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Monday’s long list of improvements to Trac was just the first course. Introducing per-ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. notifications. Just above the comment box, you’ll see a new notifications pane. Here, you can watch/unwatch tickets. This means TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves…

Metadata had a productive meeting today. The MV* style architecture I suggested in the pseudo-code I shared in the last post was discussed, and everyone seems on board. Will write more on this in full later. We’re moving our development to a Github repo, where anyone can open up an issue to voice concerns of…

We’ll be having our weekly Metadata meeting . The last two meetings have been a bit slow, which I attribute to the holidays. For tomorrow’s meeting, I only have one agenda item: discussion on architecture. I’ve drafted up pseudo-code (emphasis on the pseudo) based on the discussions we’ve been having about our pie-in-the-sky architecture ideas. Putting code on the table should bring…

Over the holidays, I was sick for two weeks (boo). While resting and recovering, I took to working on our tools (yay). Specifically, TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.. Here’s an overview of the added features, enhancements, and bugbug A bug…

The email used for notifications on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. is currently specified in Trac preferences. I’m changing this to pull automatically from your WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This…

During 3.8, we started to work on Adding a CSS preprocessor by using SASS for the color schemes in WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. We also had some great discussion about using a CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. preprocessor. Most of the ideas…

Lots of news to share! First: Helen Hou-Sandí has had guest commit for the past three release cycles. She’s been spending the last year reviewing contributions, mentoring contributors, and working on some of our larger UIUI User interface projects. I’m proud to announce @helen is now a permanent committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has…

Metadata group will be having its weekly meeting tomorrow, . I’m sure some contributors will be taking the day off, so no big decisions will be made. We’ll be reviewing where we’re at in terms of research, and adjusting course accordingly. We’ve been focusing heavily on Post MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to…

Automatic updates for 3.8 started to flow early Monday. Since major releases are opt-in, future ones will get automatic update instructions immediately. It should have happened on release day this time as well (oversight on our part). Minor releases will continue to get a delayed roll-out. 3.7.1 happened over the course of about four days,…

Proposed agenda for today’s dev chat (~35 minutes from now): Initial debrief for 3.8. Start to think about what we can learn from 3.8. Status report of bugs/regressions for 3.8.1. Look at a tentative 3.8.1 timeline. Initial 3.9 discussion. Discuss potential feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being…