Team Update: Twenty Twelve
We are the team formerly known as “Twenty Twelve Two”—now three strong with Drew Strojny joining up for the 3.4 release cycle as the theme designer. Welcome Drew!
What we’re calling our “first cycle” ends today with Drew delivering us the first working prototype with the basic layout in place. Matt committed it with r19842. (See also #19978.)
Consider this version 0.5
This is not yet a fully working theme—we’ll be adding in more features and lots of missing styles over the next 3–4 weeks. Including post formats, comments, archives and page templates, more in-post styling, and a nav menu rework so the main content comes ahead of the navigation.
Our goal for the next cylcle is to finish up all the missing visual styles from Drew, with Lance making relevant code changes as needed. Deliverable is a finished theme that everyone can start using and testing in earnest.
Schedule notes
1. Due to schedule conflicts we need to be going slowly over the next week or two, picking it up again in earnest Feb 20–Feb 29.
2. Office hours will probably be on Mondays, I’ll post the actual times soon.
Update: We’ll end our cycle on Feb 29th.
Banago 12:22 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
How can I be invovled with development – I’d love too.
Jane Wells 12:46 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
Just a heads up in case you missed it, freeze is on February 29, so all code must be committed by then. After that it is just bug fixing based on user reports or findings from testing, not finishing off stuff that’s not quite done. Link to cycle schedule is in sidebar.
Jane Wells 12:48 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
shoulda added cc @lance just in case.
Lance Willett 12:57 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
Post author gets emails.
Lance Willett 12:58 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
I saw UI and code freeze at March 14. Feb 29 freeze is also doable if we have to.
Jane Wells 1:02 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
If you look again, you’ll see that is the date for freeze after doing round of fixes post-QA and testing. Feb 29 is the date.
Lance Willett 1:20 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
Thanks for clarifying—we’ll end the cycle Feb 29th, then.
Jane Wells 1:51 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
@lance: If no one is going to have time to work on it until the 20th, could you post a list of to-dos on the ticket? It’s probable that in the intervening 2 weeks ( a full cycle) there will be contributors who could write patches for some of the low-hanging fruit.
Lance Willett 5:38 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
We’ll be working on it in the meantime, just not full bore like the other teams.
David Cowgill 1:31 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
That’s great news Lance and congrats to Drew! Looking forward to seeing his design.
thekencook 2:16 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
Incorporating use of flex header dimensions?
Lance Willett 5:41 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
Most likely yes, we’ll be keeping an eye on #17242 to see how that feature is coming along.
Keeping in mind that this year’s default theme will not ship with any header images, and so the header image feature will be off by default.
Aaron D. Campbell 1:42 pm on February 7, 2012 Permalink
#17242 landed last week (Friday I think).
Drew Strojny 4:23 am on February 7, 2012 Permalink
Thanks all! Glad to be part of the team