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 Summary for August 25, 2016

Trac Tickets

Date xprofile field enhancement (#5500) @boonebgorges has patch and sought feedback for:
a) modeling settings data on ⁠⁠⁠⁠BP_XProfile_Field⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠_Type⁠⁠⁠⁠ — @djpaulgibbs “It would be nice to pass the data to it to handle, if possible, rather than have to touch a global.”
b) what do we think of interface for date ranges? — @djpaulgibbs “The UI is nice”. @rayisme “I’m trying to figure out the use case for relative ranges”. @mercime reported a bug.

Extract & relocate core markup functions: Theme compat include functionality & search forms file (#6844) Feedback sought. @boonebgorges has assigned it to himself for review.

Select All link missing in BuddyPress Menu Selection (#5260) Testing needed for this to be committed.

Implement user capabilities for Activity component (#7176) @djpaulgibbs “I’m hopeful someone can come in and drop a knowledge bomb” (roles and capabilities). @boonebgorges has added this ticket to his review list 🙂 @rayisme informed us that he created WP trac ticket “that would probably make dynamic caps easier to implement – https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32316.”

Fatal error – Call to undefined function wp_generate_password() in bp-core\bp-core-options.php on line 77 (#7227) @rayisme has patch. Dev feedback needed.

@mentions break instagram oembeds if same username exists on site as instagram (#7084) @websupporter has dug deep into the Instagram issue and posted results of his research. Feedback requested.

Group type frontend integration (#7210) @rayisme has a second patch which includes some new parameters to bp_groups_register_group_type() and which will allow theme devs or site admins to show group types in front end. @boonebgorges “Just browsing the patch, but looks great at a glance. I like the params as a way of controlling the behavior.”

BuddyPress 2.7

• September 21 – Beta 1
• October 5 – Release Candidate 1 (string freeze)
• October 12 – Target Release date
• There are currently 91 tickets in queue (47 closed, 44 open).

#dev-chat

#5260, #5500, #6844, #7084, #7176, #7210, #7227

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