🚀 Merges and goals

[brianmhunt]

Phase 1 - merges

• 1360 gulp knockout#1868 - Gulp
• Removing jQuery HTML parsing by default is breaking knockout#1880 - 1880 template html parser
• Add contributor agreement for contributors knockout#1833 - Add contributor agreement for contributors
• Implement a jscs/eslint code linter + strategy knockout#1820 - Implement a jscs/eslint code linter + strategy
• Add hook for ko.onBindingError knockout#1628 - Add hook for ko.onBindingError
• Stateful binding handlers/constructors knockout#1602 - Stateful binding handlers

Phase 2 - equivalency

• Update export mechanism (to support a switch from Closure Compiler to UglifyJS) knockout#1369 (Add and expose other virtualElement functions knockout#1691) - Update export mechanism (to support a switch from Closure Compiler to UglifyJS)
• Build mechanism (rollup)
• importification + tests for
  • tko.utils
  • tko.observable
  • tko.computed
  • tko.provider
  • tko.bind
  • tko.binding.core
  • tko.binding.template
  • tko.binding.if
  • tko.filter.punches
  • tko.components
• Compile the above to make a working version of tko

Phase 3 - Toolset and Additions

• The TKO Policy knockout/tko-policy#1
• Testing with Jasmine, Mocha, others
• Document needed polyfills
• New homepage website knockout#1827 Generated documentation/website
• Plugin architecture knockout#1589 Plugin architecture
• Incorporate key plugins
  • FastForeach
  • if/else
    • <!-- else --> inside conditional bindings
    • expose conditionals for successive bindings
    • else + elseif binding
  • postprocess binding
  • Knockout Secure Binding
  • Punches
    • filters
    • interpolation
    • namespacing
  • BindingHandler
    • .makeBindingHandler(fn)
    • Promise/resolution of valueAccessor
  • Extender / Promises (cast-Read/Write; thenable; resolveOnRead/Write; .when/.next/…)
  • Postbox
  • ES6 Map/WeakMap