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  • Mark Jaquith 10:01 pm on April 17, 2013 Permalink
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    The weekly IRC meeting has been moved back one hour to 20:00 UTC. Still on Wednesdays. As always, check the sidebar for that info.

     

  • Mark Jaquith 2:04 am on January 2, 2013 Permalink
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    WordPress 3.6 Planning Session 

    I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays! We’re back to our regularly scheduled IRC 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, revisions, autosave, DFW, etc. Also be thinking about what you’d like to work on and how much time you can commit this cycle.

     

    • John Saddington 2:45 am on January 2, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      booya. this will be awesome. can’t wait to see what 3.6 brings in terms of content editing, especially for editors of blog and blog networks. bingo.

    • Japh 2:49 am on January 2, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I plan to be there, Mark! Looking to be an excellent release. I like the proposed theme. Depending what it ends up looking like, I imagine features for this version will be very relevant for me.

    • nofearinc 8:49 am on January 2, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      this seems way more handy than the gallery functionality as it covers every single user and would lead to performance and UX improvement. Very exciting.

    • Sara Rosso 9:25 am on January 2, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Exciting. I’m going to follow along closely on this one! :)

    • Ron Rennick 2:38 pm on January 2, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I hope to attend but will miss the first of the meetup. After discussing the multisite roadmap at WPCS I went through most of the multisite tickets. For 3.6 I think it would be good if we went through and cleaned up some of the small enhancements and UX inconsistencies. I’ll have a few hours a week throughout most of the 3.6 cycle to work on those items.

    • David Tufts 3:53 pm on January 2, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      As far as the custom fields and custom meta boxes go, I would like to see extendable form elements in WordPress similar to the extendable widgets. There should be a base form element class that all other form elements can extend, allowing for all form elements in the custom meta boxes to be generated using built in WordPress elements like, date picker, color picker, editor, etc. This would include input validation and all the sql validation as well. I have added something similar to this in the KickPress plugin that is in the plugin repository. (http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/kickpress/trunk/kickpress-form-elements.php)

    • mojowill 8:54 am on January 3, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Interested to see where this goes!

    • AqoonKaal 3:37 am on January 5, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Thanks Mark for your dedication. When you say “Content Editing” does that include looking into the_excerpt lenght . For example if the_excerpt could accept two variables, say the_excerpt ($length, $more) so that you can assign different lenght for different categories like so: the_excerpt (“50″, “more”), or the_excerpt (“25″ “read more”), etc. That may help CMS part of WP (like E-commerce, Newpaper themes etc).

  • Mark Jaquith 8:04 pm on December 14, 2011 Permalink
    Tags: Core, irc,   

    As the WordPress core team is in the middle of an in-person meetup, we’ll be skipping the IRC dev chat this week. We’ll be collecting our notes throughout each day of the meetup and posting a summary the following day.

     

  • Andrew Nacin 5:06 pm on November 9, 2011 Permalink
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    Weekly project meeting changed to 21:00 UTC starting Nov. 16 

    Normally the timing of the weekly project meeting IRC 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 core 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 bug scrubs (triage sessions) and 3.3 status checks (typically spontaneous and generally occurring in the U.S. afternoon), so we’ll see you around!

     

  • Jen Mylo 4:34 pm on May 13, 2011 Permalink
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    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 Revisions), whose mentors are Mitcho, duck_, Jorbin
    • Prasath Nadarajah (Extending WP Webservices), whose mentors are Thorsten and Eric Mann

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

     

  • Jen Mylo 2:03 pm on May 10, 2011 Permalink
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    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 IRC 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!

     

  • Jen Mylo 1:54 am on April 1, 2011 Permalink
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    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 translation). 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 blog) 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
     

  • Jen Mylo 4:28 pm on January 3, 2011 Permalink
    Tags: irc   

    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).

     

  • Andrew Nacin 4:16 am on May 21, 2010 Permalink
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    New IRC 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 core 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]

     

    • Alex M. 4:20 am on May 21, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      This wasn’t the standard thing to do already? :)

    • dd32 9:21 am on May 21, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I’m all for this, I dont idle in #wordpress due to the noise, But if someone comes to wordpress-dev or PM’s me/mentions it in #wordpress-dev, I’ll happily jump over to #wordpress to help someone out.

      • bentrem 1:21 am on May 23, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        I think what happens is that folk like you leave so even if something half-you,know reasonable comes up it either doesn’t get responded to or just degrades into noise. Backwaters become swamps.
        So what I’m thinking is that anything that get’s initially responded to in -dev and moved over into #wordpress has the effect of generating a bit of light. (I used to be on IRC every day with another big project OMG a decade ago.)

        • bentrem 1:23 am on May 23, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          By “moved over” I mean talked through, so stuff that isn’t -dev, strictly speaking ends up being dealt with while keeping the total payload there smaller and giving #wordpress a nudge in the right direction.

    • filosofo 11:03 am on May 21, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I try to read all the logs, too, and it doesn’t seem like this is a frequent problem. Being a frequent problem is a necessary (though still not sufficient) condition for creating new policies.

      Does your IRC client use color-coded usernames? Mine (XChat) has that as an option, so it was very easy for me to skip over the remainder of this particular conversation once I got the gist.

    • Peter Westwood 7:24 am on May 22, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      This sounds like sound good practice to me.

      I do idle in #wordpress but barely read it

      I gave up trying to read the whole log of any channel a long time back!

    • hakre 10:29 pm on May 23, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      there should be no connections between those two channels but the user (as developer).

  • Jen Mylo 1:05 pm on April 7, 2010 Permalink
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    The last group mentor chat before the GSoC application deadline is today at 4:30 eastern time, at irc.freenode.net #wordpress-gsoc. To make things a little smoother, interested students should leave a comment here indicating that they wish to speak with mentors in today’s chat. Provide a link to your proposal also, and/or to the hacker’s thread where your idea has been discussed. To help things go faster in the chat itself, please type out your questions in advance so you can copy and paste into the chat when it’s your turn. Also remember to type out a very short summary of your project idea, in case teh mentors haven’t had time to check out your links. Thanks.

    Don’t forget, the application deadline is Friday at 19:00 UTC!

     

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