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 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