Title: Devhub update 16th December
Author: Siobhan
Published: December 16, 2014

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/siobhan/) [Siobhan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/siobhan/)
8:29 pm _on_ December 16, 2014     
Tags: [devhub ( 37 )](https://make.wordpress.org/docs/tag/devhub/)

# Devhub update 16th December

Apologies for my lack of updates of late. Meetings have been going on in SlackSlack
Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/).
The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/),
but I’ve not been good at writing up the notes.-

This week we discussed:

 * **parser** – [@coffee2code](https://profiles.wordpress.org/coffee2code/) will
   be running the parser after 4.1 lands tomorrow. Re-parsing will reveal some new
   goodies, such as the Used by/Uses information
 * **explanations** – [@drew](https://profiles.wordpress.org/drew/) has a patch 
   to scott to review. Once explanations land we’ll start testing them.
 * **design** – jan, who’s on the dot org team at automattic will be redesigning
   devhub in the new year
 * **related content** – we discussed [ #174](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/174)–
   link to generally related functions/classes. We’ll return to it next week after
   the Used by/Uses information lands.
 * **plan for 4.1 parsing** – [@coffee2code](https://profiles.wordpress.org/coffee2code/)
   will run the parser tomorrow shortly after release. Please be available in the
   devhub room in case we have issues (especially you [@Rarst](https://profiles.wordpress.org/Rarst/)
   🙂 )

**Committed this past week:**

 * Introduced get_summary() and used it. Abstracted the fact the summary (aka short
   description) is stored in post_excerpt, primarily to force display of special
   characters.
 * Displayed function/method return types in the same style as parameter types (
   parenthesized, italicized)
 * Italicized parameter types in the display of the method signature
 * Enabled display of inline source code for classes
 * Moved formatting-related code into dedicated include file

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