Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting 2020-06-18

[mhdawson]

Time

UTC Thu 18-Jun-2020 21:00 (09:00 PM):

Timezone	Date/Time
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US / Mountain	Thu 18-Jun-2020 15:00 (03:00 PM)
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London	Thu 18-Jun-2020 22:00 (10:00 PM)
Amsterdam	Thu 18-Jun-2020 23:00 (11:00 PM)
Moscow	Fri 19-Jun-2020 00:00 (12:00 AM)
Chennai	Fri 19-Jun-2020 02:30 (02:30 AM)
Hangzhou	Fri 19-Jun-2020 05:00 (05:00 AM)
Tokyo	Fri 19-Jun-2020 06:00 (06:00 AM)
Sydney	Fri 19-Jun-2020 07:00 (07:00 AM)

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Links

• Minutes Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dAUl5x3jptOzrQCsm70WQRIwAsuavfDBK1hK4Objmlg/edit

Agenda

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

nodejs/node

• Rename default branch from "master" to "main" or something similar #33864
• doc: no longer maintain a CNA structure #33639
• bootstrap: include bootstrapped Environment in builtin snapshot #32984

nodejs/TSC

• doc: Charter the package-maintenance working group #880

nodejs/admin

• Audit Google account access #389

Invited

• Anna Henningsen @addaleax (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)
• Franziska Hinkelmann @fhinkel (TSC)
• Gabriel Schulhof @gabrielschulhof (TSC)
• Gireesh Punathil @gireeshpunathil (TSC)
• James Snell @jasnell (TSC)
• Joyee Cheung @joyeecheung (TSC)
• Matheus Marchini @mmarchini (TSC)
• Matteo Collina @mcollina (TSC)
• Michael Dawson @mhdawson (TSC)
• Myles Borins @MylesBorins (TSC)
• Sam Roberts @sam-github (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: Multiple actions involving non-collaborators in https://github.com/nodejs/moderation/issues/354 and https://github.com/nodejs/moderation/issues/347. Blocked a suspected bot in https://github.com/nodejs/moderation/issues/353.

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

[Trott]

Looks like a relatively substantial agenda, so it would be great to get the strategic initiative reports done ahead of time so we can just say "see the minutes or the open meeting issue" at the actual meeting.

Initiative	Champion	Links
Modules	[@MylesBorins]	https://github.com/nodejs/modules
Core Promise APIs	[@mcollina]
V8 Currency	[@targos]
QUIC / HTTP3	[@jasnell]	https://github.com/nodejs/quic
Startup performance	[@joyeecheung]	nodejs/node#17058 nodejs/node#21563
Build resources	[@mhdawson]	nodejs/build#1154 (comment)

[mhdawson]

• Build resources
  • No update this week

[jasnell]

QUIC: CI currently appears to be hung on a couple of jobs so PRs are taking hours to complete. Once that logjam clears I'll be doing one more test run on the QUIC PRs then I will be landing those.

[MylesBorins]

Modules doesn't have anything significant to report. There have not been many issues opened post unflagging on 12.x, which is a good sign 🎉

[mcollina]

No updates on promises

[targos]

V8 Currency:

• V8 8.3 (currently on master) should land on the next v14.x release, scheduled for this week.
• V8 8.4 PR (deps: update V8 to 8.4 node#33579) still WIP, just need help to fix the usual postmortem metadata errors
• A new DCHECK added recently broke our canary builds. It is not clear yet what is the cause but it seems related to the V8 snapshot: Broken debug build node-v8#160

[tniessen]

Too late for me (11pm), sorry.

[mhdawson]

We did not get enough people to have a meeting today, so cancelling.