Meeting Summary Feb 25, 2010 Agenda: * S…

Meeting Summary Feb 25, 2010

Agenda:

  • Sprint status
  • Woo Menus update
  • Merge update
  • Schedule update
  • Multi-site configuration implementation

Summary:

  • Sprint Status. Lots of patches being committed. Can always use more patches and more testing. Do it by Monday or hold your peace until next cycle for enhancements and feature requests.
  • Menus, janewells. Coming along nicely in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision.. The UIUI User interface looks more like a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party than coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., so changes listed on wpdevelwpdevel Formerly the development updates P2 blog at wpdevel.wordpress.com. It is now make/core and resides at make.wordpress.org/core. being worked on. AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) will be worked on after freeze. pthdnbr, filosofo and dremeda offered to tackle accessibility.Jane will make tickets for items in the wpdevel post.
  • Merge update, wpmuguru and rboren. Patches, patches and more patches.
  • Schedule update. On track for March 1 freeze.
  • Non-agenda topic: hakre brought up test suite. Core devs agreed patches are top priority until freeze, and test suite can be looked at after freeze.
  • Multi-site configuration implementation, westi. Suggested a code change from constant to filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output., wpmuguru agreed along with others in chat. See chat transcript for specific code snippets. Westi pondering doing it for AUTOSAVE/TRASHTrash Trash in WordPress is like the Recycle Bin on your PC or Trash in your Macintosh computer. Users with the proper permission level (administrators and editors) have the ability to delete a post, page, and/or comments. When you delete the item, it is moved to the trash folder where it will remain for 30 days. intervals as well.

Shortest meeting ever.