transfer to gulpjs

[dominictarr]

I no longer use this module, and thus do not have very much intrinsic motivation to maintain it.

event-stream is used by many modules in the gulp ecosystem, and so I think the gulp community would be better stewards of event-stream

Would it be okay if I transfered this to the gulp organization?

@gulpjs @callumacrae @contra @gratimax @heikki @phated @robinboehm @tkellen

[phated]

Support for event-stream is deprecated. Everything is supposed to move to through2, et al. Maybe just fully deprecate this module?

[tkellen]

@phated beat me to it

[dominictarr]

it still has 3 million downloads a month, and a lot of gulp-* in the dependants list...
you could of course, update it to through2?

[phated]

Mississippi already takes care of that niche. Also, we are no longer going to recommend grab-bag modules. Stream utilities are really not something we want to take on. Event-stream is broken with the latest wip gulp so people will need to update eventually.

[contra]

@phated Might be worth updating it then deprecating (if it isn't too tricky) so gulp 4 doesn't break everything that uses it.

@dominictarr Very thoughtful to open discussion btw, thanks!

[phated]

@contra no, it's only broken with merge. A better solution than taking on even more responsibility (no thank you) is to open issues on all the repos to update. Which we already discussed (having a hard time tracking down the issue ATM).

This module definitely should be deprecated. There are other modules that do what it did but for streams2 and 3. It's fine to let things go.

[dominictarr]

Okay well my other thought was to put, basically, an advert for pull-streams at the top of the readme (a project which I am interested in maintaining)

But that seemed like it might not be in the best interests of the community, (although, prehaps they would be very happy with pull-streams) but if glup has moved on anyway, prehaps I'll put a note about upgrading your gulp modules, and about pull-streams too?

[jdalton]

@dominictarr There's also a handy npm command to add a deprecation warning on install.

[phated]

Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. A "For gulp users: use through2 or mississippi or something" section and a "For everyone else: use pull-streams because node streams are busted" section.