Revisions Update, for 18th Jan 2013

As Aaron posted before the revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. team has two clear focuses:

  • Fixing the Author Attribution issue – #16215
  • Improving the usability of the differences for the average user.

So far most of our discussion has been in the comment thread of Aarons post and I want to catch up on the in-person discussion and start in earnest on fleshing out the direction.

To that end I’m going to spend the majority of Monday the 21st working through the current ideas and also reviewing any revisions related tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets to pull together our direction and I invite all interested parties to join me for a discussion session starting at 1400 UTC on #wordpress-dev.

It would be great if @karmatosed, @ethitter, @adamsilverstein could all be there and we can also arrange when our regular office hours will be.

#3-6, #revisions