Picking up where we left off….
Friday
We kicked off Friday with a discussion about the high-level roadmap for 2012. Using our earlier talk about process and scope, we identified areas/userflows that we could use to focus a release. Areas of interest included changing themes/customizing your site, uploading a bunch of photos, interacting with audience/feedback loop. (There were more, but let’s face it, there are too many things we’d like to improve to do them all at once.)
We all donned WordPress gear so that people would recognize us at the happy hour later.
Dion (dd32) modeling the latest swag
Dion and Andrew Ozz before lunch
Lunch: Went to The Sentient Bean in Savannah.
The Sentient Bean
Back patio at the Sentient Bean
Koop and Mark, Dion and Ozz in the background
Next we went to ThincSavannah, my coworking space in downtown Savannah. We did the livestreamed Town Hall/Q&A (recording coming soon), answering questions from that forum thread I put up last week and a few that came in live from IRC.
Core team town hall
After that was happy hour at Jazz’d. Only two people came to hang out with us (and to think we dressed up especially!), but they were two great people, so we were fine. Some drinks and appetizers later, we departed for WordPress on Ice, in which we went ice skating at the Civic Center.
Nacin and Koop on skates
WordPress on Ice! Nacin, Mark, Jane, Matt, Jon, Daryl
Then a stop at Huc-a-Poo’s, then home.
Saturday
We spent the morning talking about mobile apps and their place in the WordPress ecosystem, as well as making the dashboard a better experience when viewed in a mobile browser.
Lunch: Went to AJ’s and ate on the deck. Continued talking about mobile. This eventually morphed a bit into a discussion about the lines between .org/.com.
Core team at lunch at AJ's Dockside
After lunch we talked about the default theme for 2012, including what it should do/be that our current themes don’t already accomplish, and the process for its creation. Breakouts followed. One was focused on multisite, while the other was focused on hosting/diagnostics/health check. We tested doing a Google Hangout with screensharing as a way to collaborate more effectively throughout the year, and agreed we would try to do them once a month. For dinner we got takeout BBQ from Gerald’s Pig & Shrimp. We pretended @ryan was with us by playing a video of him from last year’s meetup. Afterward, Koop gave a primer on JavaScript.
Sunday
When we started this morning, we tried to at least quickly hit the things we hadn’t gotten to yet, since today was the last day. These included: Google stuff, core plugins, how leadership in core does/does not translate to leadership of the whole project, wordpress.org site, pairs (creating process to make collaborative/non-solo development the norm), and CMS stuff.
Since a lot of us were pretty interested in making the theme customization process a focus of the next release, we starting identifying what the chunks of that might look like under the new process and with people working in pairs/teams. We continued talking about this over brunch at the Tybee Island Social Club, where @nacin and @dkoopersmith drank bacon bloody marys.
Bacon Bloody Mary
Should Nacin eat the bacon or drink the bloody mary? He can't decide.
After brunch, @markjaquith and @dd32 left for the airport, and @joncave and @azaozz left two hours later. Bye bye, core team!
Now we begin a 2nd mini meetup. Matt, Nacin, Koop, and I are staying, and have been joined by @otto42 and @chexee. The next couple of days we’ll be doing some planning and starting projects to make visiting wordpress.org a better, more useful experience. Tonight, though, everyone is catching up on some individual work after a week of long days.
We’ll post summaries of the specific core meetup discussions over the coming week.
magol, 
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lessbloat, and 18 others are discussing. 
F J Kaiser, and 14 others are discussing. 
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Peter Westwood 8:52 pm on March 13, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The revisions UI Ticket is #23497
Mark Jaquith 9:03 pm on March 13, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Got it.
Myatu 12:06 pm on March 15, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Sigh. I only have three requests for the devs: Comments, comments and comments. There’s a lack of proper developer documentation (read: the outdated Codex). But resorting to the actual source code/phpdoc is of no help either, as there’s a distinct lack of comments (particularly the additions added with 3.5 such as the new Media Library Javascript code). This is compounded by the fact there’s no rhyme or reason to some of the coding styles used – its getting uglier by the day, and I’m wondering if that has to do with missed deadlines (and thus devs feel pressured to make haste). Maybe it’s just me… But its starting to take the fun out of things.
Mark Jaquith 4:52 am on March 16, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I agree. And yes, the media stuff (as wonderful as it is in execution) is too much of a black box. Just like we have people who update our help tabs and our PHPDocs, there should be people who work on improving code commenting, formatting, and readability. Would be a good task for someone who is new to core, as their confusion about unclear sections would be genuine and not simulated, as it might be for someone who already knows what the code does.
adamsilverstein 7:47 pm on March 17, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
also on revisions: #22289 (Filter to override WP_POST_REVISIONS)
Drew Jaynes (DrewAPicture) 9:05 pm on March 20, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
You want to change #23716 under Nav Menus to #23770 — Secondary tab for Locations?
Mark Jaquith 7:48 am on March 22, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Yep, done.