Create aug-16.md

[hzoo]

Babel 7 Beta

• Should switch all the repos from 7.0 to master if not already (babel/babel and babel/babel-preset-env)
• Test repos

Team

• Added @bvaughn to the Website team, @Daniel15 as admin for website
• Added @nicolo-ribaudo to team last week

Updates

• Renamed repo: babel/babel.github.io to babel/website
• Renamed repo: babel/babili to babel/minify (and package from babili to babel-minify https://twitter.com/_vigneshh/status/897074585891479554
• Merged the React rewrite of the REPL (React rewrite of Babel REPL website#1297) but have the New Repl milestone to work on: React rewrite of Babel REPL website#1297
• babel-standalone is in the monorepo Move babel-standalone into main Babel repo babel#6029, Allow loading babel-standalone from CircleCI to enable easy testing of PRs website#1284 https://twitter.com/left_pad/status/896361066543947776 with support for npm/circle ci builds.
• Published @peey's post https://twitter.com/left_pad/status/896036669631102976
• Updates to Stages: Add numeric separator to stage 2 preset babel#6071 @rwaldron, Update Class Fields to Stage 3 and change default behavior babel#6076 @kedromelon Split export extensions into 2 babel#6080 @echo304
• Made a 6.26.0 release

Summer of Code

• https://twitter.com/left_pad/status/897470712277028864: @peey submitted a PR for decorators: Decorators 2 Transform [WIP] babel#6107

PRs to review

• Milestone PRs: https://github.com/babel/babel/milestone/9
• Revitalized the syntax error PR Syntax Error: add message with the plugin that should be enabled babylon#658
• Simpler import syntax output commonjs: simplify the output for a single default import babel#6039

[hzoo]

• decorators PR has ES6
  Should we compile helpers, or keep as es5?
• ideally would compile helpers separately so we can write es6
• typeof compiled twice
• what do we do now vs later?
• Logans: PR Lift single-expression helper restriction and use hoistable function declarations wherever possible in helpers babel#5706

[xtuc]

Awesome, sorry I had to left before the meeting.