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Node.js Foundation Core Technical Committee (CTC) Meeting 2016-10-05 #8915
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The usual reminders that:
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I'm chaperoning a three day field trip for my two boys. I won't be back in On Monday, October 3, 2016, Rich Trott notifications@github.com wrote:
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I should be able to make it, but there’s a good chance I’m late, so don’t wait for me. ;) |
Sorry, I will miss this meeting. I will have to get up very early in the next day. |
I want to propose an agenda item. If this should be a separate issue just let me know. Waiting for V8 5.5 for node 7V8 5.5 comes with a flagless async/await, one of the most anticipated additions to ES. This will tremendously improve the quality of node development. It even has the potential to start a move away from transpilers. The slowdown in load times and additional hassle they add will no longer be outweighed by the pros of extra features they bring anymore, since after async/await, most of the necessary language features will be natively in, and the rest are just nice to haves that justify transpilation only for developers that just have to live on the edge :) It's already 2nd week V8 5.5 is being tested in Chrome Canary, and it'll be a few more weeks before it's released. Waiting these few weeks would mean the whole node community won't have to wait another half a year to get flagless async/await, which would be the best Christmas ever! So please, wait a bit, so we don't have to wait a lot :) |
@darsain, -1 on that, it doesn't look a good idea to me to move Node.js v7 release to December, given that the schedule has been announced and that per schedule the release should happen in October. |
@ChALkeR and others: Since rescheduling releases is out of the question, do you see any other solution for getting V8 5.5 in sooner? |
It may be possible to upgrade mid-cycle like we did in v6.50 with V8 5.0 -> 5.1. Depends on whether we can patch up the API and ABI breakage. |
@imyller, not sure how we could get in V8 5.5 in a Node.js release sooner than December given that V8 5.5 is going to be released in December. |
I started working last week on the possible update to V8 5.5. For now it doesn't seem that there is much to do in order stay backward-compatible. |
@ChALkeR V8 5.5 landing soon-ish after it's released is pretty much all I'm asking for :) Don't know why I was under the impression that significant V8 bumps happen only on major node updates. My bad if that's not the case. |
@darsain It depends, e.g. (as @bnoordhuis mentioned above) in 6.5.0 V8 was bumped from 5.0 to 5.1. But note that the estimated release date of V8 5.5 is not in few weeks, but is scheduled for December, so it won't get into any Node.js release before that. |
I didn't mean sooner than December, but sooner than next major Node.js release after v7.x.x. I think that was the main concern for @darsain. As @bnoordhuis pointed out, there has been mid-cycle V8 upgrades in the past. I believe that just stating such possibility alleviates many concerns. |
Yes, precisely. Sorry for not being clear enough. |
Chiming in: 5.5 is planned to be promoted to Chrome's Stable channel beginning/mid December. At that point it didn't have any Stable coverage yet. Given that Async/await is a complete new feature (and an "intrusive" one) that sounds like a high risk to me. If people want to play around with it they can already activate it via a flag in 5.4 but obviously it is not finished there. @ofrobots FYI |
cc @nodejs/v8 |
Time
UTC Wed 05-Oct-2016 20:00:
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Agenda
Extracted from ctc-agenda labelled issues and pull requests from the nodejs org prior to the meeting.
nodejs/node
nodejs/CTC
Invited
Notes
The agenda comes from issues labelled with
ctc-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
Uberconference; participants should have the link
& numbers, contact me if you don't.
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 CTC that's not worth
putting on as a separate agenda item, this is a good place for it.
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