Modernising our real-time communication

The WordPress project is testing out Slack as our main real-time communication platform, replacing 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. and ad hoc Skype chats.

chat.wordpress.org is our new information hub for SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. All 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/ users will be able to access WordPress Slack with immediate effect.

This change was announced by Matt during his State Of The WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/. presentation at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. San Francisco this weekend, and was overwhelmingly positively received. In fact, it was so well received that this week’s dev chat (October 29 2014 20:00 UTC) will be hosted in the WordPress #core channel on Slack, rather than in the #wordpress-dev channel on IRC.

There will be volunteers hanging out in #wordpress-dev to inform users that the dev chat has moved to Slack. For those of you who don’t want to leave IRC just yet, you can connect to WordPress Slack using the IRC gateway.

The #core and #announcements channels on Slack have just surpassed 1,000 users, which is five times as many as we’ve ever had in the channels on IRC. Join us at chat.wordpress.org!

#irc, #slack

The weekly IRC meeting has been moved back…

The weekly 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. meeting has been moved back one hour to 20:00 UTC. Still on Wednesdays. As always, check the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. for that info.

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WordPress 3.6 Planning Session

I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays! We’re back to our regularly scheduled 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. meetings tomorrow, and are going to start by scoping and planning out the 3.6 cycle. Wednesday, Jan 2, 21:00 UTC. Please make every effort to attend! The theme I’m proposing for 3.6 is “Content Editing”, so especially start thinking about editing, editorial workflows, revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision., autosave, DFW, etc. Also be thinking about what you’d like to work on and how much time you can commit this cycle.

#3-6, #irc, #planning

As the WordPress core team is in the…

As the WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team is in the middle of an in-person meetup, we’ll be skipping the 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. dev chat this week. We’ll be collecting our notes throughout each day of the meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. and posting a summary the following day.

#irc, #meetup

Weekly project meeting changed to 21:00 UTC starting Nov. 16

Normally the timing of the weekly project meeting 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. chat will not change with daylight savings changes, as it is anchored to 16:00 UTC. However, it also becomes an opportune time to adjust the time to better fit schedules for the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team and our most active contributors.

We’re going return to 21:00 UTC time. This is morning in Australia, afternoon in the U.S., late evening in the U.K. It will be nice to see @dd32 at our chats again. 🙂

Today we’ll meet at 17:00 (now) and we’ll start with 21:00 next week.

A number of us are doing daily bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrubs (triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. sessions) and 3.3 status checks (typically spontaneous and generally occurring in the U.S. afternoon), so we’ll see you around!

#dev-chat, #irc

GSoC Student Chat Today In half an hour…

GSoC Student Chat Today! In half an hour (17:00 UTC) in #wordpress-gsoc, hear about, ask questions regarding, and get to know the developers of these student projects:

  • Ben Balter (Document RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.), whose mentors are Mitcho, duck_, Jorbin
  • Prasath Nadarajah (Extending WP Webservices), whose mentors are Thorsten and Eric Mann

Note: Stas Suscov (learn.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/) is being rescheduled for next week along with the students who missed their chats this week.

#gsoc, #irc

Hello folks The GSoC students have ironed out…

Hello folks. The GSoC students have ironed out scope and schedule for their projects, and are ready to tell you about them and answer questions and/or hear suggestions. The links below have the project descriptions and schedules. Each student will hold a Q&A 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. according to the schedule below. Please come and show our GSoC students some support!

irc.freenode.net #wordpress-gsoc

Tuesday 17:00 UTC:
Anirudh S. (Refresh Android UI) – Dan Roundhill, Isaac
Mert Yazicioglu (WordPress Move) – Pete Mall, Brian Layman
Wojtek Szutnik (Enhanced Emails) – Aaron Campbell, Justin

Wednesday 14:00 UTC:
David Julia (Template Versioning) – Ocean90, Nacin, Koop
Jakub Tyrcha (Full-throttle Trac Annihilation) – Dion, duck_, scribu, Nacin
Marko Novakovic (Language Packs) – Nacin, Nikolay

Thursday 17:00 UTC:
Jacob Gillespie (File Uploader Upgrade) – Koop, azaozz
Lukasz Koprowski (Threaded Comments) – Westi, Koop
Mihai Chereji (Local Storage Drafts Backup) – Filosofo, mitcho, azaozz and Koop

Friday 17:00 UTC:
Ben Balter (Document Revisions) – Mitcho, duck_, Jorbin
Prasath Nadarajah (Extending WP Webservices) – Thorsten, Eric Mann
Stas Suscov (learn.wordpress.org) – Jtrip, Jeremy Boggs

Oh, and re suggestions: Please be respectful of students and mentors and try not to assume that they don’t know what they’re doing. Sometimes it’s easy to get carried away — out of the best intentions — when giving advice, so once a suggestion has been heard, leave it to the students and mentors to decide if they’ll take the advice or not. Thanks!

#gsoc, #irc

GSoC Pre-Application IRC Chats

Okay, potential GSoC students. By now you’ve hopefully settled on a project idea or are narrowing it down between a couple of choices, have gotten some feedback by sending your ideas to the wp-hackers list, and/or have talked to mentors in the #wordpress-gsoc irc channel. For the next 6 days, we’ll be holding scheduled irc chats with a rotating cast of WordPress mentors, who are all looking forward to talking with you and hearing a little more about you before they start rating applications. You can use this time to ask questions, get live feedback on your proposal and just show your face (read: irc handle) so the mentors know you are serious about wanting to work with WordPress this summer.

Format: each chat will be scheduled for an hour. Below is the schedule in UTC time (linked date/time goes to world clock site for easy local time translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization.). At the beginning of each chat, we’ll ask which students want to be speak. We’ll put them in a random order, and give each student 5 minutes. If we have enough time to give more, we will. You can direct your questions to a specific mentor, or to the mentors at large. When your time is up, please be respectful and let the other students have their turns. You can always talk more with mentors after the scheduled chat is over, as they’ll be lurking in the room all week until the application deadline on April 8.

The chat location is irc.freenode.net #wordpress-gsoc. If you are planning to attend a chat, please leave a comment on this post and link to your proposal (on your WordPress-powered blogblog (versus network, site)) so that mentors can look it over before you talk to them in irc.

Good luck!

Date/Time Mentors
Friday, 4/1/2011
23:00 UTC
Alex M. – Viper007Bond
Aaron Jorbin – jorbin
Austin Matzko – filosofo
Eric Mann – ericmann
Chris Jean – chrisbliss18
Andrew Nacin – nacin
John James Jacoby – jjj
Justin Shreve – jshreve
Cristi Burca – scribu
Michael Erlewine -mitcho, mitchoyoshitaka
Dominik Schilling – ocean90
Aaron Campbell – aaroncampbell
Saturday, 4/2/2011
19:00 UTC
Cristi Burca – scribu
Thorsten Ott – tott
Andrew Nacin – nacin
Nikolay Bachiyski – nbachiyski
Pete Mall – petemall
Austin Matzko – filosofo
Dominik Schilling – ocean90
Sunday, 4/3/2011
01:00 UTC
Michael Erlewine -mitcho, mitchoyoshitaka
Daryl Koopersmith – koopersmith
Andy Skelton – skeltoac
John James Jacoby – jjj
Peter Westwood – westi
Eric Mann – ericmann
Alex M. – Viper007Bond
Dominik Schilling – ocean90
Dion Hulse – dd32
Monday, 4/4/2011
14:00 UTC
Andrew Nacin – nacin
Daryl Koopersmith – koopersmith
Andy Skelton – skeltoac
Justin Shreve – jshreve
Jon Cave – duck_
Peter Westwood – westi
Dan Roundhill – mrroundhill
Thorsten Ott – tott
Nikolay Bachiyski – nbachiyski
Dion Hulse – dd32
Tuesday, 4/5/2011
10:00 UTC
Cristi Burca – scribu
Nikolay Bachiyski – nbachiyski
Peter Westwood – westi
Dan Roundhill – mrroundhill
Thorsten Ott – tott
Jon Cave – duck_
John James Jacoby – jjj
Dion Hulse – dd32
Wednesday, 4/6/2011
17:00 UTC
Pete Mall – petemall
Aaron Campbell – aaroncampbell
Austin Matzko – filosofo
Thorsten Ott – tott
Chris Jean – chrisbliss18
Andy Skelton – skeltoac
Dan Roundhill – mrroundhill
Jon Cave – duck_
Daryl Koopersmith – koopersmith
Nikolay Bachiyski – nbachiyski
Justin Shreve – jshreve

#gsoc, #irc

I’m sure a lot of you have noticed the …

I’m sure a lot of you have noticed the rez-bot issues in our irc channel the last week or two (Error: database locked, etc). Just wanted to let people know this has now been fixed. Props @apokalyptik (Demetrious Kelly).

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New IRC policy suggestion. Whenever the …

New 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. policy suggestion. Whenever the folks at #wordpress send someone over into #wordpress-dev, we send them back, and one or more of us need to bite the bullet and jump back over there and see if we can help.

This has a few advantages. One, people who hover in #wordpress can learn, instead of always sending people our way. Two, we can keep the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development channel clean of chatter — including the logs, which some of us do try to read the scrollback for (I’ve stopped lately, but I used to always make sure I read the logs in full). Three, this then gets logged in the proper channel. Four, we also don’t raise expectations that #wordpress-dev is for general development. If we dip into #wordpress a bit more (I’m going to idle in it now, I think), we’ll have support questions in #wordpress-dev less, and it will increase our productivity.

I know sometimes we like to adopt odd questions and challenges that come into #wordpress-dev — I’m as bad as anyone on this. But after spending an hour (and others before me) and many dozens lines of logs, we discovered that a recent issue came down to a bad APC configuration setting. [last line edited for clarity]

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