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  • Isaac Keyet 4:34 pm on May 8, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Dev chat summary for May 8, 2013 

    Chat log.

    Agenda

    • iOS projects update
    • Android projects update
    • Moving dev blog discussions to make/mobile (this blog)
    • Handbook reminder

    iOS projects update

    NUX (new welcome guide, improved WordPress.com sign up) is almost complete, need to look over copy and polish a few things, then should be ready to get it translated and tested.

    WordPress.com native reader project: picking up momentum again, currently working on threaded comments which is complicated.

    Accounts migration: need to write the actual core data migration but very close to completion. Should simplify the way WordPress.com accounts act under the hood in the iOS app.

    Android projects update

    A bug fix update is going out today that fixes a bug with featured images.

    The WordPress.com Notifications project is very close to beta, no word on when just yet but should be very soon.

    Moving dev blog discussions to make/mobile (this blog)

    We decided to close the dev blogs and (if possible) migrate their data to this blog instead and keep all discussions/announcements/etc in one place. The filtering on this p2 should make it easy to only see discussions about specific platforms if you only contribute to one. @mrroundhill took it on himself to investigate what’s needed for migrating the data. @isaackeyet (me) will look into a way to display sticky messages on the dev blogs once migrations are complete. The platform leads for each platform will also post a last post on each one of the dev blogs letting subscribed readers know that the blog has been merged with make/mobile (this would be @mrroundhill, @koke, and @daniloercoli for BlackBerry and Windows Phone).

    After the chat @nacin jumped in and let us know he will assist with the migrations as well.

    Handbook reminder

    @aerych reminded himself and all others that the Handbook is still in need of looking over and updating – please refer to the separate todo post for details on what’s left and who’s responsible for what.

    Other

    @daniloercoli let everybody know that there’s a new bug fix update live for Windows Phone. It has bug fixes as well as a small new feature that lets users share permalinks to other apps on the device (such as Email, Facebook, Twitter, etc).

    Next week

    The next dev chat will be on May 15, 2013 at 15:00 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • Isaac Keyet 11:28 pm on April 18, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    We’re coming up on the end of the contributor handbook schedule. May 17th is the last date for all handbook components, after that there’s only editing left. We’ve not followed the exact structure as suggested by Docs, but we’re not far from having all parts ready either. So as we’re approaching the home stretch, I thought it best to create a check list of remaning items so we make sure everything gets done in time.

    I’ll assign people to complete the pages to the best of my knowledge.

    Introduction

    iOS

    The state of the iOS and Graphics sections are far behind the rest, so these two only have general todos.

    Android

    BlackBerry

    Windows Phone

    Can’t find the reference right now, but if I remember correctly @daniloercoli, @aerych, and @sendhilp all wanted to take another look at the Windows Phone section. Please divide any items here in between you!

    Other Apps

    Contribute with Design

    All items assigned to @isaackeyet

    Assist with Testing

    XML-RPC & API Contributions

    General Guides

    Any takers here? @beaucollins comes to mind, let me know if you’re up for taking these on.

    Tips & Tricks

    Credits

    Other todos

     

    • daniloercoli 8:33 am on April 19, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      BlackBerry: I will update/finish the section “Intro to app development”, but other than that don’t think we need to spend other time on this platform, that is now deprecated (BB10 is out since Jan), and the app didn’t see an update (and any contributor) since mid 2012.

  • Eric 6:44 pm on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    For the GSOC I think it would be nice to have at least one project for WPiOS, WPAnroid and WPWinPhone. Maybe even encouraging something new like a Phone Gap effort, native BlackBerry, Tizen or Firefox OS apps. We should suggest some ideas.
    Adding image filters to iOS quick photo might be a good project. Anyone have others?

     

    • Jen Mylo 6:54 pm on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Propose as many as possible, for the best chance to entice a good set of applicants. You’re not committed to anything until we actually choose students.

      • Eric 7:44 pm on March 29, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        Hey @jane, We’ve settled on a list of projects we think sound interesting and @daniloercoli, @sendhil, and myself are game to mentor. I went ahead and updated the project page (hope that was okay) but let me know if it would be better to send the list a different way.

    • Will Norris 8:52 pm on March 19, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Some random things on my wishlist for the Android app. I think some of these are already being worked on, or may get started between now and June, but I’ll list them anyway. If we think any of these are worth pursuing, we can write more in depth proposals.

      • add Notification support (pretty sure this is already being worked on)
      • refactor all network code out of Activity classes and move to background service (related: #363). this is actually a fair amount of work.
      • add tests (unit tests, UI tests, etc). Adding a lot of the unit tests will be dependent on the network code refactor above and similar refactoring projects so that the code is broken up into more logical chunks that can be individually tested. This also isn’t a very sexy task, but is really important, long term.
      • photo instant upload, a la Google+ / FaceBook / Dropbox. We’d need to discuss a little more about whether this should go into the app before we have a student spend time coding it up. I have mixed feelings.
      • explore options for allowing plugins to extend the mobile UI. I’ve had a number of different thoughts about how this could be done. I’m not sure that this would get to a shippable state in the time allotted for SoC (again, I think it deserves a bit of discussion on whether it should be done), but a proof of concept would be really cool.

      • Eric 2:41 pm on March 22, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        explore options for allowing plugins to extend the mobile UI

        That would be rad!

    • Eric 2:41 pm on March 22, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      A few more ideas:

      • Port WordPress for webOS to Firefox OS, Tizen, and/or Ubuntu Mobile.
      • A native WordPress app for BlackBerry 10.
      • Make WordPress for iOS a share target for other mobile apps.
      • Build a rich text editor for WordPress for iOS.

  • Eric 7:55 pm on February 13, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Weekly dev chat summary for Feb 13, 2013 

    Chat log.

    Agenda

    • WPiOS
    • WPWindowsPhone
    • Mockups

    WPiOS

    We discussed which feature we’d like to work on next.  On the table

    • a visual editor
    • sharing to wpios from 3rd party apps
    • improved media management

    The visual editor would be developed with CoreText, casting aside a previous html based effort. We talked about writing the editor so it was its own library and sharable as a cocoa pod. We would also look at improving the editor flow as the visual editor is implemented.

    For sharing, we’d expose an interface for 3rd party apps to share content to the WPiOS app.  We talked about whether we could return the user to the app that initiated the action once sharing was complete, and whether we should also share from WPiOS to other apps as part of a larger sharing release.

    The app is missing some media management options. We’d like the app to be able to manage a posts media regardless of whether the media was added from the app or not.

    WPWindowsPhone

    This week @daniloercoli has been working on some bug fixes and improvements to the stats feature.

    We briefly debated what the next major feature could be and considered three options:

    • gallery support
    • web based stats just for Windows Phone 8,
    • native Reader.

    We decided to go with gallery support since already have a patch ready to go (props @sendhil).  Our plan is to release version 2.0 with galleries along with the bug fixes and stats improvements.

    Mockups

    @karmatosed shared a new mockup with us and we talked about what we would like to see in a tutorial for first time users of the app.  We all liked the idea of a walk-through that tells a story.  After some discussion it came down to two use cases,

    • a walk-through that starts once a user signs in the first time
    • a walk-through that is accessible from the welcome screen for new users who are curious, but out of the way of power users who just want to get started

    Based on the discussion, @karmatosed is going to work up a couple of new mockups that show a welcome page with a button to get to the walk-through and a walk-through that happens when that button is clicked.

    Next Week

    The next dev chat will be on Feb 13, 2013 at 16:00 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • Isaac Keyet 4:47 pm on February 6, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Weekly dev chat summary for Feb 6, 2013 

    Chat log.

    Agenda

    • WPiOS 3.4 is out, what’s next?
    • WPAndroid UI Updates
    • WPiOS Welcome Screen Wireframes
    • Mobile Handbook

    WPiOS 3.4 is out, what’s next?

    We highlighted that version 3.4 of WPiOS is now out! There’s a bug fix release in the works that should help with some of the issues that users are seeing. Among other things people are having trouble with the Stats screen. Fixes are coming but we have to resolve the critical issues first.

    Next, we’re working on the Previews release which leverages the new XML-RPC endpoints in WP 3.5 to provide “real” previews of posts and better revision control (don’t want people losing their content ever, if we can avoid it).

    A proposed new release schedule for bug fixes was proposed, where we’d release/announce major versions of apps on Mondays, spend a few days testing and hearing feedback while working on any bug fixes, then submit any bug fixes that Wednesday/Thursday the same week.

    WPAndroid UI Updates

    We have an ActionBar in trunk, and @willnorris got commit access. Things are moving along nicely. The new menu drawer exists in a branch currently that’s being merged to trunk, should be in before the end of the week in a rough state (possibly no icons, and in need of polishing).

    Will has been creating some wireframes/mockups for the app that’s out of scope for this release but should be interesting to see for future discussions (and wrapping our heads around the new style updates and what they can lead to). There will be a few options posted to the dev blog shortly.

    WPiOS Welcome Screen Wireframes

    We discussed the wireframes made by @karmatosed at WC Norway and concluded that we’re all very excited to get started on something like this. Karmatosed opted to create some additional wireframes and start mocking it up, as well as start a discussion around the copy which is going to be a central piece in the project.

    We agreed that a new user flow like this could work for all the main apps we have and would be a good starting point for a more unified experience, so we decided that this is a project that could go in parallel with any other updates to the app that we’re working on.

    Mobile Handbook

    We’re slightly behind in the contributor handbook schedule and are looking to catch up. We’re currently supposed to have the Requirements sections of the Handbook ready. Some parts of the Mobile Handbook are in good shape and are close to being finished from our end. We all vowed to iterate more on the contents and to talk more about it in next week’s chat.

    Other

    @daniloercoli noted that v 1.9.3 of WPWindowsPhone has hit the store and that WPBlackBerry (OS10) 2.2.7 is in review, both being bug fix updates.

    Next Week

    The next dev chat will be on Feb 13, 2013 at 16:00 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • Eric 5:25 pm on January 30, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Weekly Dev Chat Summary for Jan 30, 2013 

    This week’s chat log.

    Agenda:

    • WPiOS French translation
    • WPWinPhone 1.9.2 : status
    • WPiOS 3.4 : Releasing (today?)
    • WPAndroid : status
    • Wireframes

    WPiOS French translation

    Frank Klein (fklu) mentioned that the French localization of WPiOS has new translations waiting to be verified. (Props Frank for taking the time to do the translations.) Glotpress shows the French translation at 65% so it would be great to get these verified and get that number higher.  We’re making an action item to ping polyglots and help get the ball rolling.

    WPWinPhone 1.9.2

    @daniloercoli submitted version 1.9.2 to Microsoft on Tuesday.  This is a bug fix release addressing 12 bugs and crashes. Two more significant issues were identified shortly after the app was submitted. Since there is no mechanism for the developer to reject a submission we will have a 1.9.3 version ready and waiting as soon as 1.9.2 is approved.

    WPiOS 3.4

    Apple has approved the app and it is pending developer release, however, at the last minute a server-side issue was detected.  Our plan is to release the app later today once the server-side bug has been squashed.

    @beaucollins is drafting an announcement post for the blog.

    Congrats to everyone who helped make 3.4 happen!

    WPAndroid

    Version 2.2.7 is in the Google Play store and is looking stable.  We’ll submit to the Nook and Amazon stores today.

    The team is moving forward on the planned UI updates.  Will Norris (willnorris) has already made progress on the new sliding menu and is working on integrating in all the right places.

    Wireframes

    @karmatosed has posted some updated wireframes that are the result conversations with @isaackeyet.  The team will take a look at these and leave comments on the post.

    Next week

    The next dev chat will be on Feb 6, 2013 at 16:00 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • Eric 8:27 pm on January 16, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Weekly Dev Chat Summary for Jan 16, 2013 

    Chat log (once its available).

    Agenda

    • WPiOS 3.3.1 Released
    • WPiOS 3.4 Status
    • WPWinPhone 1.9.1 Status
    • WPAndroid 2.2.6
    • WPBlackBerry for BBOS10
    • Wireframes and User Test (karmatosed)
    • Handbook Status/Questions

    WPiOS 3.3.1 Released

    WordPress for iOS version 3.3.1 was approved by Apple last week and is available in the App Store. We have seen an early trend of a 50% drop in crash reports with this release! (Go Team!) We noted three major issues remaining are:

    • Draft posts disappearing
    • Issues with logins
    • Issues with media uploads

    We will plan to address these following the release of 3.4.

    WPiOS 3.4 Status

    We’re continue to test version 3.4. There are a few todos remaining but the hope to submit to Apple Thursday.

    WPWinPhone 1.9.1 Status

    Microsoft rejected version 1.9.1 due to an issue with localization. According to their email:

    The application’s UI text is not localized to the targeted language PortugalPortuguese. Instead, it is displayed in English.

    No changes to localizations were made in this release which leads us to think Microsoft changed something in their app review process regarding localizations. We believe specifying a specific localization culture instead of a neutral culture (“pr-PR” instead of “pr”) will satisfy the app review issue. We are submitting the app with this change, but will also reach out to Microsoft directly for any insight they might provide.

    WPAndroid 2.2.6

    @mrroundhill has new version of WPAndroid is beta. Announcements have been made on the dev blog and on twitter. The new version includes the holo theme support for Android devices running a more recent version of the platform, fixes to https and two crashes, and other optimizations. We’ll plan on releasing the app on Google Play Monday. Props to @willnorris for his contributions to this release!

    WPBlackBerry for BBOS10

    @daniloercoli has updated WPAndroid 2.2.6 to be supported on BlackBerry OS 10 when it launches. The new BlackBerry OS will be officially announced January 30th. We will submit the updated app to BlackBerry this coming Friday or Monday so it will be available to BlackBerry users as soon as the new OS and devices are available to the public.

    Wireframes and User Test

    @karmatosed has posted some updated UI examples and also provided a write up of her experience using WPiOS. We skimmed these quickly and decided for @karmatosed and @isaackeyet to talk more in-depth after the dev chat.

    Handbook Status/Questions

    @raggedrobins (irc: siobhan) joined us to field any questions we might have about the handbooks and offered to help out where able.

    @isaackeyet reminded all that the draft mobile handbook is located at http://make.wordpress.org/mobile/handbook/ and of a conversation about the TOC on the blog.  We also have the goal of finalizing the table of contents by January 25th.

    We talked about adding a “Ways to Get Involved” page after the introduction section and a General Guides section before tips and tricks.  We also commented that it would be nice to have screenshots where possible.

    Next week’s dev chat

    The next dev chat will be on Jan 23, 2013 at 16:00 UTC. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • daniloercoli 4:57 pm on January 3, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Version 1.9 of WordPress for Windows Phone was submitted for review today!
    It should be live in a week from now.
    A draft of the announcement post is available on the site here: http://windowsphone.wordpress.org/

     

  • Isaac Keyet 4:44 pm on January 2, 2013 Permalink | Reply
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    Weekly dev chat summary for Jan 2, 2013

    Today’s chat log.

    Agenda

    WPWindowsPhone 1.9

    The dev team provided a little heads up for the progress on WPWindowsPhone 1.9: the update is due to be submitted tomorrow (Jan 3). It includes Featured Images, media improvements, crash and bug fixes (see Trac). Announcement post needs to be drafted.

    Mobile Handbook

    We acknowledged that there’s content to be written for the Mobile Handbook. We’ll all review it and discuss leading up to next week’s dev chat. We decided that there’s a need to have a section on Windows Phone development, @daniloercoli and @aerych will tag-team on that. We also said that it’s better to stay ahead of the curve and start writing ASAP. We’ll all start writing within the next few weeks – some of us have already started.

    WPiOS Mockups

    We discussed @karmatosed‘s wireframes briefly, and decided to continue discussing in the comments of the post leading up to next week. We’re also looking forward to some revised/new wireframes and a review of the (iOS) WP app – pain points and revelations.

    Next week’s dev chat

    The next dev chat will be a regular one and we’ll have it on Jan 9, 2013 at 16:00 UTC as usual. Mark your calendar and join us in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.

     

  • Dan 9:04 pm on September 26, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    Mobile Dev Chat Summary for Sep 26, 2012

    We had a shorter meeting this week but still had some good discussion (chat log):

    Agenda:

    • WPAndroid 2.2. Launch Update
    • 3.5 XML-RPC Improvements
    • WPWindowsPhone 1.7 Discussion

    WPAndroid 2.2. Launch Update

    3.5 XML-RPC Improvements

    • Patch for #21397 was reviewed with some feedback, and @markoheijnen updated it and added a new patch. Team is doing their best to get this in 3.5 still.

    WPWindowsPhone 1.7 Discussion

    • A bit of trac cleanup for 1.7 has been done, but more needed. @irbrad will review the milestone.
    • @daniloercoli has picked up a few tickets and will likely start dev next week.
    • We discussed how to get up and running with the Windows Phone 8 SDK.
     

    • Marko Heijnen 10:03 pm on September 27, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      Revisions has been added to core now. I still want to double check it. I also did a check on the new user methods (#18428) and found a bug that wp.getUsers can’t return everything.

      Now looking into the rest of the tickets for 3.5 and hoping to get some improvements on media #21085 but that is going to be tricky since we passed the hard freeze date

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