Probably relevant-

This week's Node.js weekly [1] mentions: "Last week we mentioned the long awaited status of npm 6.9.1 and the possible ‘strike’ [2] in ongoing community work on the project, but npm’s Isaac Z. Schlueter has stepped up, got a release out"

[1] https://nodeweekly.com/issues/294

[2] https://gist.github.com/aeschright/8ed09cbc2a4aee00fcb4ad350...