Results and Feedbacks about BuddyPress 6.0.0
6.0.0 was released on May 14. The first subject we’ve discussed about was checking for issues related to this release that may have been published into our support forums. @vapvarun has been very active on support forums lately and confirmed there wasn’t any topics specific to this release.
@im4th talked about statistics and more precisely about this release’s download pike. It was reached on May 15 with 28300 downloads: almost 5K more than the 5.0.0’s download pike.
@im4th congratulated all BuddyPress contributors who got involved into the 6.0.0 release and did a great work.
What we think went well during the 6.0.0 development cycle?
For @mercime we had more contributors, “Fast-and-furious commits” and we kept enough time for polyglots (2 weeks of string freeze) to let them contribute to the translation of the 6.0.0 release.
@dcavins was pleased by the activity & engagement of this release lead 😍.
@im4th was happy we could work on the priority we defined after the 5.0.0 release : work on getting more beta-testers to help us add the final touches to 6.0.0 : the BP Beta Tester plugin has been published on the WordPress.org Plugins directory and it does the job pretty well according to @dcavins “BP Beta Tester is fantastic“.
We also said we were happy:
- We shipped BuddyPress 6.0.0 huge props to every contributor
- We shipped the 2020 BP Survey (If you haven’t replied to it yet, do it right away!) Huge props to @mercime
- We completed the BP REST API and updated the reference documentation. Huge props to @espellcaste and @mercime
- We moved user profile photos & cover images from xProfile to Members, and so far: nothing broke! Self Props to @im4th 😉.
- @mercime added: we introduced the 2 first BuddyPress blocks. Props to @karmatosed @espellcaste & @im4th
- JavaScript translations are working!
- We gave props to the 4 polyglots contributors who made the plugin available in French, Spanish (Costa Rica), English (UK) & Romanian as soon as the plugin was updated!
What we think should be improved during the 7.0.0 development cycle?
- We haven’t managed to motivate Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch & Russian polyglots contributors. It’s really too bad BuddyPress is no fully translated into these languages.
- We haven’t made progress on make.buddypress.org (@imath’s bad), we should try to set up this site to organize contributions and bring our development updates from this site to the BuddyPress.org network.
- We haven’t moved any AJAX features to the BP REST API, we should try to benefit from the BP REST API (as soon as it’s possible) to improve the performance of the BuddyPress plugin.
PS: if you’d like to share your opinions about these two sections, you’re welcome to do so commenting this summary.
The 2020 BP Survey
@mercime gave us the very first learnings of this survey:
- the majority of participants are using shared hosting and activate BuddyPress in their root WordPress sites.
- Most are using the BP Nouveau Template pack.
- Plugins and themes developer are testing BuddyPress with the latest stable BuddyPress release.
- 60% of the contributors who are testing BuddyPress are using BP Beta Tester.
- Most are checking the changelog to see what has evolved during the development cycle.
Of course these points are temporary results. We’ll be more specific as soon as the survey will be ended.
7.0.0 features wishlist
As we were running out of time @im4th suggested to publish a call for tickets on this blog, just like WordPress does on their Make WP/Core blog. We also agreed to think about it for the next 2 weeks and use our next development meeting to share our ideas. @IAmTheWebb suggested to organize a survey to “ask for feedback on features people would want“. @im4th thinks results of such survey are a bit difficult to use. We’ve experienced it for Blocks and we were not so convinced by the involvement it got. He also added he’s rather have something like “what feature do you want to contribute to for 7.0.0 release?“. We’ll test the call for tickets, it’s a good way to show how we are contributing to BuddyPress on our tool to manage the BuddyPress code source.
Next dev chat
It will happen on June 3rd at 19:00 UTC and of course in #BuddyPress. If you have ideas or questions, feel free (and we are strongly encouraging you) to comment this summary to share them!
Start picking the BuddyPress tickets, you’d like us to work on, we’ll soon publish the “BuddyPress 7.0.0 call for tickets” 😉
#6-0-0, #7-0-0, #survey
