- See previously BP Dev Chat summary February 27 (2023)
- In attendance: @dcavins @im4th
- Slack archive.
BP Attachments Add-on release & first feedbacks
It was released on 15th BuddyPress birthday (March 25). It got two 5 ⭐️ reviews so far, one of them is saying it’s a « game changer ». It’s making @im4th very happy considering the hard work the team already invested into this add-on. @dcavins plans to use it on some of the sites he manages to get feedbacks from more users. Inside the plugin’s support forum, requests were made about supporting the BP Legacy template pack & the Groups component.
12.0.0 development cycle updates
About #4954: @im4th accelerated on the BP Rewrites merge process as he realized there were more work than expected. Most of the BP URLs are now built using the BP Rewrites API, but quite an amount of functions needed to be deprecated/moved inside the BP Classic backcompat plugin. These deprecations will help us inform users they need to use this plugin to be sure to carry-on enjoying the third party plugin features that are not ready yet for the BP Rewrites API.
As the BP REST API & the BP Attachments Add-on will need to be improved to be ready for Rewrites, working on this will help us to advise third party plugin developers about the best way to stay compatible with pre 12.0 BP versions as well as next BP versions.
About #8457: @im4th decided to stop waiting for ParcelJS v2 to support global variables. The development team weirdly put this v1 feature out of v2 ones and there were no progress about bringing back this support for at least 2 years! The plan is to migrate to @wordpress/scripts which uses Webpack. You can follow our progress about it from this BP Blocks PR.
About #7018: @im4th quickly added some #[AllowDynamicProperties] to be compatible with PHP 8.2, but he thinks a better fix would be to properly declare all properties to our Classes. @dcavins agrees.
12.0.0 schedule
- 12.0.0-beta1 : April 15,
- 12.0.0 : May 31.
NB: we’ll need to update this initial schedule due to the BP Rewrites remaining work to achieve.
2022 feedbacks & 2023 roadmap
@im4th would really like to publish the wrap up post about the feedbacks we got last year. He thinks it’s important to say: « hey we read you, and here’s what we plan to do about it ». This post is waiting for review since February 27 and as it contains some suggestions about important changes he wishes we all agree about it or edit the parts we have different opinions on. @dcavins thinks this post is too long and suggests to split it as he’s afraid that the exciting stuff at the end is after too much text (which people mostly don’t read.).
Let’s try to decide about this during our next dev-chat.
Next Dev-Chat
It will happen on April 17 at 21:00 UTC in #BuddyPress. If you have specific points or ideas you want to discuss about, don’t hesitate to share them in comments.
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