Seems disingenuous, since the email talked about "branding on expressjs.com", but what actually happened was moving the github repo out of the independent expressjs organization into strongloop's namespace, which is extremely different. It sounds like TJ doesn't understand what part of this was upsetting.
It's amusing, the sense of entitlement expressed by contributors. There were some hiccups along the way, but everyone was given back their commit rights.<p>If you want it to be "your" project, fork it. Everyone who was working on Express was working on TJ's project. There were no "rightful maintainers".<p>When TJ decided to step away from node, he did offer to give up all his projects to people he felt could maintain them the best. He has said repeatedly he feels StrongLoop can maintain it best. I agree with TJ. The Express "community" can throw all the tantrums they want. It was never their project.
There's also an article about this matter -- <a href="http://hueniverse.com/2014/07/30/open-source-dickishness/" rel="nofollow">http://hueniverse.com/2014/07/30/open-source-dickishness/</a>