BP Dev-Chat Summary April 17, 2024

🧰 BuddyPress 14.0.0

We first talked about ticket #8728 (allowing group mods/admins to delete corresponding group activities):

@emaralive did a great job reviewing existing group roles capabilities. We now have a clear understanding of these.
He also worked on fixing the filter callback so that it actually do what it was built for: allowing group mods/admins to delete corresponding activities.
@espellcaste has prepared unit tests about it.
The last point we needed to take a decision about was to introduce a global community setting to let the site’s Administrator to allow/disallow group mods/admins to delete activity as well as a « per group » basis setting to let the group creator to allow/disallow this delegation for their group. We all agreed it will be a nice addition. So next steps about this ticket is to build the corresponding UIs (BP Settings Admin screen + Group’s create/manage/admin screens).
As this summary is being written very late, @emaralive has updated the patch on the ticket 4 days ago and suggests we don’t need a group setting: promoting members to mods or admins seems sufficient.

We then talked about the Activity Block Editor (see ticket #8319):

« Videmo » of the BP Activity Block Editor Add-on

It’s still a work in progress that needs improvements such as being able to use this editor to comment an activity (@emaralive noted it), making sure using the paragraph block’s alignment button actually aligns the posted activity.
It replaces the current Activity WP Admin screen with a specific Activity stream using this editor to post, edit & comment existing activities.
Goal is to first publish it as « feature as a plugin » on WordPress Plugin directory, see how people welcome/use it before eventually merging it into the BP Activity component.

We finally talked about other tickets progress:

#8976 Adding custom xProfile fields to registration REST API endpoint: @espellcaste has made great progress about it and should have it fixed soon.
#9129 Automated tests with cache services: @espellcaste informed us we’d need a specific GitHub Action to reach this goal as it doesn’t seem possible to use the WordPress env package.
#6123 has been fixed, 14.0.0 won’t create users during a regular WP user registration, see this developer note for additional information.

It will happen today Thursday May 2, 2024 at 19:00 UTC (exceptionaly as yesterday was a day off) in #BuddyPress.