doc: add notes from collab summit discussion #11
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PR-URL: nodejs#11 Reviewed-By: <tbd> Reviewed-By: <tbd>
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William & Jeremiah were there for the early part of the discussion. Troy was also there, but I didn't catch his last name or github handle. |
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| * Should only projects actively supported by core be in Foundation? | ||
| * Bring them all in? Not sustainable. | ||
| * So if something is to be in core/Foundation, would need to be one, and would |
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why only one? This makes no sense to me. Bringing in two, or three, in no way is a slippery slope to "all".
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@ljharb the key new understanding we reached in our discussion Thursday was that any project in the Foundation needs to be actively supported by the Foundation. That means at least engineers maintaining and updating it, but more than that indicates some degree of assumed responsibility for us here in core; perhaps to address bugs and security issues, perhaps something else. /cc @mikeal @rvagg for further thoughts.
Based on that understanding it's probably not sustainable to support more than one in core, so we want to be conscientious about what that one is.
Does that help explain why it seems "only one in the Foundation" might be our goal? Do you think we could support more?
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I think it would be best to continue this discussion here: nodejs/TSC#96 (comment). Thanks!
| * nvm uses POSIX. Best part is that it doesn’t require JS or a Node runtime. But | ||
| it doesn’t work on Win32 and it’s more difficult to modify. | ||
| * Maybe we should focus on Windows independently anyway? JS code would also be | ||
| full of “#ifdef”-like statements. |
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NVS is a cross-platform JS version-manager that is not full of "#ifdef"-like statements. While there certainly are some platform-specific sections of code, the great majority of the implementation can be cross-platform, thanks to the cross-platform APIs provided by the Node.js core modules.
Another significant consideration not listed here is that two separately-developed tools are unlikely to provide consistent functionality and user experience across platforms.
cc @ljharb @jasongin @coreybutler @marcelklehr
I didn't get all attendees names, so would be great if you could note them here. Thanks!