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BP Dev-Chat Agenda December 22, 2021
Hi!
Our development meeting will happen today (December 22 at 19:30 UTC) and of course in #BuddyPress. Here’s our agenda:
- 10.0.0-beta2 or 10.0.0 RC release date.
- 10.0.0 stable release tasks repartition.
If you have specific/additional points you need to discuss about, please share them into the comments area of this post.
👋
BP Dev-Chat Summary : December 15, 2021.
- See previously BP Dev Chat summary (December 8, 2021)
- In attendance: @hasanuzzamanshamim @dcavins @im4th
- Slack archive.
10.0.0-beta1 1st feedbacks
A theme related issue was posted into our support topic @dcavins gave some explanations of possible reasons for this issue and the reporter said he would ask the premium theme authors for support.
10.0.0 remaining tickets
- @vapvarun will soon post a patch about #7540.
- During the chat @im4th said he would work on #8088, #8589 and #8474. He fixed the 2 first and committed fixes about the third.
- About #8604 @dcavins agreed suggested changes were making sense. The patch still needs to be built.
10.0.0 stable release tasks repartition
@dcavins wrote a codex page about alternative registration workflows and volunteered to take in charge the credits list and part of the « Hello BuddyPress 10.0.0 » screen.
10.0.0 schedule
- 10.0.0-RC: TBD 👈
- 10.0.0 stable: January 5, 2022 🎯
Next Dev-Chat
It will happen next week on December 22 at 19:30 UTC in #BuddyPress.
BP Dev-Chat Agenda December 15, 2021
Hi!
Our development meeting will happen today (December 15 at 19:30 UTC) and of course in #BuddyPress. Here’s our agenda:
- 10.0.0-beta1 testing results.
- Decisions about keeping/bumping the 10.0.0 remaining tickets.
- 10.0.0 stable release tasks repartition.
If you have specific/additional points you need to discuss about, please share them into the comments area of this post.
👋
BuddyPress 10.0.0-beta1 is available for your tests!
Finally 😁
Happy Testing 🎮
BP Dev-Chat Summary : December 8, 2021.
- See previously BP Dev Chat summary (December 1st, 2021)
- In attendance: @dcavins @vapvarun @johnjamesjacoby @im4th
- Slack archive.
10.0.0 Progress
Updates about featured tickets
#8582 Add site membership requests
@dcavins fixed the multisite issues about the feature, @im4th confirmed the fixes made the feature works as expected on the WordPress multisite config. @dcavins decided to add complementary explanations about how the feature deals with multisite registration options. He committed the code yesterday and BuddyPress 10.0.0 is now offering a Site Membership Request feature 🙌. Congratulations to @dcavins 💪.
#8451 Extending no content activities with images and call of actions
@vapvarun brought some nice improvements about how we load activity types template part and also added some new layouts for “no-content” activities. @im4th still had to finish the Avatar Recycle UI so that users can reuse a previously uploaded avatar or permanently delete a previously uploaded avatar.
#8148 Extend WordPress Plugins screen to allow Admins to easily install features as a plugin
@johnjamesjacoby added the BP Beta Tester plugin to the BuddyPress WP.org user favorites so that we have a first BuddyPress Add-on into the new WP Admin “Add New” plugin screen. The ticket is now closed and we’ll soon be able to publish new add-ons like the BP Rewrites plugin to the WordPress.org Plugin directory. Here’s a preview of this new screen:
Other tickets needing attention
10.0.0 schedule
We’re adding the very final touches to the first 10.0.0 beta release… get ready for it!
- 10.0.0-beta1: in a few of hours 👈
- 10.0.0 stable: January 5, 2022 🎯
Next Dev-Chat
It will happen next week on December 15 at 19:30 UTC in #BuddyPress.
BP Dev-Chat Agenda December 8, 2021
Hi!
Our development meeting will happen today (December 8 at 19:30 UTC) and of course in #BuddyPress.
Let’s prepare the 10.0.0-beta1 release! We’ll look at our latest progress to decide whether to punt or keep the remaining tickets scheduled for the 10.0.0 milestone.
If you have specific/additional points you need to discuss about, please share them into the comments area of this post.
👋
BP Dev-Chat Summary : December 1st, 2021.
- See previously BP Dev Chat summary (November 17, 2021)
- In attendance: @dcavins @vapvarun @espellcaste @im4th
- Slack archive.
10.0.0 Progress
Updates about featured tickets
#8582 Add site membership requests
@im4th tested the patch @dcavins updated lately and found some issues when BuddyPress is network activated on a WordPress Multisite configuration. In such a configuration, the site membership request feature is only available when the WordPress registration setting is “Logged in users may register new sites” (1) or “Registration is disabled” (2).
- In the first case (1), the request membership form includes a checkbox to request a site at the same time, and once the form is submitted the user receives an email to activate their account instead of the awaiting moderation email.
- In the second case (2), once the request membership form is submitted, an empty registration page is displayed and the site membership request is not created.
@dcavins is working on fixes about these two issues to have the feature ready for the BuddyPress 10.0.0-beta1 release.
#8451 Extending no content activities with images and call of actions
Great progress were made about this feature:
- The BP Attachments API will include a new method to add file revisions. This is needed by the feature to keep an history of the uploaded profile photos so that generated activities always display the profile photo that was set when the activity was published.
- The BP Template hierarchy will be improved so that it’s possible to override the layout of the activity content based on its activity type.
- @im4th will try to add the needed adaptations to the Avatar Backbone views so that they includes a new tab to recycle or delete previously uploaded profile photos from history.
- @vapvarun will work on the generated activity layouts to differentiate them according to the (no-content) activity types.
Other tickets/GitHub PR needing attention
- @espellcaste couldn’t stay long during the chat but reminded us about the BP REST plugin Pull Requests needing a review.
- to ease BP Rewrites testing @im4th wants to tackle #8148 during the 10.0.0 development cycle.
- A first step has been made about making BuddyPress more friendly with themes supporting the WordPress Full Site Editing feature, see this commit message for a detailed explanation. You’ll find below a screenshot of the Activity directory displayed into the next WordPress 5.9 default theme: Twenty Twenty-Two.
Updated 10.0.0 schedule
We’ve updated the 10.0.0 schedule for the last time 😅. @dcavins alerted us about the comments on the Tavern’s post about our initial released date which was December 24, 2021. To avoid causing some stress to site administrators (and to the team ☺) during the christmas period, we’ve decided to postpone the release date to January 5, 2022. We also took this opportunity to give us one last week to add the final touches to the first 10.0.0 beta release.
- 10.0.0-beta1: December 10, 2021 👈
- 10.0.0 stable: January 5, 2022 🎯
Next Dev-Chat
It will happen next week on December 8 at 19:30 UTC in #BuddyPress.
BP Dev-Chat Agenda December 1, 2021
Hi!
Our development meeting will happen today (December 1st at 19:30 UTC) and of course in #BuddyPress.
Here’s our agenda:
If you have specific/additional points you need to discuss about, please share them into the comments area of this post.
- 10.0.0 updates about our progress on:
- 10.0.0-beta1 release.
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BP Dev-Chat Summary : November 17, 2021.
- See previously BP Dev Chat summary (November 3, 2021)
- In attendance: @dcavins @vapvarun @johnjamesjacoby @im4th
- Slack archive.
10.0.0 Progress
The first thing we’ve discussed about was the scheduled date for the first beta release of BuddyPress 10.0.0. @im4th shared his concern about the fact he would not be able to test/review the latest improvements brought to the site request membership feature #8582 by @dcavins as well as the “no-content” activities patch @vapvarun was about to add to the ticket (#8451) before November 20 (beta1 initial scheduled date). He requested to use 2 more weeks before releasing beta1. Although @vapvarun was in favor of only adding 1 week, @im4th argued he was prefering to delay by 2 weeks once instead of by 1 week twice. @dcavins also thinks a 2 weeks delay is good and should help us to fix some other tickets.
New 10.0.0 schedule
- 10.0.0-beta 1: ~ december 3, 2021 👈
- 10.0.0 stable: ~ december 24, 2021 🎄
Updates about featured tickets
- #8451 Extending no content activities with images and call to actions: @vapvarun announced he was about to submit a first patch about the feature.
- #8582 Add site membership requests: we think we should use a new action link instead of links into a new WP List Table column to open the modal. @im4th will try to build an inline-edit feature using the BP REST API and we’ll be able to replace the modal link with the inline-edit one if it’s ready before first beta. @dcavins will also try to avoid adding an upgrade routine to edit the existing
$wpdb->base_prefix . 'signups'table rows and use instead a new meta to differentiate site membership requests from signups. The last touch about the feature will be to update the list of BP Emails so that it includes the ones needed by the feature. - #8594 Legacy Widgets: next step before deprecation: @vapvarun shared his concern about it considering the number of downloads of the Classic Widget editor plugin. After checking the ticket’s patch and the plugin’s code, @im4th reassured @vapvarun telling him the legacy widgets would still be available for people using this plugin. He’ll do some more tests to be 100% sure about it.
Open floor
@im4th thinks we shouldn’t include more BP Blocks into BP Core and that we should start using standalone blocks and publish them into the WordPress.org Blocks directory (which is actually using the plugins directory). @dcavins thinks it’s an interesting idea. @vapvarun is not convinced (yet 😁) about it especially when considering these blocks are increasing the number of active plugins on sites. He thinks a Blocks collection plugin would be better. If you have an opinion about it, we’d be happy to read it as a comment of this post 😉.
Next Dev-Chat
It will happen on December 1st at 19:30 UTC in #BuddyPress. In the meantime we’d be happy to get your help about these tickets: please contribute to BuddyPress 🙏
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