imath 7:46 am on February 16, 2024
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BP Dev-Chat Summary February 5, 2024

What do we expect from 14.0.0?

  • We started with a very interesting thread about transforming the Private Messages component as a Slack-like chat system where BP Groups could be used as channels to discuss with corresponding group members. The wp-sync package could help us to reach this goal.
  • As it’s a pretty huge change, improving the Private Messages component using pagination could be a first step on our road. The potential backwards compatibility obstacle with Standalone BuddyPress themes could be avoided improving the way we currently use the WP Theme support feature adding a list of buddypress features. Eg: add_theme_support( 'buddypress', [ 'messages_pagination', 'etc..' ] ).
  • @emaralive suggested to have a look at the Better Messages plugin.
  • We talked about #7133: Having @rayisme‘s BP Followers into our Add-ons galaxy would be a great addition. As @im4th already got in touch with @rayisme about this subject he will contact him again to ask him if he’s fine with transferring the GitHub repo into the BuddyPress org so it’s easier for the team to contribute to it.
  • @espellcaste see potential Cron related issues about #7953 (Activity Scheduling).
  • @im4th thinks we should consider improve Activity favorites to act like bookmarks or likes, see #5644.
  • About BuddyVibes @im4th is currently working on making it a WP Block only Theme first. He thinks if we’re waiting for a design contribution it will never happen, reason why he chose to work on a very basic structure.

14.0.0 first schedule!

14.0.0 will be a shorter development cycle than 12.0.0 (which took us almost a year). A 4/5 months development cycle was decided: 14.0.0-beta1 in 4 months, final release in 5 months.

  • June 3: 14.0.0-beta1 .
  • July 8: 14.0.0.

@dcavins suggested to start discussing on the tickets we should keep into the 14.0.0 milestone during our next meeting. @espellcaste suggested to start looking into it a bit before the meeting to only leave the tickets we should discuss about.

Next Dev-Chat

It will happen on February 19, 2024 at 21:00 UTC in #BuddyPress.

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