Weekly dev chat summary for Oct 21, 2013
Agenda:
- Android Status
- iOS Status
- GSoC Projects
- Handbook
- This week
Android Status
- 2.5: A handful of issues were found during QA and the team has been working on fixes. There are currently two left. Once these are sorted the QA cycle will restart.
- Development for the next release (2.6) with an improved welcome/signup flow and Native Reader is finished and ready for testing.
iOS Status
- Last week was a good bug fixing sprint and 3.8.4 is almost ready and we’ll be starting testing soon.
- 3.8.3 status – crashes are way down and reviews are improving a bit. Still seeing some login issues that need to be worked on but the majority of the issues still being reported are fixed in 3.8.4.
GSoC Projects
- The code for the GSoC BlackBerry and Firefox OS WordPress apps has been added to the WordPress-Mobile github repos. There is more work to do on both apps before they are ready for a v 1.0 release.
Handbook
- Missing iOS parts are still a WIP.
- New release schedule page is just about ready.
- Versluis expressed his interest in helping out with the handbook.
This week
- iOS : finish 3.8.4, testing and submit!
- Android: fix remaining issues with 2.5 an another round of QA. Go after some quick wins on github tickets and other ui improvements.
Next Dev Chat
Join us next week on Monday Oct 28 at 16:00 UTC in #wordpress-mobile on Freenode.
Jay Versluis 5:19 pm on October 21, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Inspired by our chat I’ve just added a couple of additions to the following handbook entries:
What’s the policy on screenshots in the handbook? I’m happy to provide some to illustrate further points, but currently there’s no media upload button showing for me.
Eric 6:55 pm on October 21, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Nice additions. Its pretty awesome that you dove right in.
I have two small suggestions:
Screen shots would be great to have. I’m not sure why you wouldn’t be seeing a media upload button unless it was something related to your user role on the make blog. Are you editing from the wp-admin or from the page itself?
Jay Versluis 10:44 pm on October 21, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks Eric! I remember those areas were throwing me when I first tried to build WordPress. Totally agree with those changes, I’ve amended the headings and tried my best to re-word the space replacement.
Re: media uploads – I’ve tried both the inline edit button, as well as wp-admin, both links get me to the admin interface, but no luck on the upload button either way.
Jay Versluis 6:02 pm on October 21, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I’ve also fleshed out this page about testing and reporting issues: