Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting 2021-05-27

[mhdawson]

Time

UTC Thu 27-May-2021 21:00 (09:00 PM):

Timezone	Date/Time
US / Pacific	Thu 27-May-2021 14:00 (02:00 PM)
US / Mountain	Thu 27-May-2021 15:00 (03:00 PM)
US / Central	Thu 27-May-2021 16:00 (04:00 PM)
US / Eastern	Thu 27-May-2021 17:00 (05:00 PM)
EU / Western	Thu 27-May-2021 22:00 (10:00 PM)
EU / Central	Thu 27-May-2021 23:00 (11:00 PM)
EU / Eastern	Fri 28-May-2021 00:00 (12:00 AM)
Moscow	Fri 28-May-2021 00:00 (12:00 AM)
Chennai	Fri 28-May-2021 02:30 (02:30 AM)
Hangzhou	Fri 28-May-2021 05:00 (05:00 AM)
Tokyo	Fri 28-May-2021 06:00 (06:00 AM)
Sydney	Fri 28-May-2021 07:00 (07:00 AM)

Or in your local time:

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Links

• Minutes Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dPWwCww2s-gXK4OLPVgwcbCABgPT2cVoQPKocYoKHh8/edit

Agenda

Extracted from tsc-agenda labelled issues and pull requests from the nodejs org prior to the meeting.

nodejs/node

• Future of the Node HTTP Client #38533
• Tracking Issue: commit queue issues and feedback #34770
• Rename default branch from "master" to "main" or something similar #33864
• Migration of core modules to primordials #30697

nodejs/security-wg

• Potential stagnation of open issues on h1 bounty program #654

Invited

• Antoine du Hamel @aduh95 (TSC)
• Anatoli Papirovski @apapirovski (TSC)
• Beth Griggs @BethGriggs (TSC)
• Ruben Bridgewater @BridgeAR (TSC)
• Сковорода Никита Андреевич @ChALkeR (TSC)
• Colin Ihrig @cjihrig (TSC)
• Shelley Vohr @codebytere (TSC)
• Daniel Bevenius @danbev (TSC)
• Danielle Adams @danielleadams (TSC)
• Franziska Hinkelmann @fhinkel (TSC)
• Gabriel Schulhof @gabrielschulhof (TSC)
• Gireesh Punathil @gireeshpunathil (TSC)
• James Snell @jasnell (TSC)
• Joyee Cheung @joyeecheung (TSC)
• Mary Marchini @mmarchini (TSC)
• Matteo Collina @mcollina (TSC)
• Michael Dawson @mhdawson (TSC)
• Myles Borins @MylesBorins (TSC)
• Robert Nagy @ronag (TSC)
• Michaël Zasso @targos (TSC)
• Tobias Nießen @tniessen (TSC)
• Rich Trott @Trott (TSC)

Observers/Guests

Notes

The agenda comes from issues labelled with tsc-agenda across all of the repositories in the nodejs org. Please label any additional issues that should be on the agenda before the meeting starts.

Joining the meeting

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/611357642
Regular password

Public participation

We stream our conference call straight to YouTube so anyone can listen to it live, it should start playing at https://www.youtube.com/c/nodejs+foundation/live when we turn it on. There's usually a short cat-herding time at the start of the meeting and then occasionally we have some quick private business to attend to before we can start recording & streaming. So be patient and it should show up.

Many of us will be on IRC in #node-dev on Freenode if you'd like to interact, we have a Q/A session scheduled at the end of the meeting if you'd like us to discuss anything in particular. @nodejs/collaborators in particular if there's anything you need from the TSC that's not worth putting on as a separate agenda item, this is a good place for that.

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[Trott]

Moderation Team Report:

Blocked a bot: https://github.com/nodejs/moderation/issues/453

@nodejs/tsc @nodejs/moderation @nodejs/community-committee

[targos]

V8 Currency:

• Chrome 91 should be released today (2021-05-25)
• We are not ready to merge V8 9.1, as there are issues with some of the new inspector tests: deps: update V8 to 9.1 node#38273 (comment)

[Trott]

• We are not ready to merge V8 9.1, as there are issues with some of the new inspector tests: nodejs/node#38273 (comment)

I know it's frustrating that the merge is being delayed by this. I hope someone knowledgable about this stuff gets to looking at the problem and solving it soon, and I will try to make some time myself to take a look today. (I'll start the V8 compile now so I can jump in later.)

I wish I could say without qualification that this is the system working as intended. Before the node-inspect stuff was in core, various node inspect features broke and nobody noticed until users starting reporting them. This is letting us know that node inspect is broken with this V8 update before we merge/ship it.

Unfortunately, that kind of breaks down if the problem is in the test itself, which seems likely here. (On the other hand, at least we're making the tests more robust, assuming we fix this in a reasonable way.)

[mhdawson]

No meeting, was just myself, Rich and Tobias.

[ronag]

@mhdawson Sorry, I got delayed.