Dev Chat Summary for June 8, 2016

BuddyPress 2.6.0

• Release Candidate 1 (string freeze): June 15, 2016
• 2.6.0 release: June 22, 2016
• There are currently 106 tickets in queue (Closed: 103. Open: 3.)

Trac Tickets

A new API to manage single items navigation (#6534) Issue on backward compatibility with groups navigation. Update: @boonebgorges has committed fix to trunk.

Activity link moderation doesn’t output useful error message to end users (#6719) @rayisme will be making a string change. Update: @rayisme has committed the fix to trunk.

Welcome Screen for 2.6.0 (#7108)
* Activity embeds will be the main feature of the About page. A short video will be embedded for WP 4.5+ installations and an image for installations less than WP 4.5. @im4th was volunteered to make the video. Update: @im4th has uploaded a patch.
* Other items to be featured included the new Group Types API and Custom Users Front Page
* In the midst of testing the Activity embeds feature for the About page, @tw2113 found a bug. Update: @im4th created a new ticket and he and @rayisme have uploaded patches to fix the issue.
* In addition, the WP icon was seen in BuddyPress.org’s activity embeds. @im4th pointed out that a ready-to-use BuddyPress icon exists on the “official fonts and logos” page. Update: @djpaulgibbs has uploaded the icon.
* “Under the Hood” section: New API to manage single items (Member or Group) navigation, various caching improvements, among other items.

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1465412393000100

#6534, #6719, #7108, #dev-chat

Dev Chat Summary for June 1, 2016

BuddyPress 2.6.0 Beta 1

@dcavins packaged and released BuddyPress 2.6.0 Beta last Wednesday, June 1, 2016. Please help us test the exciting new features like the new API for Member/Group navigation, Activity embeds, Group Types API, and more!

BuddyPress 2.6.0 Schedule

• Release Candidate 1 (string freeze): June 15, 2016
• BuddyPress 2.6.0 release: June 22, 2016.
• As of this post, there are 101 tickets in queue (Closed: 98. Open: 3.).

Trac Tickets

Companion Stylesheet – Twentyten and Twentyeleven (#7000) Kept open for any revision in stylesheet.

Add a “data-timestamp” attribute to all templates requiring timestamps (#5757) @rayisme needs more time to address localization issue. Update: This has been punted to BP 2.7.0.

Need to clear user cache after running direct query to update user displayname (#7050) Update: @djpaulgibbs has committed fix to trunk.

Activity link moderation doesn’t output useful error message to end users (#6719) Positive reviews during dev chat. Update: @rayisme has committed fix to trunk.

Use WP page names for BP directory pages headings (#6765) @boonebgorges would like to spend more time on the migration routine. “I think we’d been waiting for rewrite rules, but actually, we could build the UI first,” noted @boonebgorges. Update: This has been punted to Future Release.

Extract & relocate core markup functions: Theme compat include functionality & search forms file (#6844) Needed OK from Lead Dev. Update: Ticket has been punted to BP 2.7.0.

Emails: real unsubscribe functionality (#6932) Update: Ticket has been punted to BP 2.7.0.

Add a global scope option to the BP taxonomy wrapper functions (#7077) Ticket was reopened. @boonebgorges will take a look at it during Beta. Update: He has committed fixes to trunk.

oembed activity review (#7104) @rayisme has been committing fixes per review. Update: All review items have been fixed in trunk.

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1464807686004763

#5757, #6719, #6765, #6844, #6932, #7000, #7050, #7077, #7104, #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

Dev Chat Summary for March 30, 2016

BuddyPress 2.5.2

@dcavins,  release lead for BP 2.6.0, packaged and released BuddyPress 2.5.2 on Thursday, March 31. This fixes some email issues reported in trac and forums.

BuddyPress 2.6.0 Schedule

• Beta 1: May 25, 2016
• Release Candidate 1 (string freeze): June 8, 2016
• Target Release Date: June 15, 2016
• There are 95 tickets slated for 2.6.0 to date. Forty-seven of 79 tickets still open have patches.

Weekly Meeting Time

Join us every Wednesday at 19:00 UTC at the #buddypress channel on Slack. @djpaulgibbs encouraged anyone who wants “to participate in these meetings but can’t always make it can leave comments in Slack beforehand” or in posts here at bpdevel.

For newcomers, here’s how to get a WordPress/Slack account.

BuddyPress Work Parties née Bug Fixin’

A friendly reminder from @dcavins re invitation to a party on Slack or Trac  to fix ’em bugs this coming Tuesday, April 5 and Thursday, April 14. 🙂

2.6.0 Scoping/Wishlist

BP REST-API. @dcavins followed up on the status of this project, i.e., whether we can work on this or should this hold until WP API gets sorted. @djpaulgibbs noted that “WP API ​is​ sorted. You/we can work on it now.”

BP Style Modules – A Proposal. @dcavins asked for more information about the proposal. @hnla: “Style modules is an additional enhancement for templates, more for engaging the community and providing a means to add small code blocks, similar in the way frameworks offer them sometimes.” @boonebgorges and @hnla later exchanged a series of enlightening comments about some of the details of @hnla‘s proposal.

A new API to manage single items navigation (#6534) @boonebgorges passes baton to @im4th to save this ticket from oblivion. @im4th brought up the issue of an upgrade routine to implement this feature which requires Framework for bulk data handling after updates (#6841).

Incrementor-based caching for ID queries (#6643) @boonebgorges is looking to implement this for at least one component during 2.6.

Accessibility tickets. @mercime will be working on the ones already in trac and will be adding some more later.

Explore Behat to add a functional testing capability to the project. @djpaulgibbs‘ dream is look into adding a functional testing capability to the project. “I don’t know if this is something that we’ll want, but I need to build it before I can convince everyone.”

New bp-template pack @djpaulgibbs is trying to come up with a plan to answer the never-ending questions around if/when BuddyPress will ever get a new one. “I’ve started with asking about eight of you some questions around that. It’s going to be a lot of work to come up with some kind of plan. I got essay-length replies from everyone and each reply is vastly different. Everyone has a very different opinion. I think some goal-setting needs to occur before we are able to write new templates with 100% buy-in from everyone, but it’s still early days and I reserve the right to change that opinion.”

Group Types API (#6784) @boonebgorges mentioned that it would be good to make headway on this ticket. Ping @mamaduka

2016 BuddyPress Survey (#6792) @mercime will conduct this year’s survey after the April 15 tax day.

Activity link moderation doesn’t output useful error message to end users (#6719) @rayisme has made some headway on better error messages in the activity stream. “Question is should we be holding off on this for an activity_status DB column.” @boonebgorges noted that  the “main issue would be documenting that select * from $bp->activity->table_name queries will have to be adjusted accordingly.”

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1459364425000688

#6534, #6643, #6719, #6784, #6792, #6841, #buddypress, #dev-chat

Dev Chat Summary for March 16, 2016

Last week’s meeting focused on reviewing trac tickets slated for BP 2.6.0 which already had patches uploaded.

Activity link moderation doesn’t output useful error message to end users (#6719) @rayisme requested feedback on custom error handling for the activity stream using WP_Error. “Would love it if @hnla could test the patch in 6719 and see if that addresses the points in #6822″

Suspension of BP comment moderation functionality (#6822) @rayisme wrote about removing the activity moderation feature entirely.

Simplify CSS targeting of radio and checkbox label fields (#6678) @dcavins thanked all for the feedback in trac to change markup to use fieldsets/legends for some profile fields in the front end.
Action: Patch changing the markup has been committed to trunk during the meeting.

Avoid using HTML tags in translation strings (#6898 through #6911) @djpaulgibbs had some concerns about whether the proposed changes would make the strings harder to translate and asked @boonebgorges for his opinion on the tickets.
Update: Boone has committed most of the patches to trunk.

Accessibility: Bump headings in template files (#6875 through #6882) @djpaulgibbs, @hnla, @rayisme, and @mercime had a long discussion about the merits and challenges of updating template files to meet accessibility guidelines. There were concerns that changing them (headings) might cause angst to developers needing to make the changes to established themes and regular users will be posting in our forums. There was a proposal to roll the accessibility updates in a new bp-template pack. @rayisme added, “Let’s roll with the accessibility changes and be ultra-aggressive with the heading styling so bp-legacy CSS rules take precedence.”  @mercime commented that committing the updates early in the 2.6 dev cycle will allow ~ 3 months for developers to update themes.  Accessible BP templates are the way to go forward. @djpaulgibbs: “We need to do these. We also need to get the companion stylesheets updated for these changes (if/as necessary). Let’s post on bpdevel once the changes are in. We can contact the major BP theme builders in advance. ”
Action: First batch of new heading updates have been committed to trunk after the meeting.

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1458158441000061

#6678, #6719, #6875, #6882, #6898, #6911, #dev-chat