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 for July 20 & 27, 2016

BuddyPress 2.6.2

• Release date: TBA
• There are currently 7 tickets in queue (3 closed. 4 open).
• 404 errors when using HHVM on BP 2.6.1.1 (#7197) @rayisme has patch.
• BP no longer filters wp_mail_from_name when using wp_mail() (#7024) @djpaulgibbs has patch. Might close this ticket.
• @mentions break instagram oembeds if same username exists on site as instagram (#7084) needs patch.
• Unit tests failing on PHP 7.0.9 (#7204) needs patch.

BP 2.7 Trac Tickets

Implement user capabilities for Activity component (#7176) @djpaulgibbs has patch. Feedback requested.

Groups: Draft, Locked or Suspended status (#6677) @dcavins has patch. Feedback requested.

Single items for the Blogs component (#6026) @im4th has patches. Feedback requested.

Hierarchical groups (#3961) @dcavins has patch. Feedback requested.

Components: BuddyPress.org Sites There are a number of tickets in Trac which need to be double-checked if the issues are still valid. If it is and you want to patch it up:
go svn co http://meta.svn.wordpress.org/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/,
create the patch, and upload the patch to the appropriate BP trac ticket.

Slack logs:
July 20: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1469041213000135
July 27: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1469646028000542

#3961, #6026, #6677, #7024, #7084, #7176, #7197, #7204, #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