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Before we kick off 3.5 development tomorrow with the scope session, there are a few quick announcements! Andrew Nacin’s prolific contributions, encyclopedic knowledge of the codebase, and his increasing development leadership have undoubtedly been known to you all. We’re now recognizing that leadership by promoting Nacin to a Lead Developer! Daryl Koopersmith has had temporary…

Per our previous dev meeting, the 3.5 feature scope session will be taking place at 20:00 UTC on July 11 (tomorrow). (#wordpress-dev on irc.freenode.net — this is our regular place and time; see the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not…

Canonical redirects, which were disabled on IIS several releases ago, have ben reënabled for IIS. I’d like any issues with IIS redirects to get worked out in this cycle, and would appreciate thorough testing by everyone with access to various IIS environments. File new tickets for any issues you encounter.

With the release of a lot of high-DPI displays (aka “retina” displays, but also others on both Android and iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. devices), it’s just a truism that images on these displays have tended to not look their best, all the time. High-DPI displays are having to scale up…

During yesterday’s meeting, we decided on a daily bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrub starting today (June 28) until July 10…

Proposed agenda for our June 27 weekly project meeting: Status check for 3.4.1. Discuss potential timelines for 3.5. This includes picking a date for a 3.5 feature/task scope session. Next week is Independence Day in the U.S., so I am thinking July 11. Discuss other 3.5 goals, aside from features/tasks. What are things that need…

@westi: Could we add an option in the 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…

Quick agenda for today’s dev chat (starts in 30 minutes, at 20:00 UTC) — Discuss fallout of 3.4 release (bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being…

WordPress 3.4 is released! No dev chat today. Resuming next week.

Each release cycle, we try to recognize those core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org who’ve made the greatest impact, ramped up the quickest, and/or been the most reliable. In the…