Promises Working Group, Call For Contributors #1
Description
The recent issues raised in nodejs/node#5020 nodejs/post-mortem#16 groundwater/nodejs-symposiums#5 and groundwater/nodejs-symposiums#6 have shown that we still have a lot of ground to cover in terms of how promises interact with NodeJS.
Currently discussion is a little disorganized, a lot of discussion is happening and a lot of discussion should still happen.
There are a lot of open issues that would be in scope like:
- How can debugging be made easier in Node for promise users.
- Post mortem debugging with promises.
- Promise cancellation and how APIs would interact with it when it lands.
- How async/await support would look like.
- How promise APIs would look like in core.
- Documentation of V8's implementation, what hooks it provides and how to work with it.
- How to make sure promises don't get in the way of callback users with core support.
- How/if to get AsyncWrap to work with promises.
- General group to deal with promise related bugs.
These issues all need to be discussed at depth. We need to document them, create a knowledge base and seek good solutions. The WG would operate under the TSC.
I'd love to see people step up and participate. In particular I'd love to see the following people in the WG. I'm looking for more community involvement so please feel free to suggest yourself for the WG: