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

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