Devhub update 16th December

Apologies for my lack of updates of late. Meetings have been going on in 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/., but I’ve not been good at writing up the notes.-

This week we discussed:

• parser – @coffee2code will be running the parser after 4.1 lands tomorrow. Re-parsing will reveal some new goodies, such as the Used by/Uses information
• explanations – @drew has a patch to scott to review. Once explanations land we’ll start testing them.
• design – jan, who’s on the dot org team at automattic will be redesigning devhub in the new year
• related content – we discussed #174 – link to generally related functions/classes. We’ll return to it next week after the Used by/Uses information lands.
• plan for 4.1 parsing – @coffee2code will run the parser tomorrow shortly after release. Please be available in the devhub room in case we have issues (especially you @Rarst 🙂 )

Committed this past week:

• Introduced get_summary() and used it. Abstracted the fact the summary (aka short description) is stored in post_excerpt, primarily to force display of special characters.
• Displayed function/method return types in the same style as parameter types (parenthesized, italicized)
• Italicized parameter types in the display of the method signature
• Enabled display of inline source code for classes
• Moved formatting-related code into dedicated include file

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