But they are changing the “project”. Just because the new project is named “Faker-JS” doesn’t make it “official”.
Does the open collective have the ability to decide who is in charge of a project? Can they remove maintainers?
Let’s say there is a fork of a different popular project. Are you suggesting that they could they unilaterally decide to support the fork over the original project? However unlikely that is, I don’t think they have that power. Decertifying a project? Sure. Redirecting funding to a new project (even a fork), just isn’t right.
Does the open collective have the ability to decide who is in charge of a project? Can they remove maintainers?
Let’s say there is a fork of a different popular project. Are you suggesting that they could they unilaterally decide to support the fork over the original project? However unlikely that is, I don’t think they have that power. Decertifying a project? Sure. Redirecting funding to a new project (even a fork), just isn’t right.