For those unfamiliar with GitHub issues, you can just scroll up to see what preceded the event in this link - note that this issue was closed[0] by the maintainer 2 days ago, along with a comment from the maintainer saying "I am closing down Express 5.0". The reopening of this issue is great news for the Express community, and Node in general (as Express is #2 on the list of "packages people 'npm install' a lot"[1]).
For more context, you can look at some comments about this event on reddit[2].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11185009
[1] https://www.npmjs.com/#explicit
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/47s9o8/im_closi...