Paul Gibbs is Release Lead for BP 3.0
Paul (twitter) is a BuddyPress Lead Developer, Senior WordPress Engineer at Human Made, master of memes extraordinaire, and lives in the UK. His latest project is WordHat, a Behat extension. When not working, Paul enjoys playing video and board games, and luxury travel. You can also find him at byotos.com and at github.com.
Following are a few of his plans for this dev cycle.
Nouveau Template Pack
The items listed below need to be resolved before we ship bp-nouveau and BP 3.0:
1. Review all the superglobals and JSON handlers and nonces, for security.
2. Review all i18n strings.
3. Review of custom SQL.
BuddyPress.org Redesign
Paul is also reviving the development of the site’s redesign. If you’d like to participate, get in contact with Paul on our Slack. The current code is at https://gitlab.com/paulgibbs/bporg and there’s a staging site at http://dev-bporg.pantheonsite.io
Dev Chats
In lieu of the weekly dev chats in Slack, Paul would be using this site for async contribution updates and explore other avenues for developer chats like video hangouts, etc. Expect an announcement soon.
Schedule of Release
BP 3.0 is expected to be released early in the first quarter of 2018. We won’t be following the 3- to 4-month scheduling as in the past BuddyPress releases. BP 3.0 will be a focused release, specifically introducing the new Nouveau template pack along with other bug fixes and enhancements along the way.
BuddyPress Case Studies
Thanks to all who have shared their BuddyPress use cases with the community! The list of published articles this year are available in the BuddyPress Codex for your reference. If you’re interested in sharing your own BuddyPress use case, fill up this form and we’ll get back to you ASAP.
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