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+# 03/05/2026 ESLint TSC Meeting Transcript
+
+**nzakas:** Howdy!
+
+**fasttime:** Hi 👋
+
+**nzakas:** Looks like it'll just be us today.
+
+**nzakas:** Let me pull up the notes from last time.
+
+**fasttime:** Yes, get better soon @mdjermanovic
+ * ❤️ @nzakas
+
+**nzakas:** The only followup from last time was me setting up a way to publish previous version in `eslint/rewrite`, which I did. https://github.com/eslint/rewrite/pull/393
+
+**nzakas:** We should also talk a bit about this during this meeting.
+ * 👍 @fasttime
+
+**nzakas:** Let's start with statuses. That's the one specific thing I was working on aside from reviewing issues and PRs.
+
+**fasttime:** I worked on the RFC for the `--base-path` option, apart from that also just reviewing issues and PRs
+
+**nzakas:** Availability for the next two weeks: I should be back to normal hours of 0.5-1 hour each weekday now that I'm back home and no one's in the hospital. 😅
+
+**fasttime:** I should be available 7-9 hours per week the next couple of weeks
+
+**nzakas:** RFC Duty:
+This week - @nzakas 
+March 9 - @fasttime 
+March 16 - @mdjermanovic
+ * 👍 @fasttime
+
+**nzakas:** We don't have anything flagged, so let's discuss updating `@eslint/config-array`.
+
+**nzakas:** (Previously posted PR)
+
+**nzakas:** Looking over the notes, there was concern that we can't release previous major versions...but we're still at 0.23.2, so I'm feeling a bit lost.
+
+**fasttime:** It looks like ESLint v9.39.3 was using config-array v0.21.1: https://github.com/eslint/eslint/blob/v9.39.3/package.json#L111
+
+**fasttime:** So if we want to patch it, we should release v0.21.2 I guess.
+
+**fasttime:** The only change from v0.21.1 would be the minimatch update.
+
+**nzakas:** Ah and because it's a zero major version it doesn't automatically pick up minor increments. Got it.
+
+**fasttime:** Yes 🙂
+
+**nzakas:** We should really bump to v1.x soon. 🙂
+ * 👍 @fasttime
+
+**fasttime:** But patch updates should be picked automatically. Nevertheless we could release a patch for ESLint v9 as well.
+
+**nzakas:** Okay, so in v0.23.0 we switched from minimatch 3.x to 10.x.
+
+**nzakas:** I wonder if ESLint v9 will still work with v0.23.x?
+
+**fasttime:** I don't know, haven't tested that
+
+**nzakas:** Although, we'd end up downloading two versions of minimatch in that case because ESLint itself also relies on it.
+
+**nzakas:** And adding a new version could introduce some incompatibilities, so probably best not to do that.
+
+**nzakas:** So we'd want `@eslint/config-array@0.21.2` with the upgraded minimatch.
+
+**fasttime:** Yeah, we wanted to just patch minimatch because of the security vulnerability.
+
+**nzakas:** Right.
+
+**nzakas:** Okay, I can try doing that and if it works then we can do a patch release of ESLint v9.x tomorrow.
+
+**fasttime:** Thanks!
+ * 👍 @nzakas
+
+**fasttime:** So we'd need a PR for config-array maintenance and one for ESLint v9, plus merging the PR to create maintenance releases.
+
+**fasttime:** I'm not sure about `@eslint/eslintrc`
+
+**nzakas:** right
+
+**nzakas:** wrt to keeping branches -- I'd say we keep the branch around until v9.x is EOL, just in case we need another patch.
+ * 👍 @fasttime
+
+**fasttime:** Sounds good.
+
+**nzakas:** Do you want to approve it and then I can merge it?
+ * 👍 @fasttime
+
+**fasttime:** `@eslint/eslintrc` for v9 still uses a version of minimatch that is flagged by security scanners: https://github.com/eslint/eslintrc/blob/v3.3.1/package.json#L78
+
+**fasttime:** But we could just bump the `@eslint/eslintrc` dependency in ESLint v9 to the latest version I think.
+ * 👍 @nzakas
+
+**fasttime:** Yes, I will do after the meeting.
+ * 👍 @nzakas
+
+**nzakas:** Okay, anything else to discuss?
+
+**fasttime:** Nothing in particular from my side
+
+**nzakas:** Okay then let's talk contributor pool:
+https://github.com/eslint/tsc-meetings/blob/main/notes/2026/2026-03-01-contributor-pool.md
+
+**nzakas:** I'm thinking:
+sethamus $200, the others $100 each
+ * 👍 @fasttime
+
+**fasttime:** I was to suggest the same 😄
+
+**nzakas:** Then we are agreed! I'll let them know.
+
+**nzakas:** Now let's discuss the release tomorrow.
+
+**fasttime:** I can do it
+
+**nzakas:** Thanks!
+
+**fasttime:** Many packages to release this time
+
+**fasttime:** `eslint`, `eslint-config-eslint`, `@eslint/eslintrc`, plus the maintenance releases of `eslint` and `@eslint/config-array`
+
+**nzakas:** Yup
+
+**nzakas:** Exciting day! 😁
+
+**fasttime:** Oh `eslint/js` too. I'll double-check check tomorrow to make sure we don't miss something
+
+**fasttime:** Okay, I'm planning to do the release around the time of today's meeting. Do you think you can have the PRs ready by that time?
+
+**nzakas:** The only one I was planning on was the `@eslint/config-array` patch release. Which others are you referring to?
+
+**fasttime:** Ah, okay. Then I will prepare the PRs in ESLint targeting the v9.x-dev branch with the updated dependencies.
+ * 🙏 @nzakas
+
+**nzakas:** I figured since there will be multiple updates it's best to keep it all in one place
+
+**fasttime:** Yes, that makes sense 🙂
+
+**nzakas:** Okay, I think that's all for today. Thanks (and thanks @sam3k_ for the notes)!
+
+**fasttime:** Thanks! 👋