VM Summit #3

[aruneshchandra]

At VM Summit 2 during Node Interactive Austin, we decided to meet again (end of feb / early march 2017) to evaluate the progress of ABI stable prototypes namely NAPI and FFI and discuss including them in Node v8.0 as experimental.

This onsite meeting is being planned to be held at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. People will be able to participate online as well.

Proposed Agenda:

• NAPI Demo by @mhdawson
• FFI Demo by @ofrobots
• Evaluate above stable ABI solutions to be included as experimental in Node v8.0 and older LTS versions
• Next steps (Documentation, support, bug fixes etc.)

Please respond to this poll to indicate your availability for VM Summit 3
http://doodle.com/poll/qk4krgicifty24kk

The poll is to figure out the exact date for this meeting and also the headcount for onsite attendance.

[mikeal]

Is there a date associated with this?

In the future we may want to try and line these up with TC39 meetings since a few people will overlap.

[digitalinfinity]

@mikeal the doodle poll that @aruneshchandra linked to is to help figure out the date. The options are Feb 28 to Mar 3- these dates were picked with the idea that if we need a go/no go decision on ABI stable node as an experimental feature in Node v8.0, end of Feb/early march lines up with around when that branch will be created, and we should have a good idea around the state of the project (both NAPI and FFI) by then.

[mikeal]

Ah, solid reasoning, thanks @digitalinfinity :)

[aruneshchandra]

Updated the original comment for clarity around dates. Also to @mikeal's point going forward we should better align these meetings to avoid date conflicts and overlaps. This time its more tactical due to v8.0 release schedule.

[mcollina]

I would really like to join, the discussion at Node.js Interactive NA was really good and productive.

[aruneshchandra]

@mcollina please take this poll to indicate your participation preference http://doodle.com/poll/qk4krgicifty24kk

For now its looking like its going to be held at the Microsoft Redmond campus on Friday, March 3rd.

[mcollina]

@aruneshchandra when the final date will be announced?

[aruneshchandra]

I'm expecting a few more to respond to the poll - hopefully we will lock on the date by Friday Jan 20th and allow people to make travel arrangements in advance.

[aruneshchandra]

Based on the doodle poll - here's what the consensus was for the event:

Date: Friday 3rd of March 2017
Time: 9 AM to 4 PM
Location: Building 18 Microsoft Campus, Redmond WA
15701 NE 39th Street, Redmond, WA 98052

[joshgav]

I'm taking notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mIYQ6YjI2yUS07h5dtkXW-EKgyY2_XYjgVFaZt0Yagk.

[ofrobots]

Link to FFI presentation https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rLBk9Erx1pbqLUBjcq_V2bLsiSxfPWT36dC0yLfFMOE/edit#slide=id.g19b3ce55c1_0_32

[aruneshchandra]

N-API Presentation deck
https://github.com/nodejs/abi-stable-node/blob/doc/VM%20Summit.pdf

[joshgav]

Notes: nodejs/abi-stable-node#128

[joshgav]

also posted the notes to this repo in #5

[aruneshchandra]

This event is done. I wrote a blog capturing the high level discussion and next steps.
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/03/13/notes-from-nodejs-vm-summit/