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 May 18, 2016

BuddyPress 2.5.3

• The 5 tickets slated for this release are ready to go.
• Release Schedule: @johnjamesjacoby, @djpaulgibbs, and @boonebgorges will be coordinating this next week.

BuddyPress 2.6.0

• Beta 1: May 25, 2016
• Release Candidate 1 (string freeze): June 8, 2016
• Release Date: June 15, 2016
• There are currently 91 tickets slated for this dev cycle. (Closed: 70. Active: 21.)

Trac Tickets

Route /me/*/ to /members//*/ (#6325) @rayisme has patch and has created a new ticket (#7075) for the internationalization patch. Update: @rayisme has committed this feature to trunk.

BuddyPress Embeds for activity, user profiles, groups (#6772) @im4th noted the security concerns about the embedded embeds. @rayisme: “The right way is to dynamically replace the image with the embedded content. However, the WP model makes this hard since we start in an IFRAME to begin with.” @im4th mentioned that he was going to test the new patch. Update: @rayisme and @im4th have uploaded new patches.

Activity post form template improvements (#6680) @dcavins had posted screenshots after testing @rayisme‘s patch on the WP default and some premium themes. @boonebgorges: “It looks like the specific improvements in the ticket do break some things, so let’s not do it right now. But maybe we can revisit for the next release.” Update: Ticket punted to next dev cycle.

Administrator not able to delete user notifications (#7023) @rayisme requested dev feedback. @boonebgorges: “The change to `displayed` rather than `loggedin` seems right. It’s what we do everywhere else. If you need to add a param to all functions to make it work, so be it. Strategy seems fine.” @djpaulgibbs: “to my eyes that looks like it’s an in-progress ticket that I don’t need to pay much attention because I trust the people (Ray and David) working on it 🙂 “

Notifications: Pass the notification ID to the notification callback (#7066) @rayisme has patch but requires patch in (#7067) to resolve the issue. @boonebgorges gave the green light. Update: @rayisme has committed both to trunk.

Improved caching for group membership (#6327) @boonebgorges will look into this. In addition: “I commend @dcavins for pulling that into the milestone. Now I feel obligated to look at it. A quality of a good release lead :+1: ” Update: @boonebgorges has improvements to trunk.

Emails: real unsubscribe functionality (#6932) @djpaulgibbs wants to get this in for 2.6 and will take a look at progress early next week.

Date xprofile field enhancement (#5500) @boonebgorges and @djpaulgibbs discussed the patch and missing feedback from reporter. Update: Ticket punted to next dev cycle.

Add a “data-timestamp” attribute to all templates requiring timestamps (#5757) The discussion between @rayisme, @im4th, @boonebgorges, and @djpaulgibbs touched on the 2 new libraries introduced for this new feature – moment.js and livestamp.js – and who has the time to shepherd this for 2.6.0. Update: @rayisme has uploaded revised patch.

Blogs: Improvements to bp_blogs_record_existing_blogs() (#6270) @rayisme is ready to commit patch in ticket.

Widgets: add support for customizer selective refresh (#7030) Update: @rayisme has committed patch to trunk.

Creation of developer.buddypress.org (#6812) @tw2113 reported that he has uploaded everything he has locally to https://github.com/buddypress/developer.buddypress.org. @tw2113 and @djpaulgibbs discussed the items needed to update the theme for developer.buddypress.org.

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1463598018002648

#5500, #5757, #6270, #6325, #6327, #6680, #6772, #6812, #6932, #7023, #7030, #7066, #7067, #7075, #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.

Upcoming Releases

BuddyPress 2.5.3

• There are currently 5 tickets slated. (Closed: 2. Active: 3.)
• Release Date: TBA

BuddyPress 2.6.0

• There are currently 95 tickets slated for this dev cycle. (Closed: 56. Active: 39.)
• Beta 1: May 25, 2016
• Release Candidate 1 (string freeze): June 8, 2016
• Release Date: June 15, 2016

#dev-chat

#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

Dev Chat Summary for January 6, 2016

The first dev chat of the year focused on the 2.5.0 release scope. There are currently 104 tickets slated for  this dev cycle: 22 closed and 82 active. The following were mentioned during dev chat (major features have asterisks).

API

*BuddyPress Embeds for activity, user profiles, groups (#6772) @rayisme and @im4th work on ensuring that nested embeds show up as well as preventing embeds from breaking layout, among others.

*Create New Invitations API (#6210) @dcavins has written a bunch of tests for this feature in the last two releases. He’s currently working on the actual code changes and it’s going pretty well. Ultimately, he mentioned he’d like nearly all of the  features of Boone’s Invite Anyone plugin to be rolled in.

*A new API to manage single items navigation (#6534) @boonebgorges

*Email API and customisation features (#6592) @djpaulgibbs will be ready for review in a week or so. He has done lots of work on it and has recently posted an extensive technical update in ticket.

*Group Types API (#6784) @boonebgorges

BLOGS

*Comment syncing between activity and post comments for Custom Post Types (#6482) @im4th has patch which ready for  review/testing.

CORE

Use WP page names for BP directory pages headings (#6765) @hnla

Hooks Documentation Continued @tw2113

GROUPS

Add function to send single invitation (#6025) @dcavins is working on this in relation to the main ticket (#6210) Invitations API above.

NOTIFICATIONS

Comment notification NOT notified (#6057) @im4th will refresh the patch next week.

Screen notifications settings page (#6712) @rayisme

TEMPLATE PARTS

*Companion Stylesheet – Twenty Twelve (#6766) @hnla has committed the first pass of the SASS and compiled CSS files.

BP Users front.php (#6769) @hnla

XPROFILES

*xProfile fielddata visibility should be stored in xprofilemeta (#6413) @boonebgorges has the patch written, “just some work to do on making the migration routine less insane.”

*xProfile fields used for signup should be configurable (#6347) @johnjamesjacoby

xProfile field database schema (#6350) @johnjamesjacoby

BUDDYPRESS.ORG

*developer.buddypress.org (#5129) @tw2113 is working on the parser

GENERAL – ADMIN/UI

Accessibility Upgrades Continued @mercime

FOR NEXT WEEK:

1. REST API
2. “Social Network” vs. “Community Software” marketing direction

#5129, #6025, #6057, #6347, #6350, #6413, #6482, #6534, #6592, #6712, #6765, #6766, #6769, #6772, #6784, #dev-chat

General Summary as of December 23, 2015

This is a compilation of dev chats held in December 2nd, 9th, and 16th. There was no official dev chat last Dec. 23, we just had some BP Holiday fun.

Minor Releases

• 2.4.3 – packaged and released by @im4th
• 2.4.2 – packaged and released by @johnjamesjacoby

BuddyPress 2.4.4

• There are currently two tickets in queue.
• Release date: January 2016

BuddyPress 2.5.0

• BP Beta 1: February 8, 2016
• BP RC 1 (string freeze): February 22, 2016
• BP 2.5.0 Target Release Date: March 2, 2016

Feature scope continued from last November 25:

Email API and customisation features (#6592) @djpaulgibbs reported Things are going well with the new feature.

Comment syncing between activity and post comments for Custom Post Types (#6482) @im4th will try to update patch and write unit tests.

Screen notifications settings page (#6712) @rayisme

Accessibility Improvements Part 2 (has tickets) @mercime

developer.buddypress.org @tw2113 has started work on the parser and fixing errors.

Navigation API tweaks for single items (#6534) @boonebgorges will be working on this for the next 2 weeks.

Create New Invitations API (#6210) @dcavins will update patches. @boonebgorges will be working on this for the next 2 weeks.

BuddyPress Embeds for activity, user profiles, groups (#6772) @rayisme has started working on this. @im4th has given feedback on the ticket.

Companion Stylesheet – Twentytwelve (#6766) @hnla has uploaded the stylesheets to trunk. Feedback welcome.

BP Users front.php (#6769) @hnla

xprofile fielddata visibility should be stored in xprofilemeta (#6413) @boonebgorges

BP JSON REST API @modemloooper. @marmaduka has volunteered to help. @djpaulgibbs and @boonebgorges were in agreement that the project would go through some documentation/vision phases before starting to write code. The BP JSON REST API would be introduced into core when the feature is “complete”, i.e.,  all read-only endpoints or an entire component, etc. This will be built as a plugin first. @djpaulgibbs also suggested that the eventual BP REST API plugin/module/eventual core integration require modern PHP.

#6210, #6482, #6534, #6592, #6712, #6766, #6769, #6772, #dev-chat