Nat Friedman (GitHub CEO) announced that GitHub has signed the acquisition npm agreement, and said that after npm join GitHub will continue to provide public registry services for free.
After completion of the transaction, the focus GitHub include:
- Provide registry services for the better infrastructure and platform to ensure npm faster, more reliable and has a more powerful scalability
- Improved core experience
- JavaScript maintain a positive interaction with the community
The future will integrate GitHub and npm to enhance the security of open source software supply chain, and allow users to track changes to the package from GitHub PR version of npm fix the problem.