agenda for collaborator summit

[boneskull]

• introductions (what developers tools are folks in the room representing?).
• blurb about Node.js' Tooling Group from @boneskull.
• interesting things currently in flight:
  • extended filesystem API (mkdirp, rimraf, readdir).
  • test coverage: coverage: NODE_V8_COVERAGE for Node's test suite, remaining blockers node#22919
• how should we handle backwards compatibility? polyfills? (@evocateur)
• what other API extensions should we be working on?
• call to action (get more folks to join monthly tooling meetings?).
• group meetings & user feedback sessions
• build tooling for any announcements; see nodejs/create-node-meeting-artifacts
• add execvp functionality (@bengl)
• why does cross-spawn even need to exist

(@boneskull, @bengl feel free to edit this)

[mcollina]

Sure! Would you like to send a PR in https://github.com/nodejs/summit/blob/master/2018-10-Vancouver/agenda.md?

[obensource]

I am! 👋See you there! 🎉

[bengl]

I'd like to have some conversation around adding execvp-esque functionality to Node.js.

[evocateur]

It would be interesting to sketch out the back-compat story, if that hasn't already been done elsewhere. (Literal back-ports to older release lines vs userland "ponyfills", etc)

[ruyadorno]

looking forwards to this, will def gonna be there 😊

[bengl]

Here is the progress I have so far on execvp: https://github.com/bengl/node/tree/execvp

I haven't made it into a PR because it's not even close to ready (Windows not working properly, etc.).

[bcoe]

here's the cross-library stuff I was talking about: https://github.com/bcoe/awesome-cross-platform-nodejs

[styfle]

@bcoe Nice list! I got a Desktop JS List with several cross platform tools https://github.com/styfle/awesome-desktop-js

[boneskull]

please dump time zone and availability in #1. cc @guybedford @MichelLopez, otherwise @bcoe has the list of meeting attendees

[bcoe]

see: #6