Review semver-minor backports

[gibfahn]

I know it's a bit early, but it's probably worth starting to accumulate the list of PRs for which a backport to Node 6 has been requested (as the first one has been requested).

• Previous Issue: Potential Semver Minor Backports #188
• Command: branch-diff --reverse --filter-release --require-label=semver-minor --exclude-label=semver-major,meta,dont-land-on-v6.x,backport-requested-to-v6.x up/v6.x up/v8.x

Unsorted

• http: overridable keep-alive behavior of Agent #13005
• src: allow CLI args in env with NODE_OPTIONS #12677
• assert.fail() accept a single argument or two arguments #12293
• [1ee38eb874] - (SEMVER-MINOR) util: add %i and %f formatting specifiers ( Roman Reiss) #10308
• [75f4329e01] - (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: add randomFill and randomFillSync ( Evan Lucas) #10209
• [4fb27d43f0] - intl: Add more versions from ICU ( Steven R. Loomis) intl: Add more versions from ICU node#9266
• crypto: add sign/verify support for RSASSA-PSS #11705
• inspector: enable --inspect-brk in v6 #12615

Yes

Manual

[sam-github]

What about nodejs/node#12677 (comment) ?

[gibfahn]

What about nodejs/node#12677 (comment) ?

Yep, added.

This is a collaborative list, so if you want to add stuff just do it. These are just semver-minors we should look at, no consensus is necessary to add one to the list.

[refack]

Backported by mistake, so for your consideration: nodejs/node#14427

[srl295]

add more ICU versions - yes, this would be good

[MylesBorins]

There are a bunch of semver-minor ones that are labelled lts-watch

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3Alts-watch-v6.x+label%3Asemver-minor+is%3Aclosed

and a bunch that have backports already in

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen%20is%3Apr%20label%3Av6.x%20

[Fishrock123]

We (NodeSource) would like to have access to process.ppid in LTS branches - nodejs/node#16839

It requires a libuv upgrade, so we will have to see if that is feasible. If not, I imagine the backport of that particular feature would not be overly complex.

[cjihrig]

FWIW, the libuv 1.x release line should continue to be backport-able.

[MylesBorins]

@Fishrock123 which version of libuv? We updated v6.x and v8.x to 1.15.0 in the last minor

There is room for a minor on 6.x and 8.x in February if we want to do it... I would say this isn't likely to land on 4.x though

[Fishrock123]

From the PR:

depends on the libuv 1.16.0 update