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agoldis | 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your concerns, Jessica, we tried to be fully transparent and share our findings with the interested audience. I have added a disclaimer that explicitly mentions the owners of the packages to avoid confusion.

- The article clearly states what entities are affected - Currents, Sorry Cypress and Deploy Sentinel; it doesn't claim those are random package authors.

- Not all the listed packages are written by the dude or written and _THEN_ forked, we provided a detailed breakdown of each package origin. For example, @deploysentinel/cypress-debugger is a completely standalone, innovative software released more than a year before Cypress Test Replay and cypress-debugger

- The article lists all the blocked packages we were able to discover. We published the full list to be totally transparent. Obviously, we create and work on cypress-related packages - e.g. a vscode extension for cypress. There was also a rename from Cypress Dashboard to Cypress Cloud. NPM lists ~1.6K packages with "cypress-" prefix. Another example: we ran a survey on a community Slack channel with ~500 members to pick a name for cypress-debugger - the options were: cypress-debugger, cypress-debug, cypress-tracer; cypress-debugger won.

An interesting experiment would be to rename those packages. Do you believe they will be unblocked?

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