Time for a proper meeting (?)

[rvagg]

When we decided to move into the io.js org we collectively agreed that we didn't really want to add the overhead of a regular meeting or anything above GitHub chatter because it had been working so well. I'm certainly not keen to add more meetings to my calendar, however, there are a number of outsiders that are looking to get involved that would be of great value to both NAN and the broader ecosystem in general and they can't see an obvious way to get up to speed. So I'd like to propose we have a meeting within the next couple of weeks to talk about the current state of the project, the future (tentative) plans for the project and see what others would like to be able to contribute.

In particular, the IBM V8 team would like to get involved in contributing and they have some excellent expertise around V8 due to the porting work they've had to do for their architectures. Also, the Microsoft Node/Chakra team would like to explore ways to bridge their work in their Chakra fork with the native addon ecosystem. The work they have done so far in bridging the Chakra API to appear as the V8 API to Node is very impressive and I see this as a great wedge for any work we may want to do for a more generalised compatibility layer.

I'll put up a doodle soon so we can find a good time unless I get shouted down by people who don't want to meet. At a minimum it would be good to have @kkoopa and @bnoordhuis on board.

[bnoordhuis]

I don't have much time for the next two weeks. Not at times that I speculate work for others, at least.

[kkoopa]

I can probably accommodate a one-off meeting almost any day.

[orangemocha]

cc @geoffkizer, @jianchun from Chakra, and please count me in!

[joransiu]

Hi, I'm one of the IBM V8 developers who's interested in getting involved. Thank you for setting up this meeting! My schedule is pretty flexible too, but might be taking some time off around Canada's Day (July 1st).

[piscisaureus]

add me

[trevnorris]

Add me.

[geek0x23]

I'm probably a bit late to this party, but I'd love to be involved.

[justinmchase]

I may not have much to contribute but I'd like to hear about the results of this discussion, so if someone could post notes from the meeting that would be valuable I think.

[imran-iq]

Hi, (also a bit late to this party) I was wondering if there were any future meetings coming up and/or if there was any write ups from the last meeting.

[bnoordhuis]

I don't think we've actually had any meetings yet. Is there still interest in having one?

Aside: there is probably some overlap with the API WG.

[geek0x23]

I'm definitely still interested. We recently transitioned to Node v4.x and NAN v2.x for our binary addons.

[imran-iq]

I would be interested in getting involved as well