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RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. are an extremely powerful tool for content tracking,…

I’m really excited to see our editorial flow get some love in the 3.6 cycle! We always want to be as extensibleExtensible This is the ability to add additional functionality to the code. Plugins extend the WordPress core software. as possible and post statuses are one of those places where we’re not near as good…

I want, as a major 3.6 bullet point, that we should never lose posts due to expired cookies, loss of connection, inadvertent navigation (even if AYS’d), 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…

Post formats is going to be a major win for 3.6. It’s one of those features that has so much potential, but it really falls short in usability and honestly we haven’t really taken the time to truly show what it can do. We’re going to re-think the adminadmin (and super admin) UIUI User interface…

Call for testers. WordPress 3.5.1 is now in 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 the final product; however, design changes often occur…

Impromptu 3.5.1 meeting in 30 minutes (19:00 UTC) in #wordpress-dev. Still upwards of 16 tickets to lock down. Would like to hit 3.5.1 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…

I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays! We’re back to our regularly scheduled 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. meetings tomorrow, and are going to start by scoping…

Going to be working on a project around stats for the contributor community, something at which we currently suck (even creating the list of people with props each release is still a fairly manual process). For the sake of this exercise, ignore the voice in your head that thinks, “There’s no way to gather that…

Heya. Now that we know Mark will be the release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release. for 3.6, on with team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and…

I’m going to be leading the WordPress 3.6 cycle. I’d personally like the focus of the release to be about content editing (revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider…