Garren, correct me if I'm wrong but Fauxton depends on a large number of JS dependencies that we don't keep copies of, correct? Or is it just for the build process?
-Joan ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alexander Shorin" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 2:08:20 PM > Subject: Re: On dependency management and CI issues associated with it > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It's a thread derail but this notion that we're being "fairly rude" > > needs resolving. It might be lost to history now but we got here, > > I think, with the best intentions of ensuring all the code that > > appears in couchdb can be traced back to code hosted at asf. Is it > > a concrete requirement? I honestly forget but I thought so. > > Yes, that's the answer why. If one day mochiweb owner will decide to > drop his github repo, we shouldn't be leave with broken builds. See > leftpad story as well. Initially, that requirement seems redundant, > but recent npm drama showed that it has a huge point. Also there are > some legal bits about. > > -- > ,,,^..^,,, >
