Upgrades WG weekly meeting 2019-03-05

Attendees

Alexey @alexeykuzmin
Charles @ckerr
Deepak @deepak1556
Jeremy @nornagon
John @jkleinsc
Sam @marshallofsound
Shelley @codebytere
Ujjwal @ryzokuken

Agenda

Tracking Chromium ToT / Canary
- ToT (Tip of Tree) = Master
- Canary = Nightly~ish (unsure how far behind ToT it is)
- We should never have a broken (CI) tree in electron from a chromium merge
- Two possible ways of doing this:
  1. Track canary in master
  2. Track canary in a separate branch, merge to master as appropriate
    - this is similar to how node works
    - usually ~1 small change a day, sometimes more
- [RESOLVED]: try out tracking canary in a separate branch once M74 is merged
M74 status
- windows & mac CI are good
- Linux has some failures on power observer related things
- network service is enabled by default in M74, but we disable it
  - we'll enable it as a followup
  - not especially urgent, the old code isn't going away yet
  - but it will! don't sleep on this upgrade
Is Node 12 yet?
- there's a branch against node v12.x
  - quite a lot of changes
  - no more builtin, now only internal
    - this is gonna be a good chunk of work for us
    - we'll need to refactor most of our bindings
- nodejs/Release#417
  - RCs 1 per week from March 23rd 2019
  - Release - ETA April 23rd 2019
- consider releasing an older node w/ a newer v8 instead of node mainline
  - node-v8 has a newer v8
- should we downgrade our version of node in 5-0-x?
Windows on arm support
- talked with ARM folks in London
- they have Electron / M74 working on arm/windows???? :O
  - can they share that?
    - no
    - because it's all upstreamed already 🎉
    - there's a remaining node-gyp issue
- being discussed in #proj-win-on-arm
- don't want to support until we can run CI
  - there exists no server-grade win/arm machine
  - initial path will be to use consumer-grade hw sitting in John's office (lol) JCI-in-JST
  - John is in the process of getting HW and wiring it up to azure devops

Action Items

Look into how Canary version numbers work (@nornagon)
try out tracking canary in a separate branch once M74 is merged
- @robo to write a design doc
figure out what we should do re: internal / builtin bindings for embedders (@codebytere)
- embedders use a "linked" binding
- ... which isn't tested and might not work???
- anna will join the #wg-upgrades channel
@nornagon to fix Linux failures on M74