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title: Open RFC Meeting (npm)

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#### Meeting from: July 20th, 2022

# Open RFC Meeting (npm)

### Attendees
- Darcy Clarke (@darcyclarke)
- Gar (@wraithgar)
- Jon Jensen (@jenseng)
- Owen Buckley (@thescientist)
- David Zearing (@dzearing)
- Luke Karrys @lukekarrys)

### Agenda

1. **Housekeeping**
	1. Introduction(s)
	1. Code of Conduct Acknowledgement
	1. Outline Intentions & Desired Outcomes
	1. Announcements
1. **PR**: [#595 Propose backwards-compatible improvements to compression](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/595) - @EvanHahn
1. **PR**: [#593 Only Registry Tarballs](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/593) - @thescientist13
1. **PR**: [#23 Add Singleton Packages RFC.](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/23) - @usergenic

#### To Ratify
- **PR**: [#591 RFC: Registry-scoped keyfile / certfile credential options](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/591) - `@jenseng`
- **PR**: [#564 RFC: Dependency Selector Syntax &amp; &#x60;npm query&#x60;](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/564) - `@darcyclarke`
- **Issue**: [#438 [RRFC] Add libc fields to select optionalDependencies should be installed or skipped](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/issues/438) - `@Brooooooklyn`

### Notes

#### **PR**: [#595 Propose backwards-compatible improvements to compression](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/595) - @EvanHahn
- No Update

#### **PR**: [#593 Only Registry Tarballs](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/593) - @thescientist13
- @thescientist123
  - started to play with `npm query` 
  - wss looking at what query would match the right sey
- @darcyclarke
  - `npm query ":root > *:not(:type(git))"` 
- @wraithgar
  - `npm query`'s `:not` should be able to handle most usecases for negation
  - community should be able to self-serve in most cases
  - we'll consider priveledging queries on a case-by-case basis

#### **PR**: [#23 Add Singleton Packages RFC](https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/23) - @usergenic
- [npm-audit-resolver](https://github.com/naugtur/npm-audit-resolver) might be leveraged
- an interactive resolve mode for `npm audit fix`
- writeup on peer painpoints here https://hackmd.io/@dzearing/BJifNnpsq