Node.js 6.14.1, 8.11.1 and 9.10.1 will *not* be built for Fedora or EPEL

[Stephen Gallagher]

Just a general notice to anyone using Node.js in Fedora. We're not going to
be rebuilding for the releases in the Subject because there's no need. The
X.Y.1 releases were created because of a compilation mistake made by the
upstream binary release process and contain no additional commits. Since
Fedora and EPEL rebuild all of the sources in our own build environment,
there is no need to issue an update at this time.

[Robert Van Voorhees]

While on the topic of Node.js versions, do we plan on moving Fedora 28 to
Node 10, since their release dates coincide, or will Node 10 be pushed
until Fedora 29?

For those not aware, Node 10 is the next LTS, however it's LTS support does
not start until October even though the release is slated for April:
https://github.com/nodejs/Release


On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 8:37 AM Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com&gt;
wrote:

>  Just a general notice to anyone using Node.js in Fedora. We're
> not going
>  to be rebuilding for the releases in the Subject because there's no need.
>  The X.Y.1 releases were created because of a compilation mistake made by
>  the upstream binary release process and contain no additional commits.
>  Since Fedora and EPEL rebuild all of the sources in our own build
>  environment, there is no need to issue an update at this time.
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[Stephen Gallagher]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 8:41 AM Robert Van Voorhees <rcvanvo(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  While on the topic of Node.js versions, do we plan on moving Fedora
> 28 to
>  Node 10, since their release dates coincide, or will Node 10 be pushed
>  until Fedora 29?
>
>  For those not aware, Node 10 is the next LTS, however it's LTS support
>  does not start until October even though the release is slated for April:
>  https://github.com/nodejs/Release
>
>  
My plan is for Fedora 28 traditional RPM repositories to ship Node.js 8
because I don't like changing defaults after Beta release. However, as
Fedora 28 is now the first release with support for Fedora Modularity, you
may have noticed that it is also providing a non-default module for Node.js
6.x and 9.x that one can switch to. So what I intend to do is package up
Node.js 10.x as quickly as possible and make that a non-default module in
F28 and the default for F29.

So, you'll be able to use it in Fedora 28 by doing `dnf module install
nodejs:10` if you want to. Also available as a module will be 6.x and 9.x
if you really want or need them, though they won't carry updates past
upstream's EOL, which is in April 2019 for 6.x and June 2018 for 9.x).