– By Tom Dale
I'm very happy to share with you our plan to scale Ember's day-to-day decision-making and coordination—something we're calling Subteams. We mentioned some of this in this year's EmberConf keynote, and wanted to expand on the specific details.
Ember.js was once only a view layer for rendering templates in the
browser, but has grown to become a complete SDK for the web. With one
npm install, you get everything you need to create a modern web
application.
Making things simple for developers often means a lot of coordination and decision-making behind the scenes. As the number of pieces making up Ember has grown—encompassing not only Ember.js but Ember CLI, Ember Data, the Ember Inspector, documentation, and more—we want to ensure that the Core Team does not become a bottleneck for progress.
At the same time, we believe that having a strong vision that everyone can rally behind is critical to building software that feels cohesive. So how do we ensure that everyone is pulling their cart in the same direction, without losing momentum?
We're taking a page from Rust's playbook and adopting the idea of Subteams. While we've often had informal teams tackle specific tasks, this change formalizes that process and officially recognizes the hard work of these contributors.
The Core Team serves as the leadership for the Ember project as a whole. Its responsibilities include:
Each subteam is led by a Core Team liaison. This member is responsible for keeping the Core Team apprised of progress on important initiatives, identifying potential areas of concern early, and escalating cross-cutting issues when needed.
Slack channel: #dev-ember-cli
Discourse category: Ember CLI
Core Team Liaisons: Stefan Penner & Robert Jackson
Members:
Slack channel: #dev-ember-data
Discourse category: Ember
Data
Core Team Liaison: Igor Terzic
Members:
Slack channel: #-learning
Discourse category: Learning
While the Ember CLI and Ember Data subteams should be self-explanatory, this one is the newest and may require some explanation.
We intentionally did not call this subteam Documentation, because documentation is only one part of how new users learn to use Ember. People start learning the second they land on the website homepage, or when they see a presentation at their local user group.
We want to make holistic learning a central part of Ember. In addition to good guides and API documentation, this means thinking about how members of the community interact, how they get help, and how we introduce them to new features added via the RFC process.
The Learning Subteam is responsible for the website, the guides, the API docs and making sure the Core Team is aware of common pitfalls people hit, like confusing error messages or APIs. We will take this information and feed it back into the framework itself.
The best documentation is the documentation you never have to write. By reducing complexity, making errors clearer, and smoothing the learning curve, we can help Ember reach an entirely new audience.
Core Team Liaison: Leah Silber
Members:
You can find information on the subteams and their members at http://emberjs.com/team/. We will keep this page up-to-date as people come and go.
A big thank you to the members of these teams, who donate their time and energy to make the web a better place. If you're interested in helping, please reach out to one of the above team members for the best way to get started.
We are excited at the pace at which Ember has grown, and we think it uniquely solves the challenge of building modern web applications in a way that doesn't push all of the complexity to the app developer. We could not build as ambitiously without the dedication of these people. Please join me in welcoming the new subteams, and in thanking for them all of their hard work!
Many thanks to the Rust Core Team and particularly Aaron Turon's Governance RFC, and subteam announcement, from which parts of this post are adapted.
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