. Being able to clone a repo is far from being in a usable state. The actual work that was committed seems to have taken place in a little under two months from April to June.

I get that personal projects can be hard to see through, but Tim is asking for tens of thousands of dollars without explaining how he will approach things differently this time around, or even acknowledging he failed his previous backers.

creationix2• 13 years ago

I'm sorry the progress seems to disorganized. I've recently moved to doing work in the main js-git repo to make things more obvious to people.

As far as the first fund-raiser, I was able to stretch the money farther than I had anticipated but as I mentioned in the second fund-raiser, has a slow start.

It's hard to build a large library like this when basic things like streams, packages, module loading, and binary data are so varied and there are no accepted standard ways to work. This is pioneering work, not paving cowpaths.

underwater2• 13 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I would be shocked if there wasn't already a Common.js implementation for the browser.

How do backers know that you are going to be able to effectively use the money this time?

Mozilla donated $25,000 to JS-Git

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