why aren't all 8 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Rogers: Node.js expanded core committers from 7 to 90 in 18 months
“And so, I mean, at the point that we, you know, that we had this disagreement, we were down to, you know, maybe a high of seven committers. Today, about a year and a half later, we have 90 committers.”
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Rogers: 95% of Node.js core commits land without governance body approval
“95% of the commits that we get into core do just land without ever having to go to the CTC, which is the governance body.”
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Rogers: Open-source user count does not correlate with maintainer count
“What Nadia has found and actually, like, demonstrated with real data is that there really is no connection between the number of users and the number of people actually maintaining a project.”
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Rogers: Node.js user adoption doubles every year
“The users of Node.js are still doubling every year”
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Rogers: Over 400 people contribute to the broader Node.js ecosystem
“If you look at the website and localizations and everything else, we actually have like over 400 people.”
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Rogers: Node.js website contributors successfully transition into Node core
“One of the things that we've noticed in the Node project is like we broken up things that you can get involved in. So if you just have the skills to work on a website, you can actually work on the Node.js website. And we see people transition from that into co…”
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Rogers: Node.js maintains quality with 90 committers reviewing contributions
“The reason why it's not very sloppy is because we dramatically increase the number of committers. So, like, there are, you know, 90 people that can review this.”
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Rogers: MIT license is now the most popular open source license
“The MIT license. So the MIT is a liberal license, similar to, like, the BSD license. It's now, I think, the most Popular license.”