Hi !
November 13 dev chat didn’t really happened because of time confusion due to daylight saving time change. Sorry about it.
Let’s try to meet tomorrow: Wednesday November 27 December 4 at 19:00 UTC.
This new time is taking in account DST and this new day makes sure you can enjoy Thanksgiving with your family 😉
About the agenda, let’s progress on what was planned for November 13:
https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/bp-dev-chat-agenda-november-13-2019/
Hi BuddyPress contributors!
This is the agenda for our next Dev Chat which will happen this Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (tomorrow!!) in #BuddyPress. Please note we’ve changed our meeting’s time to 18:00 UTC.
If you have anything you wish to add (or remove) to this agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.
The next maintenance release (5.1.0) for BuddyPress is available for testing, you can read more about it here: https://buddypress.org/2019/11/buddypress-5-1-0-beta1/
We’re also testing a new plugin to help you test future BuddyPress beta and release candidates: BP Beta Tester.
Thanks in advance for your tests ♥️
@im4th shared the final result of the poll. There was 161 votes and top results are mostly corresponding to existing widgets. Here are the “top expected blocks” :
@johnjamesjacoby confirmed Widgets were obvious converts and @boonebgorges suggested to work on the block highlighting a single Group (10 votes) as a starting point. Highlighting a single group is not something we make possible yet and he confirmed it’s something people want. We’ve decided to:
Moreover, we’re very happy to announce @karmatosed (Tammie Lister) will give us a hand about designing BuddyPress Blocks 😍 🙌
Before releasing this maintenance version to fix these issues, @im4th will package a 5.1.0-beta release so that we can test the BP Beta Tester plugin with a “real world” example. Once the results of this test are satisfying, we’ll publish the plugin on the WordPress.org directory.
@espellcaste shared the latest news about it. We’ve been talking about adding a controller to manage the Blogs avatar. Renato is wondering why we are falling back to the Blog’s Administrator’s avatar if the site does not include a Site icon. @dcavins thinks it only makes sense when displayed blogs are really “weblogs”. @im4th will soon create an issue on the GH repository of the BP REST API to explain why this fallback choice was made.
NB: To work on the Blogs avatars, we first need to have this ticket (#8150) fixed (in particular for the get_item() controller’s method).
@espellcaste also talked about the historical dependency of users local avatars to the xProfile component. So far, it’s not possible to upload/delete a local avatar using the Member’s Avatar controller if the xProfile is inactive. As a result, the BP REST API documentation has been updated and 5.1.0 will move this controller’s loading into the xProfile component’s class. @im4th as he “promised” during the dev-chat has been working on trying to make the local avatar and the cover image Members features for 6.0.0. There’s already a first patch available for testing/review on this ticket (#8156).
@espellcaste finally talked about the decisions he made about developing a BP GraphQL API using the WP-GraphQL plugin: he’ll focus more on specific components rather than adding support to several components.
As there were only 5 minutes left, @im4th briefly announced the work he has been doing about moving the BP Devel site (this site) to a new Make.BuddyPress.org site (see #5525). This ticket contains screenshots and the needed plugins and themes to make it possible. Please have a look at this 🙏
@dcavins also reminded everyone he was expecting more feedbacks about his ticket dealing with “Network Invitations and Membership Requests” (see #8139). Thanks in advance for looking at it 👀
2 other tickets are needing feedbacks: please have a look at them before our next dev-chat:
It will happen on November 13 at 18:00 UTC in #BuddyPress.
PS: if you have ideas or questions, feel free (and we are strongly encouraging you) to comment this summary to share them!
Hi !
Please note that BuddyPress 6.0.0 will require WordPress >= 4.8.
To learn more about this change: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8155
To learn more about how we decide to bump our WordPress required version: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/wordpress-version-compatibility/
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Hi BuddyPress contributors!
This is the agenda for our next Dev Chat which will happen this Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (tomorrow!!) in #BuddyPress. Please note we’ve changed our meeting’s time to 18:00 UTC.
If you have anything you wish to add to this agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.
The Dev Chat started 20 minutes late: we’re not completely used to the new meeting time (NB: 18:00 UTC every other wednesday)
@im4th posted the poll on this site and into a topic of the BuddyPress forums on October 10. After 6 days, the community participation is very week. It’s difficult to figure out what are people expectations. Here are the “top blocks” :
The least we can say is there doesn’t seem to be a great enthousiasm for BuddyPress Blocks… As JJJ said maybe “the concept of BuddyPress blocks is not an easy one”.
This is a subject we couldn’t talk about during previous dev chat. There are a lot of topics posted on forums, and a lot are remaining without replies. @johnjamesjacoby thinks and I guess he’s right:
I believe, in general, the more activity there is from BuddyPress maintainers on the site, the more that others are likely to engage with us and each other.
So the first thing we can do is to try to contribute ourselves to forum replies as much as we can. Then here are the other ideas we had :
make.BuddyPress.org site might help to bring some new contributors to forums. (@im4th announced he will soon share the work he has been doing about this project).To follow up the nice discussion @im4th had with David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) we’ve been briefly talking about this possible way of gathering BuddyPress contributors from all around the world for a day of conferences / chats. We’ll come back on the subject with David once the WordCamp US is behind us as he’s pretty busy contributing to its Programming team.
The GitHub repository for the BuddyPress Beta Tester plugin has been published. According to @im4th‘s tests, it’s working fine. To test it with a real Beta Version, @im4th suggested to soon package a 5.1.0-beta. We’ll need to publish it on the WordPress.org official directory once we feel it’s ready.
@espellcaste made great progress about the remaining endpoints of the BP REST API. There are now 3 more endpoints available for testing using the BP REST API Plugin :
@im4th suggested to carry on doing the survey @mercime used to do every year for a while now. The last one was done at the end of 2017 for 2018.
It will happen on October 30 at 18:00 UTC in #BuddyPress. Friendly reminder that we moved our dev-chat time to one hour earlier, 🙏 don’t miss it!
PS: if you have ideas or questions, feel free (and we are strongly encouraging you) to comment this summary to share them!
