Member of the Node.js Build Working Group
Escrito por: Ulises Gascón
Nov 04, 2022 — 3 min readThe Node.js Build Working Group manages the infrastructure supporting continuous integration (CI), releases, benchmarks, and web hosting for nodejs.org and other Node.js properties. The mission is to provide robust infrastructure to support the Node.js Project and libuv, focusing on correctness, speed, and compatibility to enhance software quality and ensure smooth delivery of binaries and source code to end-users.
My Participation
- Joined in Nov '22 to support MacOS machines in testing environments.
- Added Orka machines to improve MacOS availability in testing.
- Maintain Ansible scripts for macOS.
- Maintain GitHub Actions pipelines.
- Fixed, redeployed, and re-ansibled Orka machines after a host upgrade.
- Patched machines to unblock collaborators and releases for issues such as hard disk limits, sporadic downtimes, and VM recovery.
- Recovered all MacStadium machines.
- Led initiatives to drop MacOS 10.x support and visualize machine status in Grafana (see POC).
- Supported the Performance Team by fixing flaky tests.
- Participated in setting build requirements for Node.js 20.
- Introduced Terraform to manage Cloudflare infrastructure.
- Led the integration of MacOS 12.x and 13.x in our infrastructure and redesigned VMs for CI and releases.
- Reviewed PRs and triaged issues related to the build team.
- Published a GitHub Action to monitor Jenkins; Jenkins-alert repository was transferred to Node.js Org.
- Joined the Jenkins admins group in April '23.
- Decommissioned MacOS 14.x machines.
- Led the transition to notarytool for signing MacOS binaries.
- Automated Mailgun aliases and domains for the build team.
- Granted access to infrastructure and release resources in Jul '23 for resource management.
- Provided technical support for migrating Node.js website infrastructure from Cloudflare to Vercel (details, historical context).
- Recovered all Windows machines post-Jenkins upgrade.
- Onboarded the Linux Foundation IT & Ops team to assist with the Node.js project and share responsibilities with the Node.js Build WG.
- Contributed to discussions and implementation of the new binary distribution long-term solution (more details).
- Led and built a project to monitor Node.js binaries widely used by the community (e.g., NVM, GitHub Actions, installers).
- Built a system to monitor the R2 migration for binaries.
- Actively participating in multiple initiatives, including pull requests, commits, and issues.
- Defined MacOS infrastructure strategy for 2024 and beyond (details).
- Updated the notarization process to support MacOS tarballs (more details).
- Led the transition to ephemeral machines and implemented Packer for MacOS infrastructure (details).
The WG Impact
- Quick Start for New Sovereign Tech Fund Activities to Strengthen JavaScript
- How Node.js is tested across various operating systems and architectures
Last meeting
Meetings that I leaded
- 2024-10-30 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2024-10-09 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2024-09-18 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2024-08-27 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2024-06-04 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2024-05-15 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2024-04-23 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2024-01-30 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2024-01-10 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2023-11-29 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2023-09-26 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2023-07-04 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2023-05-23 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2023-04-11 Meeting notes, agenda and video
Meetings that I participated
- 2023-11-29 Meeting notes, agenda and video
- 2022-12-06 Meeting notes, agenda and video