Core Team Meeting Minutes - 2013/12/20

Dec 22, 2013 – By Trek Glowacki

Although most of our collaboration takes place on Github, IRC (#emberjs on freenode.net), and our Discourse site the Ember.js Core Team meets privately every Friday at 2pm EST/11am PST through Google Hangout for a weekly discussion of all things Ember.

If you have a topic you'd like to see covered, contact your favorite core team member and let them know!

Attendees

@krisselden, @machty, @stefanpenner, @tomdale, @trek, @wagenet, @wycats

Topics

Build Tools

@wycats has been communicating with @jo_liss about using broccoli as the basis for a build tools package.

Ember Data

Ember data is now less of an ORM and more of a pluggable framework for assembling your own data communication layer for Ember.js applications (with some nice defaults for people's whose APIs follow common patterns). However, the interface – especially on the "normal form" of return values – isn't well documented so people aren't able to easily jump in, try it, and offer feedback.

Resolutions:

@trek will start working on docs.
@tomdale, @wycats will publish an ember data update blog post.

Query Params

Some debate about the correct location for defining and handling query parameters (controller vs route).

Resolutions:

a smaller group will handle that discussion

Pods

During the face-to-face we floated the idea of organizing an application's files in a "pod" structure. Feedback has been positive, but we want to get more real world stories about the pros and cons of this structure.

Resolutions:

@trek will reach out to people said they've built in this style.