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WordPress was rejected as a mentoring organization from GSoC for this summer. This is unexpected, as I spent some time during the application period talking with Carol (Smith, the GSoC administrator) about our proposed approach of building a release cycle around GSoC and making it a mentorship-focused release and she seemed to approve the idea.…

Starting next week, the dev chat is moving to 20:00 UTC to follow the schedule of daylight saving in the U.S. Since we forgot about daylight savings, and every person on the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team is either traveling or busy…

Dev chat at the usual time today, but since half the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team is at and/or on their way home from sxsw, might be more of an ‘anyone who’s around can talk bugs and progress’ than a regular meeting.…

Normally we don’t start talking about the next release until the current one is out the door, or at least 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…

If you’ll be at SXSW this year, RSVP to come to the WordPress party on the 12th! Snacks, booze, WordPress people, what more could you ask for? No SXSW required, just an RSVP. Also, if anyone wants to volunteer at the booth to help people with their sites/answer questions, get in touch with Rose, who…

Team Update: XML-RPC (on behalf of westi) In our second cycle, the primary focus was CRUDCRUD Create, read, update and delete, the four basic functions of storing data. (More on Wikipedia.) methods for taxonomies. The work was tracked in #18438, and covers both the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress.…

@getsource and I did some in-person hacking at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Phoenix over the weekend. New patchpatch A special text…

We’re digging in full bore to get things done by freeze. #19978 is the primary ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.. Tasks that need to happen by Wed Feb 29: Finish the styling (Drew) CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. file cleanup (Lance) RTL stylesheet Editor stylesheet The last big…

Last week marked the end of our second cycle and the beginning of our sprint to get things done. We began by doing just that: last Friday, we merged the theme customizer into core. There’s still quite a bit to do and polish, so please keep that in mind. Development is being tracTrac An open…

Team Update: Bugs-RPC Unfortunately nothing happened for us this cycle. Since I will be out for awhile starting in a few days it has been proposed that the two XML-RPC teams be merged together. #team-update