BP Dev Chat Summary, September 18

• See previously BP Dev Chat summary (September 4)
• In attendance: @boonebgorges @im4th
• Slack archive

5.0.0’s schedule

🎯 5.0.0 release: ~ September 30.

About 5.0.0 RC1

The release candidate was packaged on September 17. A few hours late comparing to the schedule: @im4th explained this was due to last minute fixes he had to do about failing unit tests for WordPress trunk (5.3 dev cycle).

So far no feedbacks were published about this release candidate in BP Trac or in BP Support Forums.

BP Rest API Documentation site

A first version of it is now available on developer.buddypress.org. There is still work to achieve to improve the responsiveness of the theme and the way it integrates itself into the BuddyPress.org network.

@boonebgorges and @im4th agreed it was ok to launch it in this state. @im4th will soon post about it on BuddyPress.org so that BuddyPress developers are informed about the BP REST API handbook availability.

5.0.0 remaining tasks

@boonebgorges will work on extracting the release props next week. As the BP REST API has been maintained on GitHub so far, we’ll need to incorpore manually these contributor names. He & im4th will also review the “Recent Rockstars” list.

@im4th will take care of drafting the first version of the announcement post and writing the release page on the Codex.

About the 🍕 name of the 5.0.0.. It’s a surprise !

Next dev-chat

It will happen on October 2 at 19:00 UTC in #BuddyPress slack channel 2 days after the 5.0.0 release. We will talk about its first feedbacks and about our first ideas for the next(s) development cycle(s).

#5-0-0

BP Dev Chat agenda: September 18, 2019.

This is the agenda for our next Dev Chat which will happen this Wednesday (tomorrow) at 19:00 UTC in #BuddyPress.

• 5.0.0-RC1 first feedbacks.
• A first version of the BP REST API Documentation site is ready. Let’s discuss about how to announce it to our community.
• 5.0.0 remaining tasks :
  • Announcement post,
  • Release page on the Codex,
  • Recent rockstars & release props,
  • 🍕 name for the release!

If you have anything you wish to add to this agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

#5-0-0

BuddyPress 5.0.0 Release Candidate

Hi everyone,

The release candidate of BuddyPress 5.0.0 is available for testing. Read more about it in this announcement post.

Thanks in advance for your tests 😍

#5-0-0, #rc

New Invitations API Coming in BuddyPress 5.0

As part of BuddyPress 5.0, we’ve included a new core API for managing invitations. This API stores data in a new table, bp_invitations, and introduces new classes to handle working with invitations stored in the new table. The API clears the way for the development of useful  features like site invitations (hopefully coming in 5.1) but starts by handling group invitations and membership requests.

For most users and developers, the changes will be subtle. Existing group invitations will be migrated to the invitations table, and the current behaviors have been maintained. Managing invitations and requests will still be accomplished using familiar functions like groups_invite_user() or groups_accept_membership_request(). Queries made using BP_Group_Member_Query will continue to work as expected.

However, if you are directly querying the bp_groups_members table to find invitations and membership requests, these queries will no longer work, since the pending memberships will be stored in the new bp_invitations table. Happily, we’ve introduced several new functions, like groups_get_invites() and groups_get_requests(), that make finding invitations easier and more reliable.

The signatures of several functions have changed from accepting one or two parameters to accepting an array of parameters to support the new flexibility of the underlying API. The following functions now accept an array of parameters and will issue a deprecation notice if standard parameters are passed into them:

• groups_send_invites()
• groups_send_membership_request()

Three membership request management functions have also changed from accepting a membership_id as the first parameter to relying on the user_id and group_id parameters to find the correct request to change:

• groups_accept_membership_request()
• groups_reject_membership_request()
• groups_delete_membership_request()

Other improvements include the following:

• BP_Invitation objects are cached
• Queries made via the BP_Invitation class are cached
• Extension is straightforward; see BP_Groups_Invitation_Manager for an example
• Many scattered direct queries have been replaced by calls to the API
• Messages included in invitations and requests are now included in the notice email

If you have any questions or comments, please let us know.

BuddyPress 5.0.0-beta2 📢

Hi BuddyPress contributors!

Guess what, BuddyPress 5.0.0-beta2 is available for testing!

Read more about it here

#beta

BP Dev Chat agenda: September 4, 2019.

This is the agenda for our next Dev Chat which will happen this Wednesday (tomorrow) at 19:00 UTC in #BuddyPress.

• 5.0.0-beta1 feedbacks & issues 🏜
• BP REST API Documentation site 🔥
• Hello BuddyPress 5.0.0 #8132 🤔
• Should we publish a 5.0.0-beta2 ? 📣

If you have anything you wish to add to this agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

BP Dev Chat Agenda: August 21, 2019

This is the agenda for our next Dev Chat which will happen this Wednesday at 19:00 UTC in #BuddyPress.

1. BP REST API
   • Latest updates about the code.
   • Documentation.
   • Let’s decide about how we will include the BP REST API in the beta release, see #7156
2. Potential tickets to move to next/future release.
3. Beta Release tasks repartition (Beta1 is scheduled to the week after this dev-chat).

If you have anything you wish to add to this agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

#5-0-0