Housekeeping

I’ll be posting a summary soon that covers Wednesday’s marathon meeting to scope out features for 3.5. In the meantime, some housekeeping:

make/coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

This P2P2 A free theme for WordPress, known for front-end posting, used by WordPress for development updates and project management. See our main development blog and other workgroup blogs. blogblog (versus network, site) has moved from wpdevel.wordpress.comWordPress.com An online implementation of WordPress code that lets you immediately access a new WordPress environment to publish your content. WordPress.com is a private company owned by Automattic that hosts the largest multisite in the world. This is arguably the best place to start blogging if you have never touched WordPress before. https://wordpress.com/ to make.wordpress.org/core. The “make” networknetwork (versus site, blog) is still very young, but there are other P2 blogs already underway, including ui, accessibility, themes, and plugins. wppolyglots.wordpress.com also moved to make/polyglots.

Everything was migrated, including email and jabber subscriptions (using Jetpack). Being on the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ network opens up some possibilities, including custom features, better integration, and single sign-on.

New test framework

There will definitely be more to come on this, but in the last two weeks, the test suite was converted to a new test runner. You can read more about the effort on @maxcutler‘s blog. Tests are now easier and more straightforward to write, and the runner is also faster, leaner, and more stable. We’ve been working to increase our test coverage with every core commit, so this move was really important.

Unit tests and mailing lists

With the new test framework, we’re also looking to raise the visibility of our tests. We do plan to merge them into core’s Subversion repository in the future, but for now, we’ve merged some mailing lists. The wp-svn mailing list (every core commit, right in your inbox) now receives commits to the unit-tests repository as well. And wp-trac (every TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. and comment — “the WordPress firehose”) now receives comments from the unit-tests Trac.

If you are mostly just interested in tests, the wp-unit-tests mailing list receives both commits and Trac notifications, as before. (Also, make yourself known!)

Daily Bug Scrubs

I’d like to continue having daily “office hours.” For now, we’ll continue them weekdays at 19:00 UTC (an hour before the dev chat usually is). A number of us are idling in IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. throughout the week anyway, but I think it has worked well to have a set time where you can stop by to help comb through Trac, bring up tickets for discussion, and pitch patches.

 

 

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