BP Dev-Chat Summary January 8, 2024

NB: this development meeting was the first one of 2024. HNY 🍻

12.1.0 minor release

8 bugs out of 10 were fixed so far. @emaralive has been pretty active on the subject catching 3 of these, others came from our 12.0.0 forum topic.
BP Classic also required a bug fix for multisite configs where the BP root blog is not the main network site.
Releases are scheduled on January 15.

14.0.0 will require WordPress 6.1 or up, see #9051. This jump is complying with our WP requirements policy and allows us to simplify our PHPUnit GitHub action removing a dependency to the wp-phpunit/wp-phpunit composer package now wp-env version 9.0 is simplifying PHPUnit test suites configuration, see #9053. A developer note will be published about this requirement bump once the change will be effective.
@dcavins is interested in improving site invitations/request management and thinks we should also improve BP compatibility with block themes.
@im4th more globally thinks we should review our different registration flows (see #9046 & #9057).
@im4th believes we should work on a block theme for BuddyPress, he asked a friend (Grégoire Noyelle) very active on the subject in France to give us a hand to meet this challenge. We already have a WIP you can contribute to!
@im4th reminded the team we also need to make sure we are doing what we wrote we would do: the Block Theme was one of the features we announced, as well as the Activity Block Editor and progressively moving optional components into Add-ons.
Finally we decided to collect ideas about 14.0.0 opening a topic about it in our forum. @im4th thinks it will be the first time we’ll do it this way and @dcavins thinks it’s a good thing as it’s the the most public way of doing it.

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