Status Update March 2020

Developer Tooling

• Automated publication of GitHub releases and tagging of PRs.
• Bot to automatically invite contributors to the org
• Lazy builds for minified code
• Ability to build just the core runtime (gulp [build|dist] --core_runtime_only)
• Module / no-module support for compilation toolchain
• New dev server with testable TS-based transforms (gulp serve --new_server)

Testing Improvements

• Network logging for E2E tests
• JSDoc based access control checks for source code
• Heartbeats for Sauce Labs runs
• WIP: Performance tests as part of CI

Releases

• New release channels: Stable, Beta, Experimental, LTS, Nightly
• LTS channel
• Versioning subscriber for releases
• Opt-in cookie for arbitrary RTVs
• Interactive release calendar
• WIP: Deprecation of old RTVs
• WIP: Nightly channel
• WIP: Automatically updated calendar for release tracking