io.js TC Meeting 2014-12-30

Agenda

sys: Remove after 3 years of deprecation #182 https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/182
module: force require('process') to return a reference to process #206 https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/206
File copyright policy #216 https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/216
Rename v0.12 to v1.0.0 https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/218
Merge strategy (v0.10 and joyent/node)

Ben: what sort of strategy to take? Deprecated only in the docs but no warning. Looking for an official deprecation policy.
Bert: suggest we could properly deprecate but not a good case for removing it completely, Chris agreed
Fedor: suggested a policy that removal of deprecated features should be done where there is a maintenance overhead, but otherwise if there is little/no cost then "who cares"
Discussed a deprecation message on require(‘sys’)
- Ben: -0
- Fedor: +1
- Chris: +1
- Trevor: -0
- Bert: +1
No disagreement to adding a deprecation message, ask initial PR submitter to change to just adding a message

#157 has a long discussion on this: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/157
Chris: +1 on a PR adding this
Trevor: it just returns a global, no point
Bert: not the way that JS adds new features; discussed the new Intl addition to joyent/node, in favor of making more things requirable rather than adding new globals all the time
Tangential discussion on the Intl object being added in joyent/node
Collected votes:
- Bert: +0
- Ben: +0.5
- Trevor: -0
- Fedor: +1
- Chris: +1
Ben to handle the merge / resolution

Rod asked if there are any strong opinions about how to handle this
Group agreed that Rod will take this issue and seek legal advice to find a way forward

Trevor: concerns about 1.0 vs 1.x branch naming with maintaining semver releases while also doing LTS, 1.x effectively becomes master until a 2.0 comes along.
Bert: -1
Ben: +1
Chris: +1
Fedor: +1
Trevor: 0

Action: Rename to "v1.x", Ben agreed to make the change

Much discussion about merge strategies, patches, branches, etc.
Agreed to merge regularly
Bert agreed to monitor the situation and propose a merge strategy when the time is right