Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting 2023-06-07

[mhdawson]

Time

UTC Wed 07-Jun-2023 19:00 (07:00 PM):

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Links

• Minutes Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qcjnx7WpzMU9vqOvUasA9cZ1pkRZxrIC1601J-kCfr4/edit

Agenda

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

nodejs/node-gyp

• DISCUSSION: Release handling #2860

nodejs/node

• module: make CJS load from ESM loader #47999

nodejs/TSC

• CLI tools behind a Nodejs namespace #1178

nodejs/admin

• Archive nodejs/help in favour of a Help Section on Discussions #802

Invited

• Antoine du Hamel @aduh95 (voting member)
• Anatoli Papirovski @apapirovski (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)
• Yagiz Nizipli @anonrig (strategic initiative champion)

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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Invitees

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[anonrig]

Recent changes from the performance initiative:

• I opened a back-port for Ada v2.5 to LTS (which comes with 100% performance boost)
• Khafra started writing mimesniff which will be included in the next release of Ada. https://github.com/ada-url/mimesniff
• Vinicious opened a pull request for improving the performance of legacy main resolve in module resolution: src,lib: reducing C++ calls of esm legacy main resolve node#48325
• I opened a pull request for adding NDEBUG=1 to clang flags. Feedback is appreciated. build: add -DNDEBUG=1 to clang flags node#48271
• Libuv 1.45.0 - 800% faster filesystem ops got merged into Node and will be included in the next release
• Khavil did some amazing work on improving & reducing the compilation time of Node.js
• I started focusing on ESM loader performance. Currently reducing the URL invocations.

[mhdawson]

@anonrig thanks for the update !

[RafaelGSS]

I'd like to mention https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/issues/420 in this meeting if possible

[gireeshpunathil]

I cannot make it to this meeting - 12.30 AM for me.

I have made my opinion for nodejs/admin#802 in the issue; if it comes for voting pls register -1 from me.

[richardlau]

I can't make it to this meeting either. I added nodejs/node-gyp#2860 to the agenda. @rvagg had sent an email last December about not having the time to maintain node-gyp that @mhdawson forwarded to the rest of the TSC in January.

This is specifically about the Javascript wrapper around gyp(-next) (which is its own separate project written in Python).

[GeoffreyBooth]

I can attend today but only for the first half, in case we want to discuss #1397 or nodejs/node#47999 or anything else I’m involved in.

[mhdawson]

PR for minutes - #1398