Hi Everyone!

As you know, I’m working on enhancing profiles.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/ as a part of GSoC’13 and this is my fifth weekly update regarding how things are going.

Once again, you can find my whole final schedule here: http://www.mertyazicioglu.com/2013/06/25/gsoc-2013-schedule-enhance-profiles-wordpress-org/

As you can see from the schedule, the things I was planning to complete by now was as follows:

July 16th – The codebase for feeding the Enhanced Activity Stream from bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. should be finalized and the codebase for fetching the Enhanced Activity Stream data should be complete by now.

…and I’m happy to let you know that we are now able to seamlessly push activities to BuddyPress’ Activity Stream.

The code that will receive the activities can be found in the repository: https://gsoc.svn.wordpress.org/2013/merty/wp/wp-activity-listener.php

I have also updated the bbPress and TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. plugins to send the requests to the correct URLs:
https://gsoc.svn.wordpress.org/2013/merty/bbpress/bb-plugins/new-post-notifier.php
https://gsoc.svn.wordpress.org/2013/merty/trac/plugins/ActivityStreamNotifier.py

Enabling bbPress and Trac plugins, and dropping wp-activity-listener.php to the root directory of WordPress is all there is to it. Every single new topic, new post in a topic, new ticket, new comment in a ticket and changeset will now be forwarded to the WP installation which will create an Activity Stream item based on it.

Now, I have a feeling that this might not be the correct way of doing this, but after spending quite a bit time on it, I could not find a reason why this should not be the solution. I’m sincerely looking forward to hearing your suggestions on this.

To sum up, fifth week’s goal has also been met and in the next week’s update, I will be presenting the codebase for adding and editing Links to Profiles on Other Sites.

See you next week!

#gsoc, #profiles, #weekly-update

Hi Everyone!

As you know, I’m working on enhancing profiles.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/ as a part of GSoC’13 and this is my second weekly update regarding how things are going.

First of all, you can find my whole final schedule here: http://www.mertyazicioglu.com/2013/06/25/gsoc-2013-schedule-enhance-profiles-wordpress-org/

As you can see from the schedule, the things I was planning to complete by now was as follows:

June 25th – A wireframe of the new profile design (Better Representation of the Information), a local replica of the live environment (Enhanced Activity Stream) and the research regarding how we can feed the Activity Stream with TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. and bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. data properly (Enhanced Activity Stream) should complete by now.

Now let’s go into some details 🙂

I actually prepared the wireframe of the new profile design even before the coding started, so I was running ahead of the schedule for that task. I shared it with my mentors and no change was proposed. The only thing mentioned was the existence of the Gamification-related widgets I put for demonstration purposes only. As mentioned in my previous weekly update, we are not planning to work on Gamification this summer but we will most certainly work on it after the GSoC completes. So here is the wireframe I prepared which is still and completely subject to change, as Jen will be helping us on this 🙂

This is mostly just to explain better what I have in my mind right now.

My other task was to replicate the .org environment to be able to work on “Enhanced Activity Stream”-related tasks. I have installed bbPress, Trac, WordPress and BuddyPress locally and will be testing the codes I will be writing, on those installations in the upcoming weeks.

Finally and most importantly, my final task for this week was to conduct a research regarding how we can feed the Activity Stream with Trac and bbPress data properly. As a result of that research, I have decided to write a BuddyPress pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party to receive the data we will be using to feed the Activity Stream. Here are the pieces of data I’m planning to store:

1. Support Forums Activity
   1. New topic
   2. New reply
2. Trac Activity
   1. CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Trac
      1. Props
      2. New Ticket
      3. Reply in Ticket
   2. Plugins Trac
      1. New commit
      2. New Ticket
      3. Reply in Ticket
3. Plugin Directory Activity
   1. New Plugin
   2. New Favorite
   3. New Review
4. Theme Directory Activity
   1. New Theme
   2. New Review

To find the best way to listen to the Trac activity, I dug the Trac documentation quite a bit and analysed some of the Trac plugins. Luckily, Trac is fairly pluggable and we can write a plugin in Python that passes the necessary data to BuddyPress. However, I’m not quite sure whether it is okay to add a plugin to Trac for this purpose, or not. If we can’t, then I’ll be writing a PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. script that regularly runs and checks to see if there are any new Trac activity, instead.

Similarly, in order to bind to Support Forums, Plugin Directory and Theme Directory, I will be writing bbPress plugins that send the data to BuddyPress, just like the plugin/script for Trac does.

To sum up:

To give some details regarding the endpoints I may use to listen to Trac activities:

In the next week’s update, I will be presenting the codebase for feeding the Enhanced Activity Stream from Trac and hopefully a little bit more 😉

See you next week!

#gsoc, #profiles, #weekly-update

Hi Everyone!

I’m Mert Yazicioglu from Ankara, Turkey and I will be working on enhancing profiles.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/ this summer. I’m currently studying Computer Technology and Information Systems at Bilkent University for a BS degree and I have just completed my junior year.

I have been actively using WordPress for the past 2.5 years and have been trying to contribute WordPress one way or another since. Apart from the countless WordPress projects I worked on and being listed as a CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Contributor since version 3.3, my most notable involvement with WordPress was participating and successfully completing Google Summer of Code 2011 by developing a migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. tool for WordPress, called WordPress Move. It has been downloaded more than 58,000 times so far and it is being downloaded more than 100 times every single day.

This summer, I will be working on enhancing profiles.wordpress.org which I think has a really great potential to bond the WordPress community even better. As we have a limited time, we can only realise some of the ideas I have proposed in my proposal and to decide which to drop, we held a meeting together with my mentors Boone B. Gorges and Scott Reilly, last Tuesday.

In that meeting, we have decided to drop the following three ideas I have proposed[0] from the scope, as the other tasks need much more attention: Latest Posts, Showcase and Following Each Other. Although we have decided to drop these from the scope, we will most likely implement these after the Google Summer of Code. These are good examples of how we can develop the new profiles further, so naturally these should be worked on after the new profiles are ready to be used.

We have also decided that the following three tasks are relatively easy to tackle and should be a part of the things we will be working on this summer: Better Representation of the Information, Links to Profiles on Other Sites, A Better Way to List Plugins and Enhanced Activity Stream. Though, the last one will really be tricky 🙂

Finally, if we have enough time left, we will be working on creating a Profiles Homepage, on which I’m planning to present some data such as: The Newest Core ContributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org., The Newest PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Authors, The Newest Theme Creators, The Recent Rockstars etc. and a feed on which we show the recent activities of the users. Our main goal there will be to motivate users.

In my proposal there was also Gamification but having so much on our plates, we had to either pick Profiles Homepage or Gamification as a task to work on if we have some extra time left. As I mentioned before, we will be working on the tasks we are dropping today, after Google Summer of Code completes and Gamification is certainly one of them. We will most probably add simple motivators here and there to provide some simple Gamification anyway.

I think we have a great summer ahead and I’m sure we will be able produce something really valuable for the WordPress community!

See you next week!

[0] http://www.mertyazicioglu.com/2013/05/02/gsoc-2013-proposal-enhance-profiles-wordpress-org/

#gsoc, #profiles, #weekly-update