WordPress for iOS
Isaac Keyet (isaackeyet)
Eric Johnson (aerych)
Mobile Dev Chat Summary for Nov 28, 2012
Agenda
- Mobile handbook
- WPiOS Sounds release
- WPWindowsPhone progress
- WPAndroid UI Idea
Mobile Handbook
We’re going to create a WordPress mobile handbook to help new contributors get up to speed quickly when wanting to help out with all things mobile. Some notes:
- We will have a main overview page that will link off to specific instructions on contributing to each app.
- We should also include information for stuff outside of the apps, such as responsive design.
- Each app lead is responsible for writing the page with instructions on getting set up and contributing to the app.
- A google doc spreadsheet is going to be made by the weekend that will help us get the basic outline created for the Handbook.
WPiOS Sounds Release
- App was submitted on Monday!
- We’re not done with sounds, we’d like to continue iterating on them when possible.
WPWindows Phone Progress
- Still waiting on version 1.7.1 to be approved from Microsoft.
- Good progress has been made on version 1.8, which includes better comment moderation support.
WPAndroid UI Idea
- For the next release (Date TBD) we’d like to create an Android 3.0 or higher version of the app that can use the ‘Holo’ theme and also make use of the native action bar.
- We’ll split the APK distribution so that we can still offer the older UI version of the app to Android 2.3 or lower users.
Next chat
Join us for the next weekly chat Wednesday at 1600 UTC on irc.freenode.net in the #WordPress-Mobile room.
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Siobhan 3:31 pm on December 1, 2012 Permalink |
Hi there, I’ve put together a spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiTZlIvtDmPEdDQxQkV6bGdTN3VWWHVhYlpEU0NENWc
You’ll see the main sections, and you can insert a line underneath the sections for the individual document title. Use – to show a hierarchy. I’ve added some content so you can see what I mean.
I suggest using the following workflow:
1. Create the table of contents.
Add all of the titles of the individual articles you need. Move the rows around to create the table of contents. This means you’ll have a complete list of things that need to be written when you get started.
2. Start Writing
Author puts their name in the Author column, creates page and adds a link. Change the status to In Progress. When you’re done change Status to Needs Editor. It’ll be looked at by an editor. When they’re happy they’ll assign a proofreader. When the proofreader is done they’ll mark it as complete.
Comments can be added to the comments section – this could be on issues you’ve got, or suggestions from the editor.
Where will be build it?
There are a few options:
1. Build it on make.wordpress.org/events/handbook
2. Create another site and then migrate it when we’re done.
I was naturally thinking about building it on events/handbook/ but it could actually be good to set up a site and build it on there. That way we can use something like Edit Flow for comments, create tags and custom statuses, and have a bit more control. Then when the content is done we could migrate it to make.wordpress.org/events/handbook
I don’t mind either way though, and would appreciate any input or thoughts you guys have on it.
Siobhan 7:15 pm on December 3, 2012 Permalink |
Just an update – @nacin says we can have any tools we need, I guess once 3.5 is out and the core team has had time to wind down. In the meantime, let’s use the spreadsheet so we can keep track of things and build on make/mobile/handbook
Dan 4:38 pm on December 5, 2012 Permalink |
Hi there, we have figured out the authors for each sections and a rough outline. I can’t seem to edit the spreadsheet though, can you make it editable?
Siobhan 11:54 am on December 7, 2012 Permalink |
Sorry about that – I’ve updated it now so you can edit.
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