Jen 9:28 pm on December 30, 2010
Tags: 2011, , priorities   

If anyone missed the post on the news bl…

If anyone missed the post on the news blog, we’re planning for the core leadership meetup, which’ll be Jan 10-16, 2011. We’ll set up some kind of video town hall etc, but will also be working heads down to work out priorities for the coming year, and will emerge from the meetup with some sort of general plan/roadmap. First, if you haven’t dropped your thoughts onto the agenda suggestions/questions thread, please do: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-should-2011-hold-for-wordpress
Second, off the top of my head, I can think of ___ fairly big-deal 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. challenges we’ll want to tackle this year:

  • Media uploader (here’s where we left off last year)
  • Plugins screen (possibly including UI for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. plugins?)
  • Settings (all)
  • Tabs, tabs, tabs
  • Some love for the comment screen
  • Updates screen
  • Themes screen (maybe a list view vs blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. view?)
  • Improve widgets
  • Improve menus
  • Improve multisiteMultisite Multisite is a WordPress feature which allows users to create a network of sites on a single WordPress installation. Available since WordPress version 3.0, Multisite is a continuation of WPMU or WordPress Multiuser project. WordPress MultiUser project was discontinued and its features were included into WordPress core.https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network. screens (all)
  • The bigass CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. streamlining that John set up with his work in 3.1
  • AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)
  • Possibilities for simplifying screens. Maybe distros?

Definitely add comments to the forum thread, but also feel free to post thoughts here about projects each of you would be most interested in working on personally. I’d like to form a number of small teams to work on first rounds of each thing, then review and improve as a larger group as needed, to keep things moving. There will be a number of designers joining in after the new year, so we should have enough people for several teams.

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