nodejs / nodejs/package-maintenance
Question: How to disincentivise selling packages to the highest bidder?
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Description
Unlike traditional labor, where being a good actor is financially rewarding, with open-source labor, there is more monetary incentive in selling packages… and with the current state of open-source remuneration, there seems more incentive by bad actors than good actors to express monetary value for packages
How should this be addressed? Shall npm just disable access and ban any user who sells a package (regardless of good or bad actor)? Will there be a defensive fund by the foundation to outbid bad actors in auctions?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the full discussion on issue #96, including its nine comments, to understand the competing proposals around package sales and defensive funding. The work is done only when the project reaches a concrete, agreed policy or actionable proposal; the issue currently names no files, tests, or implementation entry point.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- nodejs
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100