Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting 2023-08-16

[mhdawson]

Time

UTC Wed 16-Aug-2023 13:00 (01:00 PM):

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Links

• Minutes Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/137u8HtmcwawESg5b-ysDiwCjLt65-kSBOdN1CcRbYSY/edit

Agenda

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

nodejs/node

• src: add built-in .env file support #48890
• esm: add import.meta.dirname and import.meta.filename #48740

nodejs/TSC

• Collaborator Meeting before the NodeConfEU #1422
• Freeze releases and website changes, pending cache fixes? #1416
• Remaining OSSF Funding #1384

nodejs/admin

• Enable GitHub Codespaces for Node.js #808

Invited

• Antoine du Hamel @aduh95 (voting member)
• Yagiz Nizipli @anonrig (voting member)
• Anatoli Papirovski @apapirovski (voting member)
• Benjamin Gruenbaum @benjamingr (voting member)
• Ruben Bridgewater @BridgeAR (voting member)
• Colin Ihrig @cjihrig (voting member)
• Danielle Adams @danielleadams (voting member)
• Geoffrey Booth @GeoffreyBooth (voting member)
• Gireesh Punathil @gireeshpunathil (voting member)
• James Snell @jasnell (voting member)
• Joyee Cheung @joyeecheung (voting member)
• Chengzhong Wu @legendecas (voting member)
• Matteo Collina @mcollina (voting member)
• Michael Dawson @mhdawson (voting member)
• Moshe Atlow @MoLow (voting member)
• Rafael Gonzaga @RafaelGSS (voting member)
• Darshan Sen @RaisinTen (voting member)
• Richard Lau @richardlau (voting member)
• Robert Nagy @ronag (voting member)
• Ruy Adorno @ruyadorno (voting member)
• Michaël Zasso @targos (voting member)
• Tobias Nießen @tniessen (voting member)
• Rich Trott @Trott (voting member)
• Beth Griggs @BethGriggs (regular member)
• Ben Noordhuis @bnoordhuis (regular member)
• Сковорода Никита Андреевич @ChALkeR (regular member)
• Shelley Vohr @codebytere (regular member)
• Daniel Bevenius @danbev (regular member)
• Franziska Hinkelmann @fhinkel (regular member)
• Gabriel Schulhof @gabrielschulhof (regular member)
• Brian White @mscdex (regular member)
• Myles Borins @MylesBorins (regular member)
• Rod Vagg @rvagg (regular member)
• Tiancheng Timothy Gu @TimothyGu (regular member)

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.

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[anonrig]

As a follow-up for the .env pull request I've created an issue: nodejs/node#49148. I recommend going over this in the context of .env pull request that has the tsc-agenda label.

[GeoffreyBooth]

Re nodejs/node#48740, I opened a proposal in the WinterCG repo: wintercg/proposal-common-minimum-api#54. Unfortunately no one from Bun or Deno has commented on the proposal yet, though it’s only been a few days. I think if we hear nothing by midweek maybe we should start reaching out? I think the goal would be to try to get some version of this proposal landed (or ready to land) before next month’s WinterCG meeting, so that once it’s landed we can update nodejs/node#48740 if necessary and then land it.

In loaders news, we’ve just about reached our milestone for stability: https://github.com/nodejs/loaders#milestone-2-stability. This week’s release should include everything except removing the globalPreload hook, which should be ready to land before the following release (and we wanted to space that out anyway, so that there was at least one release with both globalPreload and its replacement initialize); once the removal PR lands, then the overall API is ready to go into “release candidate” stage and we’ll await bug reports and hopefully make no more API changes. I’d like to get into RC this month and go stable as soon as October with Node 21. That would give us something to announce with the 21.0.0 release.

[mhdawson]

closing as long past.