Hi contributors,
We’ve just published the first beta version of BuddyPress 6.0.0. Feel free to test it and help us polish our next major release 😍
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BP Dev Chat Agenda for March 25, 2020
Hi!
Next dev-chat is scheduled this Wednesday (March 25) at 19:00 UTC. As usual it will happen in #BuddyPress. We will discuss about :
- The BuddyPress 2020 survey,
- Progress about the 6.0.0 main features (we’ll be a few days away from first beta release 😱),
- Open floor.
Reminder, 6.0.0 schedule is:
- First beta at the end of march.
- Final release at the end of April.
If you have anything you wish to add (or remove) to this agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.
BP Dev Chat Agenda for March 11, 2020
Hi!
Next dev-chat is scheduled this Wednesday (March 11) at 19:00 UTC. As usual it will happen in #BuddyPress. We will discuss about :
- The BuddyPress 2020 survey,
- Progress about the 6.0.0 main features (we’ll be 2 weeks away from first beta release 😱),
- Open floor.
Reminder, 6.0.0 schedule is:
- First beta at the end of march.
- Final release at the end of April.
If you have anything you wish to add (or remove) to this agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.
BP Dev Chat Summary: February 26, 2020
- See previously BP Dev Chat summary (February 12, 2020)
- In attendance: @dcavins @espellcaste & @im4th
- Slack archive
6.0.0 Progress
@espellcaste shared about the work he’s been doing about improving the BP REST API (activity scope, member type, group type, friendship). The last issue we need to deal with is the Blogs Avatar endpoint (2 unit tests are failing mysteriously). @im4th will give it a second look before next dev-chat.
@dcavins & @im4th didn’t find the time to work on #8139 & #8048 😬
@im4th shared about his wish to solve two tickets (#8156 & #8172) asap to inform the BuddyPress contributors early about the introduced changes. They are now solved, so please make sure to have a look at these 2 posts:
- BuddyPress 6.0.0 will require at least PHP 5.6
- The profile photo & cover image features belong to Members
BuddyPress Survey
- @im4th reminded everyone to have a look at the questions @mercime worked on.
Open floor
@im4th asked if anyone had an opportunity to look at GitHub actions to see if this was a way to ease the release packaging process. If a BuddyPress contributor could explore it, he’d be very happy 😍
@espellcaste asked about the status #5525 : the testing site is still open for review, but @im4th already found some issues about o2 as soon as it’s not used on the home page of the site. He will work on a fix about it.
@espellcaste shared his worries about the meta ticket related to the BP GraphQL handbook creation for the developer.buddypress.org site. @im4th is confident it will be fixed soon 🤗
6.0.0 schedule & main features
- Schedule:
- First beta at the end of march.
- Final release at the end of April.
- Main Features:
- BP REST API remaining endpoints
- BP Blocks ✅
- Network invitation & Membership requests
- & maybe some surprises!
Next dev chat
It will happen on March 11 at 19:00 UTC ( ~ 2 weeks before first beta 🙄) and of course in #BuddyPress. If you have ideas or questions, feel free (and we are strongly encouraging you) to comment this summary to share them!
BP Dev Chat Agenda for February 12, 2020
Hi!
Next dev-chat is scheduled to tomorrow: January 29 at 19:00 UTC. As usual it will happen in #BuddyPress. We will discuss about :
- The BuddyPress 2020 survey,
- Progress about the 6.0.0 main features,
- Open floor.
Reminder, 6.0.0 schedule is:
- First beta at the end of march.
- Final release at the end of April.
If you have anything you wish to add (or remove) to this agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.
BP Dev Chat Summary: January 29, 2020
- See previously BP Dev Chat summary (January 15, 2020)
- In attendance: @mercime @dcavins & @im4th
- Slack archive
BuddyPress Survey
@mercime asked for the questions we’d like to include for this new version of the survey (see #8153). In other words, what do we need to know from BuddyPress users to help us in our decisions?
- We agreed we need to keep questions from previous surveys to be able to compare results.
- Knowing which components are mostly used should help us to validate/improve the activation process. How could we improve/facilitate the BuddyPress setup process?
- We’d like to know how people choose to “display” BuddyPress content. Are they using a regular WordPress Theme with a template pack (and which one? Legacy or Nouveau?), are they using a BuddyPress standalone theme like BP Default ?
- We need to evaluate the idea of including a new full featured BuddyPress Theme.
- @im4th shared his wish to know what approach people prefer between BuddyPress bundled optional components Vs optional components as plugins (see #8148). @mercime noted that, in previous surveys, people usually ask to bundle new optional components or to include BuddyPress plugins into Core.
We shared some other potential questions during the meeting (What are you using BuddyPress for? Would you be willing to switch to a BP Specific Theme? What are must have customizations? What are the every BuddyPress installs components?…), @mercime will work on a first pass of the 2020 survey so that we can discuss about it during our next dev-chat.
New day of week for our dev-chat?
@im4th thanked again the members of the team who gave their preferences into the Doodle poll. We have a first important information: 19:00 UTC will stay our time of meeting. We are now waiting for @espellcaste preference about the day between these possible ones: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday?
6.0.0 Progress
@im4th began to talk about the many PHP/JavaScript code standards patches that has been submitted by new contributors such as Passionate, WPAmitkumar, Mukesh27. Thanks a lot for your work and feel free to carry on helping us.
@dcavins is making good progress about Network invites and membership requests and is confident this feature will land into the 6.0.0 release.
@im4th shared his progress about BP Blocks and thanked @karmatosed for her great help contributing to design sketches of the single Member and single Group blocks. BuddyPress 6.0.0 will include these 2 blocks. Here are 3 early screenshots of what could look like the Member one.
6.0.0 schedule & main features
- Schedule:
- First beta at the end of march.
- Final release at the end of April.
- Main Features:
- BP REST API remaining endpoints
- BP Blocks
- Network invitation & Membership requests
- & maybe some surprises!
Next dev chat
It will happen next week on February 12 at 19:00 UTC (unless @espellcaste informs us about his preferred day 😉soon) and of course in #BuddyPress.
PS: if you have ideas or questions, feel free (and we are strongly encouraging you) to comment this summary to share them!
BP Dev Chat Agenda for January 29, 2020
Hi!
Next dev-chat is scheduled to tomorrow: January 29 at 19:00 UTC. As usual it will happen in #BuddyPress. We will discuss about :
- The BuddyPress 2020 survey,
- First results about the doodle we organized to change the dev-chat day/time. (@espellcaste will share his preferences as soon as he’s back from his current afk status 🤗)
- Progress about the 6.0.0 main features we agreed on last dev-chat,
- Open floor.
Reminder, 6.0.0 schedule is:
- First beta at the end of march.
- Final release at the end of April.
If you have anything you wish to add (or remove) to this agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.
