Andy Peatling
Boone B. Gorges
Paul Gibbs
John James Jacoby
Tammie Lister
Andrew Nacin
1.7 scope
After today’s dev chat, the agreed scope of BuddyPress 1.7 looks like:
- Theme compatibility – making BuddyPress work on every theme – #3741
- Admin UI for Groups management – #4414
- Finish the Group Forum integration with bbPress 2 – #3598
- Improve DB performance when querying users – #4060
Those are the big things, but of course everything else in the 1.7 milestone on Trac is fair game.
We’ll have a separate post up soon about our theme compatibility plans, and how you can shape the future of BuddyPress themes — we’re particularly keen on what people think we should keep and what we might want to change. This will initially involve discussion and then wireframing and UI work; it’s going to be very exciting to work on. We’d love for you to help us build this.
We also discussed problems around distribution and ease of installation of internationalised versions of BuddyPress (the translations) which many non-English language sites use. This is a big focus area for the team, and we’ve got immediate plans to start to improvements over the next couple of weeks. I’ll be writing another post soon about this soon with much more detail.
We’re really keen to get more people involved with contributing to BuddyPress. Whether you’re a developer, or a designer, if it’s your first bug fix or enhancement, or if you’re an existing contributor looking to raise your game, the core team is very happy to talk to anyone interested and find an interesting task for them to work with us on for BuddyPress 1.7. If this sounds like fun, get in touch with us via this website or IRC, BuddyPress.org, or Trac.
Let’s get this party started!
Ian, 
Selu VEga 10:06 pm on August 15, 2012 Permalink |
I would like to contribute with translations and design area if you need some help.
Im re really excited to be free at last theming!
karmatosed 10:07 pm on August 15, 2012 Permalink |
This is going to be a cracking release I think and a great chance for not just developers to get onboard with the UI stuff. Really looking forward to it
mercime 2:56 am on August 16, 2012 Permalink |
BP 1.7 is going to be a fun release
Not to box you in with the schedule, but is BP 1.7 slated around the same time WP 3.5 comes out – Dec. 5, 2012 – or earlier?
Paul Gibbs 6:16 am on August 16, 2012 Permalink |
I don’t think so. We’d need to be ready for testing at the start of November, and that seems unrealistic. But the more contributions we get…
Roger Coathup 10:57 am on August 16, 2012 Permalink |
re: theme compatibility — suggest, it’s important that end users can just hit the upgrade button 1.6->1.7, and not have to change any settings, etc.
There are clients out there with BP based sites who are not developers — they’ve had their sites built for them, and should be able to click a point release upgrade without having to re-hire a developer / re-configure their systems.
If there’s a better way of doing things going forward, then great — let’s encourage devs to follow that approach, but let’s also make sure it doesn’t break / remove the old way / force settings to be changed for a site to stick with its status quo (leastways, not in a point release).
WP makes a good job of doing this.
beta 11:02 am on August 16, 2012 Permalink |
where is andy? all the blog posts here and at buddypress blog are authored by either you, BBG, or JJJ! is he off the project?
Paul Gibbs 11:13 am on August 16, 2012 Permalink |
Andy Peatling isn’t currently contributing to BP, though is still very supportive of the project. I met him at WordCamp San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, and he’s a very nice guy.
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Marc Falk 10:39 pm on August 16, 2012 Permalink |
I’d be willing to contribute in terms of design, html, and css. Feel free to e-mail me if help is still needed.
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ubernaut 1:25 am on August 17, 2012 Permalink |
happy to pitch in if i can help out my area of expertise is UX/UI/Design
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Jason 6:38 am on August 18, 2012 Permalink |
I would love to see some privacy features like facebooks
ubernaut 2:43 pm on August 18, 2012 Permalink |
didn’t they just implement that with 1.6 or were you talking about something else more specific?
zorro42 5:02 pm on August 23, 2012 Permalink |
salut, très bonne initiative,je vous souhaite de réussir.
amicalement a vous!
raminjan 3:10 pm on October 5, 2012 Permalink |
find friends: can we also thing about adding this app for finding friends? and also about the design of the theme and my suggestion would be to make theme options for columns, adding icons to links, make the theme responsive and video responsive like if video is posted then it would have the video preview in post and also shrinks if user adjusts the browser.
Paul Gibbs 11:56 am on October 6, 2012 Permalink |
“Find my friends” is technically complicated to do. We’d probably want to see it built as a really good plugin before considering for core.
Keep an eye on the blog for further updates about the theme changes and what that means.
Raminjan 2:59 am on October 7, 2012 Permalink
actually paul I have found a plugin which works great as find friend plugin and the author has listed for free do you want me to post the link so you guys can also evaluate it? the reason I suggested this is that I too like this plugin to be built as core app of the bp platform instead of being a plugin.
Maks 10:52 am on October 26, 2012 Permalink |
Hello, guys! I can help with Russian translation!
Paul Gibbs 12:03 pm on October 27, 2012 Permalink |
Great! Have you seen http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress ?
mkSTEVENS 5:31 am on November 4, 2012 Permalink |
Not sure if I would qualify for help, but figured I’d throw my hat in the ring. Been waiting for the day that Buddypress allowed site owners to use their own themes, and it seems like the day is almost there. I’m an amateur programmer/coder at best, but have the ability to follow instruction well. I’ve built my site via trial and error and learned a bunch of things along the way. If you’d like the support of a more amateur/average programmer, I’d love to have the opportunity to help test the theme compatibility portion of the plugin and give my feedback. If you don’t need my help, are you able to give a rough guess on when it’ll be released. I don’t need anything specific. A few weeks, a month, 6 months, a couple years. Depending on how far away the release is, I may attempt to create a child theme for Buddypress instead.
Thank you and look forward to your response,
-mk
Ian 5:28 am on November 6, 2012 Permalink |
Is it possible to add another type of group – one that anybody can see but only members can post to?
open source fan 10:29 am on April 6, 2013 Permalink |
I am using nature fox theme and buddypress is not working properly on this .
please make it compatible
when is the expected date?
thanks