Build WG Meeting 2015-12-22

[orangemocha]

This is a request for agenda items for the next occurrence of the Build WG meeting.

Meeting Time: 8PM Tuesday December 22nd UTC, or in your local timezone:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Node.js+Foundation+Build+WG+Meeting&iso=20151222T20&p1=%3A

• Hangout on air (for participants): https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYdxS-04lANPTDxY4kfPiaeTvtYloT9K9twUMX_qoMCrtw4cag?hl=en&authuser=0
• To watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKFUFWGHF48

Agenda

Extracted from wg-agenda issues and pull requests from this repo.

• Option to run V8 test suite [https://github.com/Option to run V8 test suite #199]
• PPC platforms as part of standard release [https://github.com/PPC platforms as part of standard release #205]

Also, as suggested by @rvagg but not discussed at the last meeting:

• Probably should discuss how to include node-gyp and NAN in Jenkins, we've had requests for both projects and it makes sense, particularly for NAN which has a big test suite (node-gyp has a ... smaller test suite).
• I've been pondering our ARM hardware and would like to discuss how we might go about ensuring that we have hardware test coverage that is as close as possible to what is being used in the wild for Node—for IoT, hobbyist, etc. users. Consider how newer platforms like Pi Zero have the potential to change the landscape. Also think of MIPS and how we have zero coverage there. It might be something we can defer to the Hardware WG, maybe they can do some surveys or perhaps they have existing data.

If there are any items that you would like to discuss at the meeting, please tag new or existing issues with the wg-agenda label, or simply post them in a comment here.

All welcome of course, primarily @nodejs/build focused but we're happy to expand.

[orangemocha]

A few more points for discussion:

• Getting hardware resources for OSX
• Cutting our own builds of Jenkins
• Setting up Jenkins secondary masters

[mhdawson]

I'm on holiday so won't be able to make this one.

[orangemocha]

This meeting is confirmed for this Tuesday.

[jbergstroem]

(I'll be joining)

[orangemocha]

Meeting notes are here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zScaSAUZiGrbhEk9mFxA8l3isoDq34p3J8TwNnpG5xg/edit

[orangemocha]

On the issue of ARM hardware support, we resolved to ping the hardware WG and see if they already have any data or can help otherwise. @rvagg do you want to take this one?

I'll follow up to these other issues:

• Getting resources for OSX
• Cutting our own builds of Jenkins
• Setting up Jenkins secondary masters