- See previously BP Dev Chat summary (October 21, 2020)
- In attendance: @vapvarun @dcavins @johnjamesjacoby @im4th
- Slack archive
7.0.0 latest updates
@im4th started the meeting sharing that the ticket (#8179) about the default Blog avatar has been committed and that a developer note has been published on this site. @vapvarun suggested we should respect some consistency about the UI we use when setting a group’s types or a member’s types. A ticket (#8389) has since been reported and fixed: from now on the WP-Admin/Extended Profile’s member type metabox will use checkboxes.
@im4th has updated the BP REST API’s Blogs Endpoint so that it enjoys the improvement we brought about the default Blog avatar (#BP-REST-358). He said he had no time to update the BP REST API developers documentation, but as he felt pretty guilty about it, he worked on it lately and made good progress as only the Signups and Friends Endpoints need a documentation review.
@dcavins has been working on updating the list of Props from our Trac environment and @im4th worked on the list of Props from the BP REST plugin GitHub repository. A patch is ready about these updates (#8376). Here are our progress about 7.0.0 release tasks.
| Tasks | Owner | Progress |
| BP REST API documentation updates | @im4th | 90% |
| BP Survey results | @im4th | 0% |
| 7.0.0 Release note | @vapvarun | 0% |
| 7.0.0 Credits update: – BuddyPress Trac – BP REST GitHub repository | @dcavins @im4th | 100% 100% |
| 7.0.0 Pizza Restaurant name | @dcavins | 🤫 |
| 7.0.0 Announcement post | @im4th | 0% |
Last checks before releasing 7.0.0-beta2
We’ve decided to postpone the 7.0.0-beta2 release to tomorrow (November 11th, 2020). @im4th was concerned about a cache issue (#8388) that was reported lately about the xProfile component. @dcavins volunteered to work on it and has since contributed to 2 patches. Don’t hesitate to comment on the ticket to share with him your thoughts about our 2 possible ways to fix this issue. @vapvarun brought to our attention another issue (#8386) that was reported about the BP Nouveau Template pack. @im4th volunteered to work on it. It has been since fixed. @im4th also asked @vapvarun to test the patch attached to the ticket (#8384) about making sure Site Icons / Blog avatars synchronization is also happening when BuddyPress is not network activated on multisite configurations. He recently tested it and we will probably include it into the 7.0.0-beta2 release. Finally @johnjamesjacoby improved the new strings we introduced about the BP Types UI 🤝. We finally agreed on this new schedule for the 7.0.0 development cycle.
- 7.0.0-Beta2: November 11.
- 7.0.0-RC: November 18.
- 7.0.0 final release: December 9.
Open floor
@vapvarun shared his enthusiasm about the promising download results of the BuddyX theme he recently submitted on the WordPress.org Themes Directory 🍕👏📈. As it’s a beautiful BuddyPress theme, @im4th asked him to work on a post to share his experience about the process he had to go through to have his theme hosted on the official Themes Directory. We will soon publish this post on BuddyPress.org 🎨 .
We also talked about the BuddyPress code reference, it’s still under construction but @vapvarun ran some tests about it lately so we might progress about it soon!
Next Dev-Chat
It will happen on November 18 at 19:00 UTC 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!
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