# Nushell core team meeting 2025-09-24

## Attendees

- Darren
- Piet
- Rose
- Michael
- Bahex
- Stefan

## Agenda

- [x] Revisit Focus Groups
- [x] Deprecate `each --keep-empty` flag and make `each` keep `null` values
`each {..} | compact` can be used to discard null values in the output explicitly
- [x] Deprecate `each while`.
`each {..} | take while {..}` covers that use case and is more flexible.
- [x] More infos on experimental options [#16142](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/16142)
- [x] Should do a release of nu-ansi-term within the next week-ish

Issues closed: 209/500
PRs without `notes:ready`: 7

## Next week
- [ ] Follow-up on focus area discussion
- [ ] `each --stream`

## Discussed Topics

### Focus periods

* Rose: Fusion of a "individual core team member" approach (kind of like what Stefan has suggested previously) and a "goals" based approach
* Piet: "Firestarter" ideas
* lay out what an implementation would look like for something, and would make it easier for contributors to poteintially jump in
* Release cycle is a good length of time for a focus period
* Go through relevant area label ahead of time and mark issues with "help wanted"
* Then we can link this in the announcement post
* "Focus area" for the next release
* **Goal: Make next release cycle a focus area**

### Each topics

- Good to deprecate `--keep-empty`
- Good to deprecate `each while`

### nu-ansi-term

- Piet wanted to review it std/alloc PR before the release
- Generally agreed that we should land that std PR if we can and it shouldn't break things