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The Javascript community has been a buzz with criticism of Joyent, the benevolent dictator of Node.js. Five of the top seven contributors to the Node.js project are telegraphing an abandon ship and Joyent has done little to assuage them or the community with their newly minted advisory board. Node.js is currently used by PayPal, Netflix and Uber (as well as your's truly); deep pockets are interested in the outcome. While Joyent is plugging holes, the five dissenters are picking out a logo for their new open source project.
Popular open source projects like Node have thousands of contributors who don’t always agree how the project should be managed. Threats to “fork” a project by taking the code base in a different direction—and bringing a substantial portion of the original community with it—are extremely common. They also usually never come to pass. Some developers always seem to be threatening to fork the programming language Python 2.7 in order to bypass Python 3, an upgrade many coders disliked. Yet that particular fork-fest has never gotten underway, largely because its proponents remain a minority in the overall Python community.
http://readwrite.com/2014/11/12/node-js-joyent-possible-fork-schism
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