Last night two big changes happened on WordPress.org:
- Ryan switched over all of the blogs to a single MS install. Given some like the dev blog go back (by definition) to before the first version of WordPress ever released, this is pretty impressive.
- Mike Adams upgraded the bbPress instances to the latest trunk version.
Things were wonky for a bit, but should be stable now.
scribu 4:11 pm on July 9, 2010 Permalink
Very nice!
One observation though: if the dev blog is now at wp.org/news, shouldn’t the menu link say ‘News’ instead of ‘Blog’?
Matt 4:13 pm on July 9, 2010 Permalink
Not sure about the name yet. What do you think?
Andrew Nacin 4:19 pm on July 9, 2010 Permalink
Still not convinced about “WordPress News” over “WordPress Blog.” I keep going back and forth. “News” seems too much like what planet is, and additionally, most companies, open source projects, etc. have a “Blog” (need I remind anyone we started as blogging software to boot
). Jane mentioned that the goal would be to have other blogs (this one, the UI blog, and other project and process blogs I imagine), but there’s The Mozilla Blog and plenty of other blogs they have as well.
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Xavier 11:48 am on July 10, 2010 Permalink
I’m all for keeping “/blog” myself, for pretty much the same reasons as Andrew.
Mark McWilliams 7:22 pm on July 10, 2010 Permalink
If you named it ”Official WordPress News” though, then you could still get away going down the /news/ route, it’d depend what the plan is for the rest of the site IMO? As in converting the whole thing to run on WordPress, including the homepage et all!
Jon Brown 4:45 am on July 12, 2010 Permalink
First, I’m liking the hiatus. It’s awesome to see all this stuff happening.
Second, I personally find blog by itself ambiguous, I’d vote for “News Blog”, “Code Blog”, etc… Or “Blogs” with a drop down to “News”, “Code”, etc…
Gautam 4:24 pm on July 9, 2010 Permalink
Great! There’s only 1 ticket left on bbPress 1.1 milestone (for which I’m preparing a patch), so any plans to release it soon?
Milan 10:17 pm on July 9, 2010 Permalink
I opened that ticket and since it is about email subscription, a feature that Matt made, I think that he needs to join discussion.
It is even more important now since trunk is on wp.org support forums and fixing this will enable users to finally have one of most requested features on wp.org forum: email subscription.
When it goes live, we can make a plugin which will enable automatic subscription to plugin authors when topic is tagged with their plugin. Etc.
Milan 5:53 pm on July 15, 2010 Permalink
This ticket is now closed since patch is committed. My detailed post about improvements: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/checkbox-for-e-mail-subscription-ideas-for-better-backend?replies=3#post-71113
Sergey Biryukov 9:17 pm on July 9, 2010 Permalink
There seems to be something wrong with the markup in the list of contributors from the WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” post (some unnecessary line breaks, one of which is right inside the link).
Xavier 11:50 am on July 10, 2010 Permalink
All these incremental upgrades did pay at the end, then!
Now, a question: what happened to the original /wp-images folder? Is is still there, or was all content folded into /wp-content once /wp-images became “deprecated”?
Also: how much sense would it make to have this very blog (wpdevel.wp.com) moved to a .org subdomain?
Matt 1:21 pm on July 10, 2010 Permalink
Could you post some examples?
Xavier 2:20 pm on July 10, 2010 Permalink
What are your refering to? Upgrades, /wp-images or subdomain?
Wild guess: subdomain. And make.wordpress.org/code seems just about right
Now when people say “it’s been mentionned on wpdevel”, we’ll now they mean the IRC channel and not the present blog 
“It’s been mentionned on the Code blog”. Nice. Or even “the Make.Code blog”
Matt 6:06 am on July 11, 2010 Permalink
The wp-images thing.
Xavier 1:57 pm on July 11, 2010 Permalink
Exemples of sites using /wp-images? Mine is one (and the reason why I yelled “yikes!” when I first heard 2.7′s core-update would get rid of that folder. Luckily, it’s been changed since).
I don’t use it per-se; currently all my file uploads are done using the in-WP tool, and therefore are neatly stacked within /wp-content/uploads. But my older posts do still rely on the content of /wp-images/uploads, which I kept using since as late as May 2008, out of habit.
Once I’m done with that pesky book update, I’d like to dive into coding a plugin that would move these files into /wp-content and update the articles along the way. Easier said than done, probably.
Matt 2:04 pm on July 11, 2010 Permalink
Sorry — I thought you had seen some broken links or images because of the switch. I searched for wp-images on the dev blog and didn’t find anything.
Andrew Nacin 2:07 pm on July 11, 2010 Permalink
Best I can tell — wp-images is now wp-includes/images, and has been for five years – r2813. When the upgrader was introduced in 2.7, ‘wp-images’ was added to the $old_files array in update-core.php. This ended up getting changed in r9594 however, because some individuals (such as yourself) used it for assets, though that apparently was not its intended use.
Xavier 3:47 pm on July 11, 2010 Permalink
@Matt: Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding.
@Andrew: I don’t remember why I started using /wp-images/uploads, but I don’t think I made that decision myself. I can’t tell for sure, but it was either a feature from WP back then (I started with 1.01 or 1.2, not sure), or of the importer I used (was using pMachine 2.3 until that point), or some online thing I read. Gn.
Tried to check with WP, but my test-install of 1.2 from last year now bugs on password retrieval, and I can’t finish the install locally. Oh well, will see about that l have more time on my hand.
*gets back to writing*
scribu 11:52 am on July 10, 2010 Permalink
wpdevel will be moved to make.wordpress.org/code
Xavier 11:58 am on July 10, 2010 Permalink
C’est super !
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