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Team Update: Bugs-RPC Realized this morning that we totally missed our Friday update, so I’m posting it now. Went over every ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. on our list for this cycle. All but two (and possibly a third) look commit ready. We’ll have a coreCore Core…

GSoC time! Google announced GSoC and I’m guessing we’ll do it again, so roll call: who wants to be a GSoC mentor this year? Second: who wants to be the administrator? I’d like to get it off my plate if possible. Candidate should be able to keep track of dates, have good writing skills, be…

Team Update: XML-RPC (Friday) We made great progress this week continuing our focus on the major ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for implementing wp.newPost (#18429) and working to keep the other bits of this APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows…

Decided to allow small schema changes in this release so as to clear out some of the schema updates we’ve long considered. #19935 – Drop comment_approved index. It has been redundant for a long time. #17188 – Remove blog_id column from wp_options. It has never been used. We’re also considering: #19387 post_content_filtered should be longtext…

Wednesday marked the halfway point of our first iteration. The description of our current cycle can be found in #19910. Development is currently taking place in a 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…

Team Update: i18ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill. Technically, our cycle started today. Really though, a few of…

We focused on flexible headers this cycle (#17242). We have a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. that we think…

I worked some more on the patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. we had for #19810. The original patch had…

Team Update – Browsing Buddies (Tuesdays) Current Cycle Focus: Themes Screen Infinite Scrolling (#19815) helenyhou: Created initial patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a…

Team Update: Gardening “Focused” on security, performance, and cache improvements with particular attention to i18ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an…