Join the Node Foundation?

[mikeal]

All the documentation for the Node Foundation is ready:

• TSC Charter (Basic Governance)
• Development Policy
• Convergence Plan
• Project Lifecyle (Working Groups Definition)
• WG Merger (List of working groups and how they will be merged)

The gist of it is, the foundation's governance structure is nearly identical to io.js'. In fact, during the process of writing all this down we improved the documentation for most of these policies and made some improvements. The new "converged" node project will begin with io.js master and port changes from node.js in for its first release target.

I wrote an extensive piece on why I think we need a foundation, and why I think the structure the Linux Foundation has setup for the Node Foundation is ideal.

It's now time to make a real decision about moving io.js in to the foundation and, eventually, merging with node.js.

Once we've committed to this we would:

• Rename the GitHub org to "node" or "node-foundation" or whatever.
• Continue releasing io.js while the convergence work is happening.
• Move the TC calls to be TSC calls with the entirety of the TSC (we may have to switch to GoToMeeting because of the size)
• Move the node-convergence repo to the new org as "node"

There's obviously going to be a lot of technical work after that continuing to release io.js until a converged release is ready, targeting the new repo for additional automation, etc, but the immediate steps would be the ones I've outlined above.

For the Working Groups, they would continue to do things as io.js (although the org is renamed) until they have access to the appropriate node.js assets and they decide as a WG to shift their focus.

PS. As a point of process, Working Groups are autonomous, so if the TSC decides to move io.js to the Node Foundation but a WG, for whatever reason, declines they would have to be moved out of the foundation org after the move. This is just a limitation of having to move the org.

[affinity-matrix]

👍 I am still reading through all of the details, but this looks very sensible and well thought out. Thank you for this.

I am in support.

[benjamingr]

If this is going to work it's going to be amazing. We want to make sure as few users as possible have their projects broken during the transition.

[voodootikigod]

Yes. This should be done.

[djensen47]

👍

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[LongLiveCHIEF]

+1

[aheckmann]

👍

[aredridel]

So far, big 👍

[Planeshifter]

👍

[cjihrig]

👍 I think this is best for everyone.

[luke-john]

Hey, so whilst the TSC Charter looks pretty good, the actual foundation charter/bylaws are still nowhere public that I've been able to find.

Shouldn't they be available to consider before people vote on joining this foundation?

[mscdex]

This may sound nit-picky, but IMHO it'd be best if we could stay with a live TSC meeting stream, even if it's not youtube. The live stream allows people to join IRC and ask questions during and at the end of the meeting. Even though there haven't been that many questions at the TC meetings yet, if we publicized this "feature" more, I think we might get more questions?

[affinity-matrix]

While I laud the effort to make things as transparent as possible, I think it's unnecessary (possibly harmful) to require that every TSC member be willing to be subject to a live stream every time there is a meeting to be had.

I believe maintaining minutes should be more than sufficient.

[mscdex]

@emilyrose AFAIK the GotoMeetings are already being recorded, just like the TC meetings are archived on Youtube. The difference however is that GotoMeeting can't do live streaming (too).