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imath 9:36 pm on November 10, 2020
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BP Dev-Chat Summary: November 4, 2020

7.0.0 latest updates

@im4th started the meeting sharing that the ticket (#8179) about the default Blog avatar has been committed and that a developer note has been published on this site. @vapvarun suggested we should respect some consistency about the UI we use when setting a group’s types or a member’s types. A ticket (#8389) has since been reported and fixed: from now on the WP-Admin/Extended Profile’s member type metabox will use checkboxes.

@im4th has updated the BP REST API’s Blogs Endpoint so that it enjoys the improvement we brought about the default Blog avatar (#BP-REST-358). He said he had no time to update the BP REST API developers documentation, but as he felt pretty guilty about it, he worked on it lately and made good progress as only the Signups and Friends Endpoints need a documentation review.

@dcavins has been working on updating the list of Props from our Trac environment and @im4th worked on the list of Props from the BP REST plugin GitHub repository. A patch is ready about these updates (#8376). Here are our progress about 7.0.0 release tasks.

TasksOwnerProgress
BP REST API documentation updates@im4th90%
BP Survey results@im4th0%
7.0.0 Release note@vapvarun0%
7.0.0 Credits update:
– BuddyPress Trac
– BP REST GitHub repository
@dcavins
@im4th
100%
100%
7.0.0 Pizza Restaurant name@dcavins🤫
7.0.0 Announcement post@im4th0%

Last checks before releasing 7.0.0-beta2

We’ve decided to postpone the 7.0.0-beta2 release to tomorrow (November 11th, 2020). @im4th was concerned about a cache issue (#8388) that was reported lately about the xProfile component. @dcavins volunteered to work on it and has since contributed to 2 patches. Don’t hesitate to comment on the ticket to share with him your thoughts about our 2 possible ways to fix this issue. @vapvarun brought to our attention another issue (#8386) that was reported about the BP Nouveau Template pack. @im4th volunteered to work on it. It has been since fixed. @im4th also asked @vapvarun to test the patch attached to the ticket (#8384) about making sure Site Icons / Blog avatars synchronization is also happening when BuddyPress is not network activated on multisite configurations. He recently tested it and we will probably include it into the 7.0.0-beta2 release. Finally @johnjamesjacoby improved the new strings we introduced about the BP Types UI 🤝. We finally agreed on this new schedule for the 7.0.0 development cycle.

  • 7.0.0-Beta2: November 11.
  • 7.0.0-RC: November 18.
  • 7.0.0 final release: December 9.

Open floor

@vapvarun shared his enthusiasm about the promising download results of the BuddyX theme he recently submitted on the WordPress.org Themes Directory 🍕👏📈. As it’s a beautiful BuddyPress theme, @im4th asked him to work on a post to share his experience about the process he had to go through to have his theme hosted on the official Themes Directory. We will soon publish this post on BuddyPress.org 🎨 .

We also talked about the BuddyPress code reference, it’s still under construction but @vapvarun ran some tests about it lately so we might progress about it soon!

Next Dev-Chat

It will happen on November 18 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!

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imath 10:08 am on October 25, 2020
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BP Dev-Chat Summary: October 21, 2020

7.0.0-beta1 feedbacks

7.0.0-beta1 was released on October 16. So far, nothing specific to it was posted into our support forums. At the time we had the meeting, @im4th, thanks to @IAmTheWebb tests, had reported an issue (now fixed) with the Activity Embed block into our Trac environment. This last Friday @k3690 reported a wrong usage of the member term into a Group Type meta property (now fixed).

7.0.0 remaining tickets

  • #8292 @vapvarun submitted a patch during the meeting 💪, @im4th reviewed it some time after, brought some minor improvements and it has been fixed yesterday. It’s now possible to assigned more than one member types to users from their WP Admin Extended Profile 🙌 .
  • About #8179, @im4th asked @vapvarun to update the ticket with 2 squared corner avatars with these dimensions: 150px x 150px (full) & 50px x 50px (thumb). @im4th will try to progress on a patch in the meantime.
  • We’ve postponed #8093 (Profile Field visibility improvements) to a next milestone.
  • #8375 was reopened by the reporter, as the filter we’ve added wasn’t matching its needs. @dcavins @johnjamesjacoby & @im4th have been discussing about it last week in #BuddyPress and came to the conclusion a possible better place to allow the invitation table’s name filtering was to include the {$bp_prefix}bp_invitations table name into the global_tables property of the BP_Members_Component object. @dcavins will investigate this week about that possible change.
  • Finally shortly after our meeting, @boonebgorges reported a new ticket about improving the xprofile_get_field() function so that it only pulls up the data for a field when necessary. The patch he suggested as a first step looks safe to @im4th who thinks it should be included into the 7.0.0 release: it’s always great to improve DB performance. Please have a look at #8378 and send him some feedbacks about your thoughts.

7.0.0 release schedule update

We are going to package a new 7.0.0-beta to include as much fixes as possible considering the previous chapter. Packaging will happen shortly after our next BP Dev-Chat.

  • 7.0.0-beta2: November 4th
  • 7.0.0-RC1: around November 18 (string freeze).
  • 7.0.0: December 1st 🎯

7.0.0 release tasks

The following list of tasks needs to be achieved before we package our next major release (7.0.0).

TasksOwner
BP REST API documentation updates@im4th
BP Survey results@im4th
7.0.0 Release note@vapvarun
7.0.0 Credits update:
– BuddyPress Trac
– BP REST GitHub repository
@dcavins
@im4th
7.0.0 Pizza Restaurant name@dcavins
7.0.0 Announcement post@im4th

NB: we’ll also need to add a patch to #8376 to update our “Hello BuddyPress” modal.

GitHub default branch naming for BuddyPress repositories

This point was moved to a future development meeting. @johnjamesjacoby shared his thoughts about it. Possibilities are main or trunk. FYI WordPress contributors decided to use trunk for repositories of the WordPress organization on August 19.

Open floor

@dcavins asked a question about using the new BuddyPress development environment: when making changes to the BuddyPress source code, he was wondering how is updated the running environment? In other words, do we need to run some specific commands to update it?

@im4th replied changes were automatically taken in account without doing anything more than saving the BuddyPress source code changes. @IAmTheWebb confirmed: “the folder you see outside docker is mapped to inside, so changes you make should appear automagically“

Next Dev-Chat

It will happen on November 4 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!

#7-0-0, #dev-chat, #summary

imath 11:39 am on October 3, 2020
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BP Dev-Chat Summary: September 23, 2020

First, here’s a clarification regarding the context in which this meeting took place : @im4th thought we were a week before 7.0.0-beta1 release 😆 and urge BuddyPress contributors to review the remaining tickets scheduled for the 7.0.0 milestone! We’re now (October 3rd) 2 weeks away from this beta release 😇.

Postponed features

Due to lack of time, we’ve decided to work on the following features during the 8.0.0 development cycle:

  • Attachments for BuddyPress (#8022)
  • BP Members Invitations (#8139)
  • Block based Activity post form (#8319) *
  • Activity Scheduling (#7953) *

* FYI: the BP Blocks plugin used to develop BP Blocks is also used to develop these two features. You can early play with the Block Based Activity post form and the activity scheduling feature, thanks to this plugin, on a testing site. Contributions are always welcome!

7.0.0 updates

  • BP Types UI have been included into Core. It’s now possible to manage Group & Member types from the WordPress administration. More information about it here.
  • The BP REST API now includes a new endpoint to let logged in users to create new blogs (if the network settings allow it). See this GitHub PR.

7.0.0 remaining tickets

7.0.0 BP Blocks

There will be a new block to embed an activity into a post. During the dev chat we agreed it was important to add 2 more blocks : BP Members & BP Groups blocks. See #8369. (The members one has since been built!)

Some great code improvements has been added by @espellcaste into the BP Blocks plugin. He also suggested we start having regular meetings specific to BuddyPress blocks. So here’s a poll to see if you’re interested about it.

Here are some topics we could discuss about during these specific meetings:

  • How to attract WP Block developers to have fun with BP ones?
  • How to smoothly prepare the Block Based Activity post form merge into Core so that BuddyPress Plugins developer can start working on migrating the feature they add to the legacy post form into the block based one?
  • How BuddyPress could benefit from React, WP React components + BP REST API to improve the user experience?
  • What about a “Block ready” Template pack or a BuddyPress standalone theme?

7.0.0 release schedule

  • 7.0.0-beta1: October 15 💆🏻
  • 7.0.0 : December 1st

Open floor

We’ve been discussing about how to improve the way we communicate towards contributors about features/code improvements added to upcoming BuddyPress releases. @im4th suggested to use this blog to post these kind of updates making sure to use the “Development notes” a sub-category of it for the version number. For instance you can quickly read important changes to expect in BuddyPress 7.0.0 from there: Development notes/7.0.

@IAmTheWebb asked us about how he could update some BP Codex pages. Regular contributors we trust like him can ping me @imath on WP Slack or request an access during our Core dev-chats to make this happen! We are very interested into welcoming new Documentation contributors 🙌 🤝.

Next Dev-Chat

It will happen on October 7 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!

#7-0-0, #dev-chat, #summary

imath 1:36 pm on September 12, 2020
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BP Dev-Chat Summary: September 9, 2020

BuddyPress.org redesign project

This project will now have its own development meeting every other Tuesday in #BuddyPress at 19:00 UTC. We’ll start this coming Tuesday: September 15. If you want to help us build the next BuddyPress.org‘s appearance, you are very welcome to join us.

6.3.0 maintenance release

Get ready to update your BuddyPress! We’ll publish this maintenance release early this coming Monday: September 14. An announcement post and a release note on our official site will explain the 3 fixes that will contain the 6.3.0 version of BuddyPress.

7.0.0 release cycle updates

@im4th raised attention on the #8355 ticket. We have an important decision to take about how we’re adding the bp_moderate cap to site Administrators. Me, @boonebgorges and @johnjamesjacoby have been working on this ticket recently and I believe it’s important other Core Developers give this ticket a look and eventually add their feedback to it.

@im4th also shared his decision to start working on adding the BP Types UI (Groups: #7179, Members: #7181) into BuddyPress trunk: expect to see a bunch of commits within the next 2 weeks!

@vapvarun shared his feedbacks about the @wordpress/env module we’ve added last week. He tested it using Microsoft Windows (Many thinks to him 😍 ) and find out it requires 2 other Node development dependencies:

@im4th will look for a way to include these dependencies only when BuddyPress is used on a Microsoft Windows platform.

@dcavins will post the Members Invitations updated patch next week. For 7.0.0 he plans to include the basic features making sure to have hooks at the right place to let plugin developers easily extend them.

After the dev-chat, @espellcaste wrote some updates about his latest contributions to the BP REST API and the BP WP CLI plugins:

  • BP REST API
    • He added improvements to the Travis config
    • We now have support for PHP 7.4
    • He’ll be working on the blog’s create_item endpoint soon and thinks it’ll be ready for the 7.0.0 release :doigts_croisés::couleur_de_peau-5:
  • WP CLI BP
    • He added a new command to scaffold BuddyPress tests to a plugin: wp bp scaffold tests
    • He also added improvements to the Travis config.

7.0.0 release schedule

  • 7.0.0-beta1: October 15 😬
  • 7.0.0 : December 1st

Next Dev-Chat

It will happen on September 23 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!

#6-3-0, #7-0-0, #dev-chat, #summary

imath 9:41 am on August 8, 2020
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BP Dev-Chat summary: july 29, 2020

BP Types UI

We took a decision about whether to package a plugin or directly merge the Member Types and Group Types Administration UI into BuddyPress. BP Types UI will be introduced in BuddyPress 7.0.0. You can already test/review the patch about it.

6.2.0 Maintenance release

We’ve released it as scheduled on August 6. See this announcement post for more info about it.

7.0.0 release cycle updates

@boonebgorges has committed a more permanent fix than the one we included in 6.2.0 about the deprecation of WordPress options containing the black/white terms into their name and also remove these same terms from the xProfile component & moderation code (#8339). If you find some more places in our codebase where we can improve the language used for a better contributors inclusivity, don’t hesitate to add patches to the ticket.

@espellcaste requested and got a second opinion about #8011 & #8308. We then discussed about the best way to tackle the BP REST API’s #342 issue. @boonebgorges wrote a summary of what we decided into this comment.

@dcavins gave us updates about his progress on Network invites (see #8139). The new code will be added to the Members component and a new DB table will be created to handle opt-outs for non-site-members.

@im4th shared about his work on the BP Blocks’ front. A new block is now included to share posts/pages into the activity stream. It uses the Activity Block based post form. See this PR for more info about it.

7.0.0 release schedule

  • 7.0.0-beta1: October 15
  • 7.0.0 : December 1st

BuddyPress.org redesign

Unfortunately we ran out of time (@im4th ‘s fault!). @mercime & @vapvarun are doing great progress you can follow from this GANTT chart.

Next Dev-Chat

It will happen on August 12 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!

#6-2-0, #7-0-0, #dev-chat, #summary

imath 5:51 pm on June 11, 2020
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BP Dev-Chat Summary: June 3rd, 2020

For this meeting we chose to focus on defining the next features the team will work on for the 7.0.0 development cycle as well as first information about the 7.0.0 release schedule.

7.0.0 Features whishlist

@im4th first thanked the contributors who submitted tickets to our Call for Tickets. If you haven’t had the chance to add yours yet, you still have time: the call’s deadline is set to June 17.

7.0.0 Release Schedule

At the end of our meeting we agreed on this schedule:

  • 7.0.0-beta1: October 15
  • 7.0.0 : December 1st

I’ve just updated the 7.0.0 milestone: let’s start contributing to this great release!

Next Dev-Chat

It will happen on June 17 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!

#7-0-0, #dev-chat, #summary

imath 3:04 pm on April 10, 2020
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BP Dev Chat summary: April 8, 2020

BuddyPress Survey

@mercime has decided to wait for 6.0.0 final release to launch the survey. We will be able to add a link to it inside the “Hello BuddyPress 6.0.0” screen (See #8270). There will be 17 questions into the survey. If one of the team members wishes to request a new one, the deadline to make it happen is the day before the release date.

Progress about 6.0.0 release

6.0.0-beta1 was released on March 31 at 10:43 PM (WP Plugins directory’s time) : just before the end of march as announced 💪⏱. The WP Tavern wrote a great post about it and shared a very interesting feedback that has been converted to this ticket (#8271) since. The patch will soon be committed.

@johnjamesjacoby will try to find a way to get more information about future beta/RC downloads as we are always worrying to have very few feedbacks about them.

@rayisme is requesting your feedback about the 2 new exportable privacy data types, please do so adding your comment to this ticket: #8266.

He also fixed a very annoying error about a deprecated WP privacy function: it’s already available into the 5.0 branch and will be shipped during our next maintenance release. FYI: the problem is WP moved the deprecated function into a file that is only loaded into the /wp-admin context.

@im4th will package a new beta release (the second) on April 15.

BP REST API documentation update.

@im4th said he was sorry he couldn’t find the time to write some explanations about how to updated the documentation. He has since done using the Swagger UI tool. Here are the explanations (NB: in this Gist, there’s a file over the bp-custom.php one, you will also need).

Open floor

@espellcaste asked about the BP GraphQL documentation’s ticket on Meta Trac since it has not evolved for a while. 😬

@mercime has suggested to include a link to the developer.bp.org’s site inside the BuddyPress.org main menu. She wrote a ticket about it on Meta Trac. 💡👍

@im4th thanked Varun & IAmTheWebb for their very interesting contributions to the dev chat: everyone is welcome to do like them 🤝.

6.0.0 schedule & main features

  • Schedule:
    • Beta-2 April 15
    • Final release at the end of April.
  • Main Features:
    • BP REST API remaining endpoints ✅
    • BP Blocks ✅

Next dev chat

It will happen on April 22 at 19:00 UTC (a big week before final release ) 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!

🏡 Stay safe & Happy Easter 🥚

#6-0-0, #dev-chat

imath 6:18 am on March 20, 2020
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BP Dev Chat Summary: March 11th, 2020

BuddyPress Survey

We’ve been discussing about adding questions about 2 topics : BuddyPress integration with e-commerce plugins and BuddyPress alternatives. We found a compromise about the second topic and @mercime will add this question:

What other networking/membership plugin/software have you considered or used?

@espellcaste suggested to add a question about BP GraphQL consideration. @im4th suggested to add this feedback to the Google doc @mercime uses to work on the survey questions.

Progress about 6.0.0 release

@im4th asked about the BP REST API complete merge into BuddyPress core now all remaining endpoints are ready. @espellcaste prefers to keep maintaining it from its GitHub repository for now.

@im4th has decided to merge the BP Blocks plugin into BuddyPress core, following @johnjamesjacoby advice to reconsider his first idea about only merging “JavaScript built” blocks. A complete merge seems a better option to make sure to generate a pot file taking in account JavaScript translations. He recently added a patch on #8048 to make this happen, feedbacks welcome.

@dcavins was a bit worried he needed more than 2 weeks to end the Network invites work. If it’s the case, he will only include a portion of the code into 6.0.0.

Finally @im4th asked for help about #7729 @rayisme has been working on during. It’s about removing the legacy BuddyBar.

6.0.0 schedule & main features

  • Schedule:
    • First beta at the end of march.
    • Final release at the end of April.
  • Main Features:
    • BP REST API remaining endpoints ✅
    • BP Blocks ✅
    • Network invitation & Membership requests 😬
    • & maybe some surprises! 😬

Next dev chat

It will happen on March 25 at 19:00 UTC (a few days before first beta 🙄) 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!

#6-0-0

imath 4:27 pm on February 24, 2020
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BP Dev Chat Summary: February 12, 2020

BuddyPress Survey

@mercime shared her progress about her first pass on the BuddyPress survey for 2020 (see #8153). She prepared 16 questions.

  • We’ll use CrowdSignal to publish the survey.
  • On a side note @johnjamesjacoby suggested BuddyPress could have a lightweight Questionnaire component, @im4th believes it’s a great idea !
  • @mercime shared with all of us the questions she worked on after the dev-chat. Please take some time to review it before our next dev-chat

BuddyPress dev-chat are maintained on every other wednesday at 1900 UTC.

Unfortunately @espellcaste can’t join us on all the alternative days of week we’ve found into the doodle 😦 As the result it doesn’t worth changing our dev-chat meeting day/time.

6.0.0 Progress

@dcavins is making good progress about Network invites (#8139). He’s getting some inspiration from the Invite Anyone plugin. @im4th asked if it would be possible to invite a user not yet registered to the site to join it using a group invite, and the reply is yes 🙌

@im4th confirmed BuddyPress 6.0.0 will ship 2 Blocks and shared his progress about the Group Block. Here are 3 early screenshots of how it could look like :

The team also shared their thoughts about whether we should ship the JavaScript built blocks or include the complete JavaScript source files into trunk and build the Production scripts from there. At the minimum we’ll need to move to using WP CLI to generate our POT file so that JavaScript translations are available within GlotPress. @im4th will work on this asap from this trac ticket #8048.

Finaly we’ve talked about the fact the project behind the JavaScript library we are using for our suggestions feature is no longer maintained. We shared thoughts about moving to the Tribute library and using the BP REST API instead of AJAX. So far there are no impacts on the suggestions feature and we are taking some more time to think about it, having in mind we could also benefit from the BP AutoCompleter React component we’ve built for our 2 BP Blocks.

6.0.0 schedule & main features

  • Schedule:
    • First beta at the end of march.
    • Final release at the end of April.
  • Main Features:
    • BP REST API remaining endpoints
    • BP Blocks ✅
    • Network invitation & Membership requests
    • & maybe some surprises!

Next dev chat

It will happen in 2 days on February 26 at 19:00 UTC and of course in #BuddyPress.

PS1: sorry it took me so long to write this summary 😬

PS2: if you have ideas or questions, feel free (and we are strongly encouraging you) to comment this summary to share them!

#6-0-0

imath 6:26 am on January 21, 2020
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BP Dev Chat Summary: January 15, 2020

Main features for 6.0.0

BP REST API (improvements and remaining endpoints)

@espellcaste has been working on fixing some issues posted on the GH repository. With @im4th they discussed quite a time about one specific issue that is now resolved (many thanks to @espellcaste for his work on it 💪). About the tasks scheduled for 6.0.0, you can take a look at this GH project. Here are the remaining endpoints:

  • Member’s cover endpoint
  • Group’s cover endpoint
  • Friends endpoint
  • Blogs endpoint
  • Blog’s cover endpoint
  • Blog’s avatar endpoint
  • Signups endpoint

FYI this Core ticket should also be fixed for 6.0.0: #8156 (Move Avatar into the Members component).

BP Blocks

@karmatosed has shared sketches and thoughts about the first 2 BuddyPress blocks we will add in 6.0.0:

@im4th will start working asap on the first implementations of these 2 blocks building an autocomplete control to select the member or the group to display. @dcavins suggested this could be a good opportunity to review our Suggestion API so that it uses the BP REST API.

Network invitations & Membership requests.

@dcavins will work to make it happen in 6.0.0, you can still add your feedbacks on this ticket #8139.

Surprises!

@mercime & @im4th will also try to work on some surprises for this next release. We are keeping the features secret for now 😂

Core improvements

@im4th also shared his wish to use WordPress Rewrites instead of our legacy way of building URLs, see #4954. A possible way of progressing about it could be to use a plugin… He will look into it to see if it needs some Core adjustments.

BuddyPress survey

Discussing about the previous points took us a while and we decided to talk about the survey during our next dev-chat.

Open floor

@espellcaste cannot attend our dev-chats at the date/time they are scheduled. I’ve published this doodle to let us try to find a new day / time of the week for our meetings. I’ve left the current day / time: choose it if you prefer to leave the day / time unchanged.

6.0.0 schedule & main features

  • Schedule:
    • First beta at the end of march.
    • Final release at the end of April.
  • Main Features:
    • BP REST API remaining endpoints
    • BP Blocks
    • Network invitation & Membership requests
    • & maybe some surprises!

Next dev chat

It will happen next week at the time/date we decide replying to this doodle (and of course in #BuddyPress).

PS: if you have ideas or questions, feel free (and we are strongly encouraging you) to comment this summary to share them!

#6-0-0