New installs will default to Ember CLI builds in Production

[eviltrout (Robin Ward)]

@meglio

Could you also explain what it entails and why it matters — to those not familiar with the Ember ecosystem.

There’s more information here:

EmberCLI: Coming to a Discourse near you!

We’d like to migrate Discourse’s asset pipeline over to use EmberCLI. EmberCLI is the standard way to develop Ember applications and Discourse’s approach has long been a source of confusion for people approaching our project with an Ember.js background. Background Discourse has been around long enough that it pre-dates EmberCLI’s existence, and in fact using something like the Rails asset pipeline was considered a best practice at the time. Over the years we’ve tacked on more and more to our E…

The short version is: this is the officially supported way to develop Ember applications and should make it easier for people to contribute and for us to ugprade Ember in the future.