# DoneJS Contributors Meeting – 2017-09-08 **URL:** \ **Category:** DoneJS\ **Created:** [September 1, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-contributors-meeting-2017-09-08/715 "2017-09-01T17:31:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chasen](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/chasen/32/402_2.png) [@chasen](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/chasen)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-contributors-meeting-2017-09-08/715/1 "2017-09-01T17:31:31Z")
Please add topics for discussion (and your status if you’re a contributor). **Epics:** - [bit-docs alpha](https://github.com/bit-docs/bit-docs/issues/35) — `29 / 135` - [CanJS 3.10.1](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3465) — `48 / 48` 🔥🎊💃 - [CanJS 3.10.2](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3542) — `1 / 4` ↗️ - [CanJS 3.11.0](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3495) — `10 / 64` ↗️ - [HTTP/2 & Incremental Rendering Evangelism](https://github.com/donejs/donejs/issues/1007) — `22 / 51` - [Proposal: Streamable apps](https://github.com/donejs/donejs/issues/834) — `219 / 261` - [React View-Model](https://github.com/canjs/react-view-models/issues/13) — `39 / 59` - [Revisit can-connect](https://github.com/canjs/can-connect/issues/288) — `15 / 25` - [Slim - Phase 2](https://github.com/stealjs/steal-tools/issues/720) — `29 / 34` - [2017-09 Developer Relations](https://github.com/donejs/developer-relations/issues/66) — `36 / 109` ↗️ **Live Stream:** ---
**Author:** ![chasen](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/chasen/32/402_2.png) [@chasen](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/chasen)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-contributors-meeting-2017-09-08/715/2 "2017-09-08T14:30:55Z")
**Last week:** - Published [August 2017 DoneJS Community Update](https://www.bitovi.com/blog/august-2017-donejs-community-update) - Released [DocumentJS 0.5.1](https://github.com/bitovi/documentjs/releases/tag/v0.5.1) with a fix for using it globally - Set up a [new event for DoneJS LA](https://www.meetup.com/DoneJS-LA/events/243126081/) - Completed our switch over to https on the forums - Updated & merged [Fix a bunch of broken or poorly-formatted demos](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/pull/3491#issuecomment-326714531) - Added [docs for StealJS’s plugins config](https://stealjs.com/docs/StealJS.configuration.html#plugins) - Worked on my CSS-Tricks and React articles - Started [prepping for the community survey](https://github.com/donejs/developer-relations/issues/63) **Next week:** my focus will be on launching a landing page for the community survey **Demos:** community update blog post, DocumentJS update, DoneJS LA, plugins docs ---
**Author:** ![leoj3n](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/leoj3n/32/174_2.png) [@leoj3n](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/leoj3n)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-contributors-meeting-2017-09-08/715/3 "2017-09-08T15:15:34Z")
Last Week: - [Mission Critical Sprint Ideas](https://github.com/bit-docs/bit-docs/issues/47) - Worked through some branches and PRs. - (on the side) [Art Theme mockup](https://github.com/stealjs/stealjs/issues/71) - StealJS website concept. - Threw up some old code from an old idea. Next Week: - Merge merge merge. All the branches. ---
**Author:** ![justinbmeyer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/justinbmeyer/32/179_2.png) [@justinbmeyer](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/justinbmeyer)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-contributors-meeting-2017-09-08/715/4 "2017-09-08T15:25:19Z")
This Week: - Started [Stable and Innovative Code Bases](https://www.bitovi.com/blog/stable-and-innovative-code-priorities-and-goals) series of articles - DoneJS [LA](https://www.meetup.com/DoneJS-LA/events/243126081/), [Chicago](https://www.meetup.com/DoneJS-Chicago/events/242563989/), [Silicon Valley](https://www.meetup.com/DoneJS-Silicon-Valley/events/243125502/), and [Boston](https://www.meetup.com/DoneJS-Boston/events/243126089/) events scheduled Next Week: - Finishing blog series - Helping get survey underway - make a streams training video Demos: - [How to Manage Code Across Many Independent Repositories](https://www.bitovi.com/blog/stable-and-innovative-independent-repositories) Topics: - [{{#each items item=value}}](https://github.com/canjs/can-stache/issues/300) - [What should we name `-4u`?](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3426) ---
**Author:** ![phillipskevin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/phillipskevin/32/102_2.png) [@phillipskevin](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/phillipskevin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-contributors-meeting-2017-09-08/715/5 "2017-09-08T15:26:52Z")
**Last Week:** - [CanJS 3.10.1](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/releases/tag/v3.10.1) - new dev warnings and critical `can-view-live` fix - [CanJS 3.10.2](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3542) - critical fix for getters using `lastSetVal` **Next Week:** - [3.11.0](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3495) - Writing up proposals for potential CanJS features **Demo:** - New dev warnings ---
**Author:** ![bgando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bgando](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/bgando)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-contributors-meeting-2017-09-08/715/6 "2017-09-08T16:04:13Z")
- Helped with some prep for the community survey - Helped with some error messages - Created a script to generate release notes - Fixed some broken builds and broken tests ---
**Author:** ![pYr0x](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/pyr0x/32/95_2.png) [@pYr0x](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/pYr0x)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-contributors-meeting-2017-09-08/715/7 "2017-09-08T17:18:01Z")
## this week - making can-ejs work again with steal 1.x ([https://github.com/canjs/can-ejs/pull/43](https://github.com/canjs/can-ejs/pull/43)) you now can use can-ejs as a steal plugin the same way as steal-stache. building your app with ejs and steal-tools work too. ## next week - integrate steal-serviceworker into steal-tools - some code improvements on steal-bundler ---
**Author:** ![Sinjhin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/sinjhin/32/222_2.png) [@Sinjhin](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/Sinjhin)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-contributors-meeting-2017-09-08/715/8 "2017-09-08T17:31:49Z")
## This Week - Self-referential templates `{{>*self}}` - Documented `on:input:value:to` for the new binding syntax ## Next Week - Finish implementing `{{#with first=person.first last=person.last}} syntax - [CanJS 3.11 Issues](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3495) ---
**Author:** ![chasen](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/chasen/32/402_2.png) [@chasen](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/chasen)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/donejs-contributors-meeting-2017-09-08/715/9 "2017-09-08T19:16:06Z")
**Attendees:** @bmomberger-bitovi @chasen @justinbmeyer @phillipskevin @pYr0x @Sinjhin **Demos:** - [{{\>\*self}} referential templates in can-stache 3.7](https://github.com/canjs/can-stache/releases/tag/v3.7.0) - [How to Manage Code Across Many Independent Repositories](https://www.bitovi.com/blog/stable-and-innovative-independent-repositories) - [The can package](https://canjs.com/doc/api.html#ThecanPackage) with all the package versions for a single release of `can` - [CanJS 3.10.1](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/releases/tag/v3.10.1) added a bunch of new warnings (props to Bianca & Brad!) - [Removed pre-release dependencies](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3500) from a bunch of our packages - [can-view-model](https://canjs.com/doc/can-view-model.html) now has docs for everything you can pass to it - `{{#eq}}` is now documented (it’s the same as [{{#is}}](https://canjs.com/doc/can-stache.helpers.is.html)) - [Research on avoiding cyclic dependencies](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3497#issuecomment-327966095) - [can-ejs 3.1.6](https://github.com/canjs/can-ejs/releases/tag/v3.1.6) fixes compatibility with StealJS **Topics:** [Deprecate {{#each x as KEY}} in favor of {{#each x item=value num=index}}](https://github.com/canjs/can-stache/issues/300): - We had a _long_ conversation about different ideas for making scope explicit - Justin’s going to write a proposal for his ideas We tabled [What should we name -4u?](https://github.com/canjs/canjs/issues/3426) for another meeting.