Dev Chat Summary for September 7, 2016

BuddyPress 2.7

• Beta 1 – September 21, 2016
• There are currently 108 tickets in queue (65 closed, 43 open).

Trac Tickets

Groups query overhaul (#5451) @boonebgorges has patch to boost performance and object caching for the Groups component. He noted, “There will be some backward compatibility breaks for anyone using `bp_groups_get_(paged|total)_groups_sql` filters and has listed some plugins in ticket. Dev feedback requested –  especially @djpaulgibbs and @rayisme ( @dcavins has already voiced his support 🙂  )” @rayisme has posted support as well. Update: This is now in trunk.

Hierarchical groups (#3961) @dcavins is ready to commit the patch which has a cache invalidation scheme. @boonebgorges said patch looks good and mentioned testing the patch with thousands of groups. @dcavins is prepared to test with a group generator via WP-CLI.

Friends: Add caching to BP_Friends_Friendship class (#6978) @dcavins has refreshed patch which caches friendship objects separately from a users’ friendships.

Change bp_sort_by_key() to allow key preservation (#7238) @dcavins has patch, “If anyone has reservations about changing the underlying function call, please add a note on the ticket.”

Add action hook(s) outside the group admin form (#7249) @dcavins has patch. @boonebgorges, “seems fine to me.” @tw2113 “is fine to me too, it has its docs.” 😀 Update: This has been committed to trunk

No group members search in groupname/admin/manage-members/ (#6385) @dcavins has patch. Dev feedback needed.

Improve group management members screen (#7105) @dcavins has patch. @boonebgorges has posted comment in ticket. Update: This has been committed to trunk

Update BP_buttons class to accept new arg param for $element_type (#7226) @r-a-y requested feedback for current patch.

Group type frontend integration (#7210) @rayisme noted in ticket that he was going to commit patch soon. This has @boonebgorges‘ ♥ stamp.

Only load component action and screen code when we’re on the component’s page (#7218) @rayisme has patch. Dev feedback requested for relocating functions.

Screen notifications settings page (#6712) @rayisme has patches for a separate screen notifications panel as well as for a new merged notifications (email and screen) panel. @dcavins likes the “idea of a central place to manage communication.” @boonebgorges “I haven’t tested the patch, but I definitely like the idea of a central place for managing this stuff. I’ll check it out. What to do with 3rd-party settings doesn’t seem like a dealbreaker either way.”

Use WP page names for BP directory pages headings (#6765) @hnla requested dev feedback. @boonebgorges will look into this.

Display and filter by member type on Dashboard > Users (#6060) @dcavins has updated patch. Dev feedback requested – “a lookover would be great because this should easily apply to the groups wp-admin table with slight modification.” @boonebgorges will try to take a look.

Creation of developer.buddypress.org (#6812) @tw2113 has set up test site at https://trexthepirate.com/buddypress/

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1473274934000113

#3961, #5451, #6060, #6385, #6712, #6765, #6812, #6978, #7105, #7210, #7218, #7226, #7238, #7249, #dev-chat

Dev Chat Summary for August 31, 2016

BuddyPress 2.7

• Beta 1 – Sept. 21, 2016
• There are currently 98 tickets in queue (56 closed, 42 open).

Trac Tickets

BP-legacy: split group single admin.php in separate template files (#7079) @hnla has committed this to trunk. If you have copied over `groups/single/admin.php` and made some changes, there won’t be any changes to your theme. You might want to consider, however, “updating your file/s to the newer modular markup to enjoy improvements”, @dcavins said.

Improve `$args` included in ⁠⁠⁠⁠`bp_current_user_can`⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠`bp_user_can`⁠⁠⁠⁠ filters (#7192) @dcavins requested feedback from @rayisme who gave the nod. Update: @dcavins has committed patch to trunk.

Select All link missing in BuddyPress Menu Selection (#5260) @tw2113 has committed patch to trunk.

Extract & relocate core markup functions: Theme compat include functionality & search forms file (#6844) @boonebgorges has committed this to trunk.

Use WP page names for BP directory pages headings (#6765) @hnla, @imath, @boonebgorges, and @dcavins have contributed patches for this ticket and @rayisme has shared a code snippet. @hnla requested dev feedback.

strtotime() is evil don’t use it (#5781) @rayisme has committed patches for this ticket. He requests feedback on the `5781.mysql2date.patch`. “All of our `⁠⁠⁠⁠strtotime()⁠⁠⁠⁠` calls assume that GMT is the default timezone.  If the server’s timezone is anything but GMT, then our time rendering is wrong. Almost all of BP’s timestamps are in GMT.” Dev feedback requested.

Screen notifications settings page (#6712) @rayisme has patch. Dev feedback welcome.

Date xprofile field enhancement (#5500) @boonebgorges has updated patch. This ticket “is mostly done – just working out a couple of UI and acccessibilty issues near the end.”

BP Types UI

@boonebgorges and @dcavins will be developing the new dashboard UI for creating Member Types and Group Types as a plugin first. @boonebgorges has created the new repo at https://github.com/buddypress/bp-types-ui

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1472669906000142

#5260, #5500, #5781, #6712, #6765, #6844, #7079, #7192, #dev-chat

Dev Chat Summaries as of August 17, 2016

This is a compilation of our dev chats for Aug. 3, Aug. 10, and Aug. 17. Thanks for your patience 🙂

BuddyPress 2.6.2

@dcavins packaged and released BuddyPress 2.6.2 last August 4, 2016. This was a maintenance release.

BuddyPress 2.7

• September 21 – Beta 1
• October 5 – Release Candidate 1 (string freeze)
• October 12 – Target Release date
• There are currently 84 tickets in queue (44 closed, 40 open).

Trac Tickets

• Hierarchical groups (#3961) @dcavins had a patch which added the parent_id column to the groups database and support for querying by parent_id via groups_get_group() and @rayisme has uploaded a new patch which includes cache invalidation, among others. Dev feedback requested.
• Group type frontend integration (#7210) @rayisme has patch which includes new UI. Dev feedback requested.
• Display and filter by member type on Dashboard > Users (#6060) @slaFFik has patch. Dev feedback requested.
• xprofile field support for WordPress Profile Fields (#7162) @djpaulgibbs: “We’ve not touched the xprofile sync code in years. So if anyone has any ideas about this … and what a new implementation should work like, please comment on the ticket.” He might work on this for BP 2.8.
• Only load component action and screen code when we’re on the component’s page (#7218) @rayisme has patch for the activity component.
• Select All link missing in BuddyPress Menu Selection (#5260) @tw2113 has patch and ready to commit. Review and testing requested.
• BP-legacy: split group single admin.php in separate template files (#7079) Patches by @offereins, @hnla, and @rayisme. Dev feedback requested.
• Date xprofile field enhancement (#5500) @boonebgorges has patch which includes new UI. Dev feedback welcome.
  Related: @djpaulgibbs has been talking to Miguel from the https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/ plugin about porting some of that plugin’s field types into core. Tickets will be created when ready.
• Implement user capabilities for Activity component (#7176) @djapulgibbs has patch. Needs feedback from anyone who knows roles/caps API well.
• Screen notifications settings page (#6712) @rayisme is working on this ticket. Related to Central place to manage all notifications and delivery preferences (#7168). Needs wireframes. @mercime has volunteered.
• Extract & relocate core markup functions: Theme compat include functionality & search forms file (#6844) @hnla has patch. Dev feedback requested. @boonebgorges has agreed to review patch.
• Member/Group Type management in wp-admin @boonebgorges: “If my schedule loosens up in the next few weeks, I will make a first go at a first patch “
• Accessibility Tickets. @mercime – Goal is to make our front-end templates and at least  85% of BP admin screens accessible-ready by 2.7 launch. There are some style issues for the headings at this time, but will resolve them before deadline.

Notes

• @djpaulgibbs: “I’m always available for code review and playing the devil’s advocate in feature discussions.
  I would also like to remind regular contributors they are very welcome to leave feedback on tickets in Awaiting Review and Under Consideration milestones on Trac. There’s a backlog, and we really need to do better here. So if anyone wants a change from forum support or development or translation, check out Trac.”

#3961, #5260, #5500, #6060, #6712, #6844, #7079, #7162, #7168, #7176, #7210, #7218, #dev-chat

Nouveau – A BP Template Pack Story

Well a few further updates 🙂

Following on from our first introductory update The State of the BP Nouveau template pack we are happy to provide a little more insight into the ongoing development of this project.

Since that first update we have updated many files pushing some ~110 commits ~410 commits in total to date.

We have comprehensively re-factored and structured the directory layout and created many new include files. Styles are re-worked into a modular series of partial files representing two levels  – those that are called and compiled as the base styles and those that are unique to given TP & living in the TP directory.

The focus of the last couple of weeks has really been on template re-factoring, updating markup , improving semantics, adding or removing classes as required while working through screens updating styles. Updating visual styles also involves paying attention to  the structure and formatting of the files, looking at the nesting of rules (less depth allowed in lint rules) , attempting to ensure we have lighter files with selector specificity that’s lower and less troublesome to override and ultimately to hopefully compile css files that are a little smaller in kb.
Amongst other additions since last we wrote there have been:

• Navigational user selected styles
  We now provide a vertical navigation selection for user object navs seen here

• Additional styles for Navs or links exist too so we can have  a default subnav view or a tabbed look, the tabbed look  work as styles & classes  that can be dropped on most ul list links so we can use them on links such as the profile group links or the message screen links:These styles for tabbed navs work from classes to apply the styles in the same way the vertical navs function so in time we will add these to the customizer when we’ve worked out what elements benefit from the choices (apart from the obvious).

 

• Messages gained a massive upgrade courtesy of @im4th as described in the last update further to this we have updated some of the markup for better semantics and tweaked the styling a bit for both the inbox messages listing & preview screen & single message thread views:

• All Nav elements in general have received a review and class tokens upgrade to try and make them a little more useful  and clear – gone is reference to ‘tabs’ unless they are specifically visually styled as such. Navs have had a round of default styling as a base line on which we can build out further styles and attention to some very simple screen widths so that we have something that will work for small mobile/tablet devices.
• On User screens we have looked at creating a more uniform approach and consistency to headings and simple explanatory text so for example on the user settings screens we have added headings and text to all screens so it’s clear exactly what your looking at, this process is replicated across all screens where required.

• Whats new textarea gets a tidy up of styles to compliment the work carried out by imath for both small and wide screen views.
• General tables get a freshen up and font sizes managed for th/td cells.
• BP Lists get attention for heading/meta font sizes & layouts for small / wide screens.
• Update the Group Create steps screens, improves the markup and classes and pulls out the BP core steps navigation to include in nouveau template-tags file and adjusts markup.
• Updates for mixins & scss variable files – improves color choices by variable reference, create more individual specific vars to allow changing of  more specific elements without changing all e.g $nav-hover: $dark-grey; allows $nav-hover to take a different color or var while another element can still use $dark-grey as set. Mixins get updates  for responsive text  to compliment the general font size mixin, this allows a value to be divided by a percentage on smaller breakpoints. New clearfix mixin allows clearfix rules to be added to an element fed as a param of the mixin. Add a variation of the messages box used in companion styles; this mixin allows backgrounds  and color to be passed to message element rulesets, authors can now override the defaults for border, background, color. Update our password strength warning colors for variable definitions rather than hardcoded hex.

Moving forward we have more templates to still run over and review for the best markup structure classes and of course a full and detailed review of accessibility improvements we can bring to our templates which @mercime will be tackling at a convenient moment.

@im4th is currently looking at the implementation of the template pack selector for core on this ticket :

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7157

As well as continuing to drive new and exciting functionality for bp-nouveau. (take a look at the proposal here for example: https://github.com/buddypress/next-template-packs/issues/64)

We encourage everyone to download and follow along with the development plugin, you can download from:

https://github.com/buddypress/next-template-packs/archive/master.zip

or of course checkout to your plugins local dev via git:

https://github.com/buddypress/next-template-packs.git

We have specific Template dev Chats on Thursdays @ 19:00 UTC on BP’s slack channel, please come along and provide feedback or simply follow along all and any participation is hugely welcome.

If you’re running the plugin and spot an issue or have an idea for an improvement then you can use BP’s issue tickets on the next-template-pack repo to report them:

https://github.com/buddypress/next-template-packs/issues

And last but not least please feel free to leave any comments or questions on this post and we’ll attempt to respond to them 🙂

 

Regards, the Template Pack Team.

 

BP 2.7 Kickoff Meeting – July 13, 2016

Project Schedule

• July 13, 2016 – Kickoff – scoping/wishlist
• September 21, 2016 – Beta 1
• October 5, 2016 – Release Candidate 1 (string freeze)
• October 12, 2016 – Target release date for BuddyPress 2.7

Release Lead for BuddyPress 2.8

Slava Abakumov (twitter) has been translating BuddyPress to Russian since October 2008 (long before the very first beta) and has submitted many BuddyPress plugins to the WordPress repository. He is a doting father, developer, and project manager, who also enjoys road-cycling and roller-skating. His motto is “Be good, have fun, create things”.

Congratulations @slaffik! 🙂

BuddyPress Leads in the Windy City

Watch out Chicago! @johnjamesjacoby, @boonebgorges, and @djpaulgibbs will be spending some time together at an undisclosed location in the city this Monday, July 18. 🙂

bbPress 2.5.10

bbPress 2.5.10 was packaged and released by @johnjamesjacoby Wednesday, July 13. This was a security release so please upgrade if you haven’t already.

Navigation API in Codex

@boonebgorges has posted a new article about the new Navigation API. Check out all the examples to help you with customizations.

BP 2.7 Scoping/Wishlist

BLOGS

• Blogs single items (#6026) @im4th

CORE

• Accessibility fixes for BP Admin screens and templates @mercime
• Widget for logged-in user Notifications used in wp-toolbar (#7183)

DOCUMENTATION

• developer.buddypress.org (#6812) @tw2113

GROUPS

• Admin UI for Group Types (#7179) (#7180) @tw2113, @mercime
• Add basic support for hierarchical groups (#3961) @dcavins
• Groups: Draft, Locked or Suspended status (#6677) @dcavins
• Get group type integration on the frontend @rayisme

MEMBERS

• Admin UI for New Member Type (#7181) (#7182) @tw2113, @mercime

REST API – @boonebgorges and @rayisme

TEMPLATES

• Extract & relocate core markup functions @hnla

TOOLBAR AND NOTIFICATIONS

• Screen notifications settings page (#6712) @rayisme
• Notifications widget (#7183) @mercime

Though not mentioned during dev chat, following are a few of many interesting tickets which you might like to contribute to or kibitz about:

• Merge BuddyPress Followers into BuddyPress Core (#7133)
• UI to pick Template Packs (#7157)
• Admin UI options for all template features (#7160)
• Add #hashtag auto-suggest (#7165)

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1468436417003180
(Slack account is required)

#3961, #6026, #6677, #6712, #6812, #7133, #7157, #7160, #7165, #7179, #7180, #7181, #7182, #7183, #dev-chat

Priorities for the Next 12 Months

Written by @mercime and @boonebgorges.

July 6, 2016 — Dev Chat. Project leads @johnjamesjacoby, @boonebgorges, and @djpaulgibbs presented a number of strategic priorities to help guide BuddyPress development in the upcoming year. These priorities are meant to reflect more accurately the arc of core development over the last few years, as well as the team’s understanding of how BuddyPress is actually used.

An Increased Focus on Site Builders and WordPress developers

One of these strategic priorities involves defining the primary intended audience for BuddyPress. Traditionally, BP has tried to balance the flexibility and power demanded by developers and site builders with the simplicity and out-of-the-box functionality desired by end users. In the upcoming releases, BuddyPress will be focusing increasingly on site builders and developers.

@djpaulgibbs: BuddyPress is used by many different kinds of people. We’ll improve BuddyPress by focusing on a narrower target audience: site builders and WordPress developers. This will cause many subtle but meaningful changes throughout the project. However, this is not a big change — it’s just an explicit recognition of what BuddyPress has become, and how people use it.

@boonebgorges: It will no longer be our #1 priority for BP to be 100% turnkey. We have often closed tickets and decided against certain features because we wanted to adhere closely to WP’s “decisions, not options” principle. This principle is designed to serve the non-technical owner who wants something as great as possible, immediately on activation. What the new ideas suggest is that we should embrace configurability a bit more. I think we can and should continue to strive to have a great out-of-the-box experience but we should be OK with deciding to emphasize the developer and site-assembler experience.

@djpaulgibbs The original tagline for BP was “a social network in a box”. It’s now become a set of tools or resources to let you ​build things with it. An example of more configurability/options that came up during discussion was https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddyextender In time I imagine all of those and more (like, the default option for select boxes for the filters on the Directory screens) would become contenders for inclusion in BuddyPress core.

@boonebgorges A general consequence of this reorientation is that we don’t have to say “plugin territory” as much because we are not tied to the idea of “no config screens”, “80% rule”, etc.

BP REST API and BP wp-admin screens

@djpaulgibbs: The two key strategic priorities for the project are the REST API and wp-admin management screens. These are the most important because, alongside the existing front-end templates, we’ll have 3 different “views” of BuddyPress data, empowering our audience to use as little or as much BuddyPress as they need, however they want.

Why there are two strategic priorities when front-end templates as a third view also mentioned: as @dcavins says, we already have those built, and we are building new templates now. It’s also the way BuddyPress has always been, which we’ll continue to support. But to attract new developers and new uses for BuddyPress, the REST API is pretty huge.

REST API is very important because it’ll expose BuddyPress data in a different way, and make it easy for developers to use that data to build anything. Like, mobile apps, JS-only React sites that don’t even use WordPress for templating (instead only as a data store), etc. In such cases where the front-end templates won’t be used, the REST API will provide a way to programatically update that data.

Also, the wp-admin management screens will let site owners manage that data, if they’re only using the REST API as a read-only data source. Providing shortcodes (#7159) will let people disable the front-end templating, yet still access BuddyPress data in their blog posts, or custom templates, etc.

BP REST API is being developed at Github – https://github.com/buddypress/BP-REST

bp-nouveau Template Pack

@djpaulgibbs: Our new template pack has momentum. Because the front-end templates will no longer have to be all things to all people, our template pack can be much bolder and more opinionated with our design choices.

Major strides have been made since the new template pack project launched last April 13 with @im4th at the helm with @hnla. You can help make the new template pack happen. Join us!

• Meetings: Every Thursday at 19:00 UTC
• Github Repository: https://github.com/buddypress/next-template-packs

BP Trac Component Maintainers

In order to move to the direction we want to focus on, there will be a post calling for component maintainers with tasks similar to WP core’s maintainers. An upcoming post will include more information for anyone interested.

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1467831687002740
(Slack account is required)

#dev-chat

Dev Chat Summary for June 15, 2016

BuddyPress RC 1

@dcavins packaged and released BuddyPress 2.6.0 RC 1 (string freeze) last Wednesday, June 15, 2016.
* Developers: Please test your BP plugins and themes with our new features this dev cycle 🙂
* Translators: We need translators for BuddyPress. If you’re interested in contributing, @danbp has written a topic about how you can get involved.

BuddyPress 2.6.0

• BuddyPress 2.6.0 release: June 22, 2016.
• As of this post, 109 tickets have been fixed for this release.

RC 1 Release Preparation

We discussed two tickets remaining in trac: moving stylesheet of activity embed to to bp-legacy’s /css/ folder (#7123 fixed.) and the Welcome Screen for 2.6 (#7108 fixed).
* Thanks to @im4th for preparing the video demonstrating BP’s new Activity Embed feature on our Welcome Screen.
* Thanks to @djpaulgibbs and @jerrysarcastic for facilitating the transfer of the video to WordPress.tv.
* And thanks @dcavins, @rayisme, and @hnla for improving the text of the Welcome Screen.

New Codex articles for BP 2.6

Thanks to @rayisme for publishing the following articles:
* Activity Embeds
* Group Types API

Improving Management of Trac Tickets

@djpaulgibbs will be implementing some changes to Trac over this weekend per his post here at bpdevel. @dcavins reminded all to comment on @offerein’s suggestions about BP trac ticket categories and focuses.

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1466017239000114

#7108, #7123, #dev-chat

Dev Chat Summary for May 25, 2016

BuddyPress 2.5.3

@boonebgorges packaged and released BuddyPress 2.5.3 last Tuesday, May 24. This is a maintenance and security release, a recommended upgrade for all BuddyPress installations.

BuddyPress 2.5.4

• There are currently 2 tickets in queue.
• Release date: To be announced.

BuddyPress 2.6.0

@dcavins postponed Beta 1 release last week, along with the RC 1 and 2.6.0 releases. The schedule for this dev cycle is updated as follows:

• Beta 1: June 1, 2016
• Release Candidate 1 (string freeze): June 15, 2016
• 2.6.0 release date: June 22, 2016
• There are currently 98 tickets in queue (Closed: 88. Open: 10.).

Trac Tickets

Companion Stylesheet – Twentyten and Twentyeleven (#7000) @hnla has committed stylesheets to trunk.

Harmonize structure of radio and check box input groups (#7083) @dcavins requested comments on patch. @im4th mentioned some code changes. @rayisme gave thumbs up. Comments in ticket are welcome.

Autocomplete (#4824) Ticket has been punted for future release. Update: @boonebgorges has committed patch to trunk.

Add a “data-timestamp” attribute to all templates requiring timestamps (#5757) @rayisme has uploaded new patch. Needs polyglot help for time strings output by the JS library are not the same as we currently generate. This ticket has been punted to get localization on point.

`get_group_extras` function doesn’t “respect” the `user_id` variable from `groups_get_groups()` function (#6431) Ticket has not been updated for some time and has been punted to Future Release.

Blogs: Improvements to `bp_blogs_record_existing_blogs()` (#6370) Update: @rayisme has committed the improvements to trunk.

Activity replies posting as new items (#6683) @im4th has patch and requested feedback. Positive feedback from @boonebgorges, @im4th, @dcavins, and @djpaulgibbs. Update: @im4th has punted ticket to Future Release.

Activity link moderation doesn’t output useful error message to end users (#6719) @rayisme has patch. Comments welcome. @djpaul mentioned that patch was good to commit.

Escape HTML in RSS Feeds (#6990) @djpaulgibbs noted that this is a new issue but won’t block Beta 1 and left comments in ticket. Update: @djpaulgibbs has committed fix to trunk.

Can’t set ‘Text size’ in Email Customizer (#7041) Update: @dcavins has committed fix to trunk.

@mentions break instagram oembeds if same username exists on site as instagram (#7084) @djpaulgibbs and @johnjamesjacoby have comments in ticket. @boonebgorges is also looking into this. Update: @dcavins has moved this ticket to upcoming BP 2.5.4.

PHP Notice in Customizer (#7086) Issue when entering the email preview pane in the Customizer. Update: @djpaulgibbs has committed fix to trunk.

Groups: Replace `BP_Group_Member` static method DB queries with updated group membership functions (#7078) Update: @rayisme has committed this enhancement to trunk.

xprofile_updated_profile actions pass different args (#7049) @dcavins will review patch submitted by nickmomrik. Update: @dcavins has committed fix to trunk.

Administrator not able to delete user notifications (#7023) @rayisme has revised patch. Update: The fix has been committed to trunk.

“Full name” field setting doesn’t work on non-primary blog admin in multiblog mode (#7003) Ticket has been punted to Future Release.

Emails: real unsubscribe functionality (#6932) @djpaugibbs will review patch this weekend. Update: New patch uploaded.

BuddyPress Embeds for activity, user profiles, groups (#6772)@rayisme and @im4th have updated patches. Update: New feature has been committed to trunk.

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1464202837003779

#4824, #5757, #6370, #6431, #6683, #6719, #6772, #6932, #6990, #7000, #7003, #7023, #7041, #7049, #7078, #7083, #7084, #7086, #dev-chat

General Summaries for May 11, 2016

This post covers the BP Template Pack meeting @ 18:00 UTC and Dev Chat @ 19:00 UTC along with the upcoming BP 2.5.3 and BP 2.6.0 releases.

BP Template Pack

Participants: @dcavins, @im4th, @hnla, and @mercime.

• @im4th: created a new ticket for the Activity post form for the new Template Pack currently hosted on Github
• @hnla: added some preliminary notes in the Template Pack Wiki
• @im4th:  already using Ajax actions returning JSON replies.
• @hnla: requested that for this new pack or new templates, “please, please, no mention of backpat as it concerns us not, it’s a dirty word and we don’t suffer it for this project.”
• @dcavins: we should focus on the Messages screen and the Activity Post form for next week.
• @im4th: with this new template pack, an important thing will be to check we’re accessibility-ready and include this in the roadmap.
• @mercime: a new Template Pack Trac Ticket for good fortune when ready.
• @dcavins proposed a weekly meeting to step up discussions. This was seconded by the other participants.

Next meeting: Wednesday, May 18, same time (18:00 UTC), same #buddypress Slack channel (Slack account is required).

Dev Chat

developer.buddypress.org (#6812) @tw2113 has set up a sample site at https://trexthepirate.com/buddypress/reference/ to get things rolling. @djpaulgibbs: “Once the theme is done and any custom plugins, Boone, John, or I will code review it, and push it out. We’ll then need to talk to meta and figure out how to run the initial import or parsing.” @djpaulgibbs created a new repository in Github at https://github.com/buddypress/developer.buddypress.org and @tw2113 has already uploaded a local copy for review.

A new API to manage single items navigation (#6534) Update: @boonebgorges has committed the awesome new nav API which replaces the old `bp_nav` and `bp_options_nav` system to trunk the day after the chat. Check out his illuminating commit message for particulars. This commit also fixes another trac ticket (#5103 Group slug and user’s subnav parent_slug trouble).

Group Types API (#6784) @boonebgorges got the consensus to ship the new Group Types API without a UI in the front end for the first release.  Update: @dcavins has uploaded the patch to add a metabox in the wp-admin Group edit screen for changing group type per discussion in chat.

BP Users front.php (#6769) @im4th followed up on feedback for his patch. @hnla said that he will be looking at this. Update: @hnla has posted feedback and @im4th has uploaded a new patch.

Emails: Passing an email address to `bp_send_mail()` does not render `{recipient.name}` token (#7044) @rayisme has patch and unit tests. @djpaulgibbs has posted feedback and mentioned during chat that this would probably go into BP 2.5.3.

Emails: Allow a custom `unsubscribe` token to be set directly in `bp_send_email()` (#7045) @rayisme noted that this ticket can be closed in favor of #6932 (Emails: real unsubscribe functionality).

BuddyPress Embeds for activity, user profiles, groups (#6772) @im4th mentioned that there are problems with iframe within iframe, i.e., when one embeds a video in the activity stream then embed this activity in a post.

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#5103, #6534, #6769, #6772, #6784, #6812, #6932, #7044, #7045, #buddypress

General Summaries for April 27 – May 4, 2016

This post covers the following meetings:
1. BP Template Pack on April 27 @ 18:00 UTC,
2. Dev Chat Summary on April 27 @ 19:00 UTC, and
3. Dev Chat Summary on May 4 @ 19:00 UTC.

BP Template Pack Meeting

Participants: @dcavins, @hnla, @im4th, and @mercime

• @im4th: will open a new task about the activity post form to summarize what he has in mind so that we can discuss it.
• @mercime: Google spreadsheets with screenshots of pages with current UI and how we would address each one of the component pages … then attach images of screens addressed in the next-template-pack for comparison
• @hnla: has a draft of basic outline on bpdevel (not for publication at this time).
• Use the Github repo Wiki pages for documentation
• Review some wireframes made by @karmatosed in 2012 which already have feedback from the community as shown in BP Trac, bpdevel, and Github. We have to decide whether any of those can still be used or whether it would be better to make new wireframes.
• Process: Discovery -> Design -> Development -> Launch.

Next meeting: Wednesday, May 11, same time (18:00 UTC), same #buddypress channel in Slack.

Dev Chat, April 27

A new API to manage single items navigation (#6534) @im4th has patch. Dev feedback requested. “The patch is replacing nav arrays with a new class. and make sure the nav is attached to an item ID. The user id for the displayed user nav or the group ID for the current group. Group nav and displayed user nav are separated – meaning there are no more slug collisions.” @boonebgorges and @im4th had a long discussion on the implementation in this Slack log. @im4th and @rayisme have uploaded patches after the meeting.

BP Users front.php (#6769) Kudos to @im4th from @rayisme and @boonebgorges for the mystery group avatar. @dcavins and @hnla said that they will test the patch and post feedback.

Dev Chat, May 4

A new API to manage single items navigation (#6534) @boonebgorges will be checking out the progress and at “how much we need to support old ways of reaching into the `bp_nav` and `bp_options_nav` globals and spending some time formalizing the various compatibility breaks with unit tests” Update: @boonebgorges has uploaded a new patch with unit tests.

BP Users front.php (#6769) @im4th has patch. Positive feedback during dev chat, testing welcome.

Audit all DB fetch methods to return integers where appropriate (#6977) @rayisme has patch. Work on this is about 90% done.

bp_send_email function not working with numeric string for $to argument (#7042) Will leave decision of ticket status to @djpaulgibbs.

BuddyPress Embeds for activity, user profiles, groups (#6772) @rayisme requested feedback on the display of the embeds in the template as well as the embeds template. Update: @mercime has posted feedback and @im4th has uploaded revised patch.

Screen notifications settings page (#6712) @rayisme: “I need to refresh #6712. @djpaulgibbs‘ feedback in the ticket was quite helpful for future iterations. I’m not sure if this can make 2.6 or not.”

Use WP page names for BP directory pages headings (#6765) Discussion between @hnla, @johnjamesjacoby, @im4th, and @boonebgorges resulted in the decision that this enhancement would require an migration for existing installations when they upgrade while new installations will get the shorter page names.

BuddyPress Style Modules: @hnla has provided the example one so it’s clear how they work and are formatted etc. at https://github.com/hnla/style-modules/tree/master/members-list-module. Update: A new Style Modules repo has been added to the BuddyPress account at https://github.com/buddypress/style-modules

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1461780248000496

#6534, #6765, #6769, #6772, #6977, #7042, #buddypress, #dev-chat