Source: Make WordPress: Core

Greetings! WordPress 3.8.1 RC1 is now available for final testing. Here’s a zip, or you can set the WordPress Beta Tester plugin to “point releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2,…

During last week’s dev chat, we decided on a schedule. We also chatted about a major focus in 3.9 on improving workflow for new and current contributors alike. If there are further suggestions on changes we can make to workflow to make coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development…

There are a few days left to submit proposals to OSCON. It would be great to see the sessions there that are about WordPress actually being presented by people involved in the project, so I’d like to encourage/beg/urge some of you to submit a proposal based on your involvement in the core project and/or the…

This is a major upgrade for the WordPress editor. There are many changes in 4.0: New UIUI User interface and UI APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.. New theme. Revamped events system/API. Better code…

Due to a lot of stuff in my lap for the next few months, I don’t have the time to keep chasing down things for Search.  If anyone would like to take point, I’d be glad to help in any way possible, I just don’t have the time to wrangle it personally for the foreseeable…

We were supposed to discuss WordPress 3.9 during the weekly meeting last week, but in the absence of a decision on a release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release., and with a lot of 3.8.1 things to get through, it got pushed to today. 2100 UTC, #wordpress-dev (so, in an hour).…

I’m pleased to share we now have an official GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development…

At this point, a weekly planning meeting is not applicable. Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. scrubs of open issues will be more useful to make sure discussions are moving along at a good pace. Metadata team’s weekly meeting every Tuesday at 1900-2000 UTC will from now on take an “office hours” format, accompanied by another…

Some history: Audio / Video support in Core WordPress 3.6 + Audio/Video I wanted to do a Make post on my wants for Audio / Video in 3.9 to solicit feedback and spark some discussion about what the community wants / needs / doesn’t want / doesn’t need. Adding audio / video in 3.6 was…

One thing I’d like to work on is improve our reports on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. with the hope we can better manage the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. queues. We…