Enable GitHub Codespaces for Node.js

[ovflowd]

Recently, the OpenJS Foundation pivoted, enabling Codespaces Billing on the Webpack organisation (openjs-foundation/cross-project-council#1009). I'd like the same to be done on the Node.js organisation.

I can see clear benefits in productivity as we could access the large Codepsaces Runners and build Node.js on the cloud if needed. Also, it would bring benefits where collaborators are far from their development machines but could still contribute.

At least I'm already using it daily for the Website Team, but paying from my pocket.

I don't know if this needs TSC consensus. cc @nodejs/tsc

[ovflowd]

cc @mhdawson

[targos]

SGTM as long as we have the budget for it and it is not abused.

[ovflowd]

SGTM as long as we have the budget for it and it is not abused.

We should probably enable only specific repositories. Afaik, this is configurable. And we can keep track of the billing to see who users are potentially abusing the system.

[mcollina]

sgtm

[ovflowd]

Do we need to add this to the TSC agenda, or is this sgtm enough to the point of simply requesting the Foundation to do it?

Or are there any further details to be done?

[Trott]

Probably a good idea to add it to a TSC agenda for awareness purposes, but also I'd consider open-for-5-days-with-2-approvals-from-TSC-members sufficient to make the request.

And it SGTM too, so that's three TSC members.

[BridgeAR]

SGTM

[ovflowd]

@Trott was there any review? Or any update? Or does tsc-review only means, awaiting for TSC members to approve?

[RaisinTen]

tsc-review was removed in nodejs/node#26506. Any chance you wanted to apply the tsc-agenda label, so that this issue gets mentioned in the next meeting for awareness purposes? FWIW, this issue was very briefly mentioned in https://www.youtube.com/live/ikPN11Qksl8?feature=share&t=373 but no review happened on the meeting.

[ovflowd]

Hmm, yeah I guess tsc-agenda then?

[mhdawson]

@ovflowd can you confirm that if we enable, it will only be able to be used up to the $ that the Foundation has provided? If so then I'm STGM as well.

[ovflowd]

Hey @mhdawson according to this https://github.com/openjs-foundation/cross-project-council/blob/main/project-resources/REQUESTING_GITHUB_RESOURCES.md, yes.

(And I double-checked with Ben). He would need to be added as Billing Manager (as stated in the doc) and then we can put limits, limit how many codespaces each user can create, we can even limit which repositories can have codespaces (billed to the Node.js org) and even limit who can have access to it (if we want to make it opt-in)

[mhdawson]

LGTM

[ovflowd]

@mhdawson let me know once there's an update on the next TSC meeting, so depending of the outcome I'd be able to forward this to the CPC :)

[mhdawson]

@ovflowd its on the agenda for the TSC meeting this week. I'll let you know the outcome of any discussion.

[mcollina]

SGTM, approved in today's TSC meeting

[ovflowd]

Opened a PR on the Foundation's CPC repository: openjs-foundation/cross-project-council#1149