- See previously BP Dev Chat summary (February 26, 2020)
- In attendance: @mercime @johnjamesjacoby @boonebgorges @dcavins @espellcaste & @im4th
- Slack archive
BuddyPress Survey
We’ve been discussing about adding questions about 2 topics : BuddyPress integration with e-commerce plugins and BuddyPress alternatives. We found a compromise about the second topic and @mercime will add this question:
What other networking/membership plugin/software have you considered or used?
@espellcaste suggested to add a question about BP GraphQL consideration. @im4th suggested to add this feedback to the Google doc @mercime uses to work on the survey questions.
Progress about 6.0.0 release
@im4th asked about the BP REST API complete merge into BuddyPress core now all remaining endpoints are ready. @espellcaste prefers to keep maintaining it from its GitHub repository for now.
@im4th has decided to merge the BP Blocks plugin into BuddyPress core, following @johnjamesjacoby advice to reconsider his first idea about only merging “JavaScript built” blocks. A complete merge seems a better option to make sure to generate a pot file taking in account JavaScript translations. He recently added a patch on #8048 to make this happen, feedbacks welcome.
@dcavins was a bit worried he needed more than 2 weeks to end the Network invites work. If it’s the case, he will only include a portion of the code into 6.0.0.
Finally @im4th asked for help about #7729 @rayisme has been working on during. It’s about removing the legacy BuddyBar.
6.0.0 schedule & main features
- Schedule:
- First beta at the end of march.
- Final release at the end of April.
- Main Features:
- BP REST API remaining endpoints ✅
- BP Blocks ✅
- Network invitation & Membership requests 😬
- & maybe some surprises! 😬
Next dev chat
It will happen on March 25 at 19:00 UTC (a few days before first beta 🙄) and of course in #BuddyPress. If you have ideas or questions, feel free (and we are strongly encouraging you) to comment this summary to share them!
BP Dev Updates 