Meeting Summary for February 18, 2010 Dev Chat

  • Menu management needs work. Jeffikus and wpmuguru will work together this week to try some fixing up to use custom post types. Dogfooddogfood The practice of using one's own software, typically bleeding edge (trunk), thus "eating one's own dogfood". This also applies to using one's own APIs internally., eaten.
  • Rboren says we can bump jQuery UI to 1.7.2 in core to work with menus.Made change during meeting: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/13201
  • We’re behind schedule. Going to bump 2 weeks to target for launch May 1. Will update project schedule page later tonight.
  • WordPress Planet discussion not coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. code talk, so going to set up a forum thread on 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/.
  • Westi going to write up a short description for this site about what is considered in scope for dev chats.
  • Core plugins are coming along slowly but surely. When there’s something to look at westi will announce it. Both health-check and post-by-email are close to Alpha state. Anyone interested in getting involved should join the appropriate mailing list: https://plugins.lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo
  • Nacin, our most recently added committer, has created a report, https://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/32, that lists all enhancements and feature requests <= 3.0. That excludes tasks, bugs, and multisite (since we need to include these things).
  • Taking advantage of the delayed schedule, next week will be a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. sprint.