Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting 2021-07-29

[mhdawson]

Time

UTC Thu 29-Jul-2021 21:00 (09:00 PM):

Timezone	Date/Time
US / Pacific	Thu 29-Jul-2021 14:00 (02:00 PM)
US / Mountain	Thu 29-Jul-2021 15:00 (03:00 PM)
US / Central	Thu 29-Jul-2021 16:00 (04:00 PM)
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EU / Western	Thu 29-Jul-2021 22:00 (10:00 PM)
EU / Central	Thu 29-Jul-2021 23:00 (11:00 PM)
EU / Eastern	Fri 30-Jul-2021 00:00 (12:00 AM)
Moscow	Fri 30-Jul-2021 00:00 (12:00 AM)
Chennai	Fri 30-Jul-2021 02:30 (02:30 AM)
Hangzhou	Fri 30-Jul-2021 05:00 (05:00 AM)
Tokyo	Fri 30-Jul-2021 06:00 (06:00 AM)
Sydney	Fri 30-Jul-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/1QOHDPFOM77zAdqLp-9nNL-0bsCn50c226T3tt4HASNM/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" #33864
• Migration of core modules to primordials #30697

nodejs/TSC

• Resigning from CPC Voting Member #1043
• To be or not to be in core #1041

nodejs/next-10

• Next-10 - Mini-Summit - Aug 5 #76

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.

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[Trott]

Moderation Team Update

• Blocked user: https://github.com/nodejs/moderation/issues/474

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

[ronag]

Kind of small agenda today? I think all of those are either informative or waiting for separate meetings.

[Trott]

Kind of small agenda today? I think all of those are either informative or waiting for separate meetings.

I guess this is a suggestion to cancel? I'm OK with that, although I was hoping to chat with @gireeshpunathil, @targos, @aduh95, and @danielleadams about separate things at some point before/after/during the meeting. I can do that offline, though. Oh, and #1062 is a late addition to the agenda. Might be worth a quick private-segment synch-up on that, but I can put that in email too.

[danielleadams]

Did we cancel?

[mhdawson]

no, a number of us are in the meeting, just waiting to see if we'll get critical mass.

[mhdawson]

PR for minutes: #1064

[aduh95]

Core Promise Initiative status update:

Module name	Promise replacement candidate
child_process	TBD
cluster	TBD
crypto	Web Crypto API
dns	dns/promises
fs	fs/promises
http/http2/https	undici
readline	nodejs/node#37947
stream	stream/promises
timers	timers/promises
zlib	TBD

For the record, the other public core modules which do not expose a callback-API are:

• assert/assert/strict
• async_hooks
• buffer
• console
• constants
• dgram
• diagnostics_channel
• domain
• events
• inspector
• module
• net
• os
• path/path/posix/path/win32
• perf_hooks
• process
• punycode
• querystring
• repl
• string_decoder
• tls
• trace_events
• tty
• url
• util/sys/util/types
• v8
• vm
• worker_threads

@mcollina can you check and correct me if I got something wrong please?

[jasnell]

For the record, the other public core modules which do not expose a callback-API are

Just want to note in case someone comes by this thread and misunderstands... this is not a list of modules for which we necessarily want Promise-based API alternatives. Or, the promise-based alternative may look quite a bit different than what is there currently so the transition is not entirely straightforward.