Strikingly non-enterprise management of package management program blocks deployment of anything using Node.js -

Strikingly non-enterprise management of package management program blocks deployment of anything using Node.js - great leading comment by Rob Colbert to this non-apology.
“”“Hey. Crazy kids. This probably needs to be that one event where you sort of realize: “Oh. Shit. Other people…like…use this & stuff. We need a damn road map and a release schedule. Stop smoking dabs all day, breh.”
Now is also a great time to learn how to think about the potential ramifications a production push will have prior to making said production push.
[snip]
Please, try harder or get forked. Not sure how else to say that.
“””
(from earlier this year)
via http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/751 which is basically Node.js considered harmful, and has this to say:
“NPM also has a less-than-stellar operations track record. It used to go down quite often and it was hilarious seeing all the companies that suddenly couldn’t deploy code because NPM was having troubles again. […] We somehow managed to deploy code in the past without introducing a deploy-time dependency on a young, volunteer-run, created-from-scratch package repository.”
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-certificate-is-no-more