Azer Koçulu
Azer Koçulu is a JavaScript open-source developer and the original author of packages including left-pad. He became widely known for the 2016 npm unpublishing incident, in which his removal of packages directly triggered a dependency crisis in the front-end ecosystem.
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The left-pad incident was a famous accident in the npm ecosystem in March 2016: developer Azer Koçulu, due to a dispute with a company over a package name, removed the 273 packages he had published from npm, including left-pad, which was indirectly depended on by a large number of projects.
The left-pad incident was triggered when Kik demanded that npm forcibly transfer the package name "kik," and author Azer Koçulu, in protest, unpublished all approximately 273 of his packages from npm.
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The left-pad incident was a famous accident in the npm ecosystem in March 2016: developer Azer Koçulu, due to a dispute with a company over a package name, removed the 273 packages he had published from npm, including left-pad, which was indirectly depended on by a large number of projects.
50%UnverifiedThe left-pad incident was triggered when Kik demanded that npm forcibly transfer the package name "kik," and author Azer Koçulu, in protest, unpublished all approximately 273 of his packages from npm.
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