Contributing to Babel
I think we should consider contributing to babel in some way, considering how important they are in our current FE stack.
Some ideas I had for GitLab to contribute back:
- Sponsor the project (https://opencollective.com/babel) (Easiest but less hands on)
- Devote time (Maybe an hour a month) for a person in each time to contribute to Babel (PRs, triage issues..etc)
It would be nice to also have this for the other main OSS we rely on, at least FE side (Webpack, Vue) but Babel seems to be the most under appreciated out of the three (Least amount of funding, AFAIK nobody is doing Babel fulltime..etc).
In case you were not aware, Babel is also starting to work with TC39 (JavaScript standards committee) to use Babel as a way to gauge interest in the different stage proposals. Contributing to Babel => Helping TC39 => Better JavaScript => Happy Developers