2022-03-03.md

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GraphQL WG – January 2022

The GraphQL Working Group meets monthly to discuss proposed additions to the GraphQL Specification and other relevant topics to core GraphQL projects. This is an open meeting in which anyone in the GraphQL community may attend.

• Date & Time: March 3rd 2022 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
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  • Please Note: The date or time may change. Please check this agenda the week of the meeting to confirm. While we try to keep all calendars accurate, this agenda document is the source of truth.
• Video Conference Link: https://zoom.us/j/593263740
  • Password: graphqlwg
• Live Notes: Google Doc

Attendees

Name	GitHub	Organization	Location
Lee Byron	@leebyron	GraphQL Foundation	San Francisco, CA, US
Michael Staib	@michaelstaib	ChilliCream	Zurich, CH
Alex Reilly	@twof	Yelp	San Francisco, CA, US
Adron Hall	@adron	Amazon	Seattle, WA, US
Rob Richard	@robrichard	1stDibs	New York, NY, US
Roman Ivantsov	@rivantsov	Microsoft	Redmond, WA, US
Yaacov Rydzinski	@yaacovCR	Individual	Neve Daniel, IL
Matt Mahoney	@mjmahone	Meta (Facebook)	New York, NY, US
Jordan Eldredge	@captbaritone	Meta (Facebook)	San Francisco, CA, US
Hugh Willson	@hwillson	Apollo	Ottawa, ON, CA
Saihajpreet Singh	@saihaj	The Guild	Ottawa, ON, CA
Morris Matsa	@mmatsa	IBM	Boston, US
Doc Jones	@doc-jones	Postman	Raleigh, NC, US
Uri Goldshtein	@urigo	The Guild	Tel Aviv, IL
Anthony Miller	@anthonymdev	Apollo	Las Vegas, NV, US
Calvin Cestari	@calvincestari	Apollo	Vancouver, BC, CA
Benjie Gillam ✏️	@benjie	Graphile	Chandler's Ford, UK

Agenda

1. Agree to Membership Agreement, Participation & Contribution Guidelines and Code of Conduct (1m, Lee)
   • Specification Membership Agreement
   • Participation Guidelines
   • Contribution Guide
   • Code of Conduct
2. Introduction of attendees (5m, Lee)
3. Determine volunteers for note taking (1m, Lee)
4. Review agenda (2m, Lee)
5. Review previous meeting's action items (5m, Lee)
   • Ready for review
   • All open action items (by last update)
   • All open action items (by meeting)
6. Client Controlled Nullability discussion (45m, Alex Reilly)
   • Impementation
   • Spec
   • The goal of this discussion is to reach consensus on each of the following items. This will be a structured discussion where we will go through each item, identify any of the options that would be a hard blocker for the participants' respective use cases, and then vote on the remaining options. The goal is not to identify all possible options, or the perfect option, but the one the works the most for the most people. Development will proceed in the above-linked experimental implementation using the decisions made during this discussion.
     • List Syntax Discussion
     • Null Propagation Discussion
     • Nullable Designator Discussion
     • Error Handling Discussion
   • We will briefly go over the proposal and the options during the discussion, but it is suggested that you read the spec and the discussion threads prior to attendence to help the discussion go more smoothly.
7. Defer & stream discussion (30m, Rob Richard)
   • Non-nullable field errors in defer/stream payloads
   • Return arrays from stream payloads
   • Validation of label arguments
8. GraphiQL Lead Maintainer(s) Wanted (10 Minutes, Matt Mahoney)
   • Current lead @acao wants to ramp up 2 or more maintainers to keep GraphiQL's momentum
   • There is an existing roadmap of work for people to pick up
   • Would be healthier for the project to have many owners, whereas now most work runs through @acao