John James Jacoby: WordCamp.org
Action item: Open source the base theme, and then plugins that we use so people can contribute to them
- Talked about pain points that organizers have for using WordCamp.org
Andy Stratton: Commercial Plugins and Quality Control
Action item: Should push people in support forums to the right place
- Kill switches?
Brian Layman: How can developers with small plugins make money and be legit?
Action item: Show top downloaded, recently added (6mo?) plugins on the plugin repo to promote new authors
- Plugin stores often do allow GPL plugins
- Many reasons why it might be better to release it on your own: customers are your customers not theirs.
- Freemium is a workable model but donation really is not
- Should approach established plugin companies establish a relationship and see if they want to publish your plugin.
Cristi Burcă (Scribu): Future of Multisite
Action item: wp-signup.php converted to theme templates, domain mapping in core
- There are two main use cases: untrusted users, groups of sites
- Focused mainly on the second use case
- Hard to share data between sites (though switch_to_blog() is faster now)
- Long term goal: better support for multiple networks
- Should set up a team for handling multisite tickets in Trac
Tom Wilmot: How WP Businesses can Give Back
Action item: Mailing list for agencies to combine resources on contributing
- Many businesses want to give back
- Agencies might be good at tack
Mike Adams: JS
Action item: Blog more on make/core under JS tag
- Why are people less proficient in JS
- Codex and handbook improvements
- More unit tests
Daryl Koopersmith: Customizer future
Action item: roadmap for core to allow for those other use cases, and have theme review team recommend using the customizer in core
- Not just in theme switching but outside that
- Post preview, site creation, onboarding
Michael Fields: Pain when theme switching
Action item: Push findings to community and make plugin to bulk associated featured images to post, and core fix for widgets
- Widgets get lost
- Featured images might be required but missing
Mitcho: Plugin performance and security
Action item: Individual plugin reviews on wordpress.org, and Example of a bad plugin, checking of syntax errors pre commit
- We really need three approaches: education, reviews, automation
- Capture the flag competition?
Simon Wheatley: Abandoned plugins
Action item: Discuss and define policy for taking over a plugin by another author
- Difficulty of reaching plugin authors
- Forking plugins
- Merging patches
- Support levels for plugins? Bug, product, user queries?
- Advertise plugins for adoption
- Recognize a plugin as a fork
Sara Cannon: WordPress and Women
Action item: Positive code of conduct, encourage women to speak at local meetups
- General tech problem, not just WP
- WP Community better than most communities
- Still want to have a positive code of conduct
Aaron Jorbin: Meetups
Action item: Meetup organizers made authors on make/events
- Could share remote programming
- What programs work and which don’t?
- Sustaining membership
Peter Chester: Updates
Action item: differentiate between security, major, minor releases
- Opt in vs opt out
- Plugin or theme upgrades
- Security vs major vs minor
- Ability to do rollback painlessly
- APIs to trigger an upgrade
- Plugins reverted when WSOD on upgrade
- File verification
- Data migration
- Plugins specify major/minor
- More information on make/core — point by point plan
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