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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Mobile group update for Dec 24 2012 Sweden…
Mobile group update for Dec 24, 2012
Sweden celebrates on Dec 24 so I was off. Here’s an update for what happened last week and what’s going down this week.
Project updates (key: WPPlatformName):
WPiOS
We’ve been cutting the corners to make sure that the Notifications update can be submitted asap when Apple allows submissions again (starting Dec 28, 2012). We’re definitely close. Still some UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. clean up needed and some pending APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. changes on the WPcom side.
WPWindowsPhone
The Featured Images dev cycle has started, the new feature is almost in. We’re set for an early January submission, looks like first week will be a good time.
This week
Short week due to the holidays, here’s what’s planned:
- WPiOS Notifications: test release, review UI
- WPWindowsPhone: continue work on v 1.9 (Featured Images) and get ready to submit
Support Team – December 25th
What? I don’t celebrate Christmas.
We’ve been working with the Docs team to finish up the Support Handbook, and working on getting more Forum Mods. Jan has been headhunting people, but as always, if you’re interested, please join the forum mailing list. We’re not that active, so don’t worry about spam. Then feel free to mention “I’d like to help with…”
I’m still the forum lead rep, and we’re working on figuring out my second, since the votes were small and close.
Plugin Directory Team Update for 12/24
The 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 Directory’s day-to-day mission is fairly consistent. It’s largely what we’ve done this past week and what we’ll continue to do in the coming week. This is summarized in our intro and first status report.
Highlights from this week:
- Mika posted GPL and the Repository to make/plugins to better explain the plugin directory’s policy regarding GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples.. Also included were a list of frequently used, though non-GPL, JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. libraries. In short, plugins containing non-GPL code or resources will reject or closed.
Here are stats from the last week.
Plugins Directory:
- Requested : 204
- Rejected : 58
- Closed: 22
- Approved: 151
- Commits by plugin authors: 3,861
- Currently in the request queue: 64 (11 older than one week; 22 with no replies)
Plugins support emails:
- New: 140 (137 closed, 3 still open)
- Currently open: 17 (only 2 with no activity in the last week)
Polyglots Team Update 18th December
This week
Group chat about:
- Inclusion of locale activity on the user profiles — according to @jjj, in 2013, we’re going to try moving everything into BP’s activity stream tables, likely with callbacks to reduce the load where we can.
- Global.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/ — should it exist and if so what does it look like? — Everyone agrees it should, with all the (translatable) info on how to contribute, similar to the make page. Cátia will be preparing a spec.
- Strategy for reviving locale forums with the 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 format — according to @nacin, this is not a complicated task, but before we start it, I need to list all the relevant questions regarding the special way in which permissions are handled in rosetta (i.e. editor, validator and moderator profiles). To keep in mind: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19011 for international forums urls.
- Updates to the rosetta theme to match wordpress.org — much of this will open sourced by @nacin within a month, we can then start contributing there.
- Review team reps voting results — are they in?
No chat/hangout scheduled for next week, as everyone is mostly gone for the week.
Next week
- Schedule chat/hangout for week of 1 Jan. 2013
- Cátia — Start the spec for the “global” page
- @vanillalounge — Start the spec for rosetta forums
- Present the handbooks project internally, recruit help
Docs Team Update 18th December
The past week the major focus of the docs team has been on updating the WordPress CodexWordPress Codex Living online manual to WordPress.org https://codex.wordpress.org/ to get it up to date after the release of 3.5. On Thursday 13th – Friday 14th we had a virtual documentation sprint in which we attacked our master list of Codex updates. We completed almost all of the items on the list! You can see the completed list here.
The people involved in the sprint worked really hard. They were: Jerry Bates (@jerrysarcastic), Jonathan Wold (@sirjonathan), Philip Erb (@philerb), Curtis McHale (@curtismchale), Mika Epstein (@ipstenu), Jason Hoffman (@jhoffm34), and Marko Heijnen (@markoheijnen).
Particular thanks to Drew Jaynes (@DrewAPicture) who helped to drive the whole thing and worked extremely hard the whole time.
There are some developer items still incomplete, so If anyone on the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team, or any other developers, could take a quick look and update any items that would be fantastic. Most of them will only take a few moments to do. Just leave a message in the comments to say that you’ve done it and we can tick it off.
Since it was so successful, we’d like to have more documentation sprints in the future. These will be focused around major updates, ongoing projects, and areas that need tackled in the Codex. As well as holding virtual doc sprints, we’re interested in the idea of running doc sprints at hack days at WordCamps.
Final note: it would help us to compile lists of things that need updated if the core team could start using the needs-codex tag in their workflow.
Theme Review Team Update for 12/18
We are getting more help and promoting the trainees to full time reviewers after several complete reviews. Chip started with this while ago and it seems like great motivation.
Support Team Update for 12/18
With the fallout mitigated, support is back to the daily grind of spammers, trolls, and encouraging people to switch to decaf. The codex sprint was awesome (Docs will have more on that), and we took a back seat in IRC to that this week. The forums are pretty much as they ever are, a couple high profile issues caught our attention, but the angor is about the same as it was for 3.3 (3.4 was the miracle release).
There’s a new ‘getting started in support’ page on Make/Support for people interested in getting involved but aren’t sure how, and a start to the eternal ‘How do I become a mod?’ question has been answered. Please ask questions! Can’t find the holes without you 🙂 Also we voted for team reps last week, so we’ll find out any day now who the new ones are.
https://make.wordpress.org/support/
Plugin Directory Team Update for 12/17
The 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 Directory’s day-to-day mission is fairly consistent. It’s largely what we’ve done this past week and what we’ll continue to do in the coming week. This is summarized in our intro and first status report.
A few highlights from this week:
- Team rep voting.
- We’re about to add a new member to the team.
Here are stats from the last week.
Plugins Directory:
- Requested : 178
- Rejected : 41
- Closed: 11
- Approved: 134
- Commits by plugin authors: 3,861
- Currently in the request queue: 85 (9 older than one week; 44 with no replies)
Plugins support emails:
- New: 129 (107 closed, 22 still open)
- Currently open: 27 (only 1 with no activity in the last week)
Mobile Group update for Dec 17 2012 Project…
Mobile Group update for Dec 17, 2012
Project updates (key: WPPlatformName):
WPiOS
Notifications release is still a ways out, didn’t get to the testing phase last week. We’ll issue a bug fix release in between and have just started putting it together.
WPWindowsPhone
Bug fix update 1.8.1 was submitted today (Monday) and includes fixes for devices with taller screens. We’ll now start working on v. 1.9 which will have Featured ImageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. support as it’s title feature.
This Week
- WPiOS Notifications: clean up the remaining UIUI UI is an acronym for User Interface - the layout of the page the user interacts with. Think ‘how are they doing that’ and less about what they are doing. and implement WPcom APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. changes and blog-level Push Notification settings.
- WPWindowsPhone Featured Images: start dev cycle (ETA TBD).