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Agenda for today’s meeting in #wordpress-dev at . Go over the last few days of progress, as well as what we’ve been learning via statistics for background updates. (Spoiler: excellent.) Need a commit or revert on #20316 (garbage collect transients). It has a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying…

Things we’ve finished: Many accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) fixes: keyboard navigation for…

Howdy, all! Sorry for the delay, been a chaotic week or so. Just got the results of some user testing back thanks to the assistance of @lessbloat. View Results: https://www.usertesting.com/videos/dQBRyueQ9EsMAv1OsQrQmg%3d%3d?back=%2Fdashboard%3Fnew_study_id%3D%23study_905321 Here’s my notes: User remarks that there is no obvious intermediary way to search things. Seems frustrated about having to go from the current page,…

Following up on the potential roadmap for terms and taxonomy meta, here is a potential roadmap for multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog,…

I finally put a bunch of work into the coding of the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and…

As mentioned previously, 3.8 development officially opens shortly after 3.7 ships. With the first beta of 3.7 behind us and the final release scheduled for mid-October, it’s time to talk about what’s expected of feature plugins. @nacin mentioned at last week’s dev chat that 3.7 will likely branch at the WordCamp Europe contributor day, on…

We’ve finally come to the end of Summer of Code, so it’s time for the final GSoC release in this slightly late update (hey, would it be a post by me if not?). This release is mainly a stability release, so there are only minor changes: Huge documentation update – Guides on getting started and…

For the meeting today (starts in ~20 minutes), we need to work on getting to 3.7 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to…

Sorry for no meeting this week, it’s been busy at my j.o.b. In addition to the weekly IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. meeting, we now have…

Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on bringing Automatic CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Updates to WordPress 3.7 through #22704, Up until now it’s been disabled in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the…