BP 2.7 Kickoff Meeting – July 13, 2016

Project Schedule

• July 13, 2016 – Kickoff – scoping/wishlist
• September 21, 2016 – Beta 1
• October 5, 2016 – Release Candidate 1 (string freeze)
• October 12, 2016 – Target release date for BuddyPress 2.7

Release Lead for BuddyPress 2.8

Slava Abakumov (twitter) has been translating BuddyPress to Russian since October 2008 (long before the very first beta) and has submitted many BuddyPress plugins to the WordPress repository. He is a doting father, developer, and project manager, who also enjoys road-cycling and roller-skating. His motto is “Be good, have fun, create things”.

Congratulations @slaffik! 🙂

BuddyPress Leads in the Windy City

Watch out Chicago! @johnjamesjacoby, @boonebgorges, and @djpaulgibbs will be spending some time together at an undisclosed location in the city this Monday, July 18. 🙂

bbPress 2.5.10

bbPress 2.5.10 was packaged and released by @johnjamesjacoby Wednesday, July 13. This was a security release so please upgrade if you haven’t already.

Navigation API in Codex

@boonebgorges has posted a new article about the new Navigation API. Check out all the examples to help you with customizations.

BP 2.7 Scoping/Wishlist

BLOGS

• Blogs single items (#6026) @im4th

CORE

• Accessibility fixes for BP Admin screens and templates @mercime
• Widget for logged-in user Notifications used in wp-toolbar (#7183)

DOCUMENTATION

• developer.buddypress.org (#6812) @tw2113

GROUPS

• Admin UI for Group Types (#7179) (#7180) @tw2113, @mercime
• Add basic support for hierarchical groups (#3961) @dcavins
• Groups: Draft, Locked or Suspended status (#6677) @dcavins
• Get group type integration on the frontend @rayisme

MEMBERS

• Admin UI for New Member Type (#7181) (#7182) @tw2113, @mercime

REST API – @boonebgorges and @rayisme

TEMPLATES

• Extract & relocate core markup functions @hnla

TOOLBAR AND NOTIFICATIONS

• Screen notifications settings page (#6712) @rayisme
• Notifications widget (#7183) @mercime

Though not mentioned during dev chat, following are a few of many interesting tickets which you might like to contribute to or kibitz about:

• Merge BuddyPress Followers into BuddyPress Core (#7133)
• UI to pick Template Packs (#7157)
• Admin UI options for all template features (#7160)
• Add #hashtag auto-suggest (#7165)

Slack log: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/buddypress/p1468436417003180
(Slack account is required)

#3961, #6026, #6677, #6712, #6812, #7133, #7157, #7160, #7165, #7179, #7180, #7181, #7182, #7183, #dev-chat