What's new in Node.js 2024

[mhdawson]

Opening this issue in support of Sharing project news

TLDR;

The project aims to make it easy to share project news with those who publish newsletters that cover Node.js.

The next-10 team will be reaching out to periodicals like Node.js weekly to point them at this issue and other issues created by teams across the project.

This issue is to share project news related to Node.js core

We trust/expect collaborators to post project related news versus news that promotes a specific company or commercial interest.

[debadree25]

Will all announcements be posted in this thread? Maybe we should pin it!

[mhdawson]

@debadree25 the idea was to post them in this thread, pinning woul dmake sense to me.

[mhdawson]

@nodejs/collaborators wanted to give everybody an FYI that we've recently reached out to a number of the publications on the list mentioned in nodejs/next-10#110 (comment) and now and going forward is a good time to start sharing project news in this discussion thread.

[RedYetiDev]

Is there a possibility of this being updated for 2024, IMO it feels outdated

(This being the pinned discussion)

[UlisesGascon]

I updated the title :)

[Trott]

Given that there has been nothing shared for almost a full year ever, maybe we can unpin this, close it, and remove it from the documentation?

[peterc]

Delivering news from the Node.js project POV seems to be a perennial issue. Folks like Michael have made efforts to improve this, but it doesn't fit into anyone's workflow enough to really stick. It reminds me of when you have a question at work, CC several people in, and no-one replies because they assume someone else was going to. :) (No judgment, BTW. This stuff is hard! And maybe there's a lot going on that I am unaware of.)

This may not be the place for such a discussion, but does/could the Node.js project have one individual on the inside to handle outreach/press/public representation? I've seen the ambassador program, which might well be intended to cover this(?), but I worry that spreading the role across multiple people could have a similar diluting effect.

[Trott]

Delivering news from the Node.js project POV seems to be a perennial issue.

What makes you say that? What's an example of a Node.js project POV that gets inadequate attention in media or social media or whatever?

[Trott]

This may not be the place for such a discussion, but does/could the Node.js project have one individual on the inside to handle outreach/press/public representation? I've seen the ambassador program, which might well be intended to cover this(?), but I worry that spreading the role across multiple people could have a similar diluting effect.

It seems like this is a role that is (or should) be handled by OpenJS Foundation staff. If someone asked me for the one individual to handle outreach/press/public representation, I'd point them at Foundation Executive Director @rginn. Her email is right there on the contact page: https://openjsf.org/contact

I wouldn't mind a line added to the Node.js README and/or website that points media people to the OpenJS contact page for media queries. Node.js is ill-equipped to handle such queries itself and it would seem to me to be a primary function of the Foundation.

[peterc]

To clarify, I meant "issue" in the sense of "matter" – not to insinuate there's any failure 😅

The topic of the Node project sharing its news and internal happenings has come up numerous times over the years. I therefore assume there are people internal to the project who see reasons to do this. Perhaps there isn't any problem at all. I certainly feel happy keeping up by monitoring the usual places, the foundation's YouTube channel, blog, PRs, etc. That said, I "don't know what I don't know," so if the project feels like there are things that should be getting more attention, I'm all ears!

[Trott]

The topic of the Node project sharing its news and internal happenings has come up numerous times over the years.

I certainly agree that it comes up over and over. I might have the opposite problem you do: I'm so on the inside and so close up on things (or at least I used to be), that I might assume everyone knows X when in fact it's just me and some other maintainers. I can't exclude that possibility, but I certainly don't see what the issue is. I'd love for somebody to provide an example. Perhaps I shouldn't have directed the question to you but instead asked more broadly.

[RedYetiDev]

is there any information that is really not being shared but is useful to know?