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Enable GitHub Codespaces for Node.js

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github
Domain
cloud, infrastructure

Research direction

Start by reading the linked OpenJS Foundation issue 1009 and the discussion in this issue about TSC consensus. Determine the approval and billing steps required for the Node.js organisation, then verify that GitHub Codespaces billing is enabled for it.

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Description

Recently, the OpenJS Foundation pivoted, enabling Codespaces Billing on the Webpack organisation (https://github.com/openjs-foundation/cross-project-council/issues/1009). I'd like the same to be done on the Node.js organisation.

I can see clear benefits in productivity as we could access the large Codepsaces Runners and build Node.js on the cloud if needed. Also, it would bring benefits where collaborators are far from their development machines but could still contribute.

At least I'm already using it daily for the Website Team, but paying from my pocket.

I don't know if this needs TSC consensus. cc @nodejs/tsc

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
202
Forks
183
Avg merge
13d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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