On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 26 April 2016 at 22:00, Stephen Gallagher
<sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> OK folks, it's Bad Decision Time.
>
> I realize this is inopportune, but it's best if we figure out *immediately* how
> we're going to handle this.
>
>
> Options:
> 1) Downgrade back to 4.x, downgrading or dropping any modules in the collection
> that don't run on that LTS version.
> 2) Stick with 5.x for the life of Fedora 24, handling security backports
> ourselves once it hits EOL this summer.
> 3) Upgrade to 6.x, fixing or dropping any modules in the collection that don't
> run on it yet.
>
4) Drop NodeJS from Fedora 24 altogether. If there isn't one already,
have a nodejs team built of people who are interested in it and are
committed to doing things like side builds and similar requirements.
They can then have a plan on what nodejs work should be done and what
plans they will align on. This would be similar to the perl/python and
other groups.. and makes sure that when someone bows out it doesn't
kill the entire stack until someone comes in to build the work again.
There's apparently a Node.js SIG[0], so I guess it'd be their job.
That said, Stephen was part of that SIG and it sounds like he's bowing
out. There's still a few other folks in there.
My main concern is with getting stuff like electron-based programs in
Fedora. Electron depends on Node.js to work, so having a reasonably
up-to-date stack is important if we want to be able to support those
applications.
[0]:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Node.js
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