Polyfill abandoned

[wheresrhys]

It looks like the official* polyfill has been abandonded by github JakeChampion/fetch#777. Is this something that any of the admins of this project have any influence over?

*or is it semi-official? The package name is whatwg-fetch, so it at least looks official

[sideshowbarker]

It‘s not official at all, no even semi-official.

Nobody from the WHATWG was involved in developing it. I guess it ended up with the whatwg-fetch name because at the time they created it, a fetch package already existed (and maybe isomorphic-fetch too?) — so the intent of the package name was just to distinguish it from the other packages by identifying it as “the fetch API based on the WHATWG spec”.

[annevk]

Indeed, if there's an implementation we attempt to maintain as part of the standardization process that would be mentioned in the README (see whatwg/url for instance).