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Normally the timing of the weekly project meeting 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. chat will not change with daylight savings changes, as it is anchored to…

Beta 2 is out. There are currently more than 150 open tickets. Many need patches, many have patches that need testing. If you want to help, head over to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/6 and look for a ticket (or several) that you think you can help with. Many of them are not overly complicated, they just need people…

Yoav usually helps with RTL issues around this time in the dev cycle, but he’s not around for a few weeks, as he is a proud new father. (Congrats, Yoav!) If anyone is able to look in on, test, help refine, etc the remaining RTL tickets for 3.3 (we could especially use help from Arabic…

Activity since 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 as part of the process. 1:…

We need to decide if we want to apply to be a mentoring organization for Google Code-in this year. Pros: Encourages students aged 13-17 to get involved with open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be**…

Hi folks, there’s a known issue with the DNSDNS DNS is an acronym for Domain Name System – how you assign a human readable address to a website’s exact numeric coded location (ie. wordpress.org uses the actual IP address 198.143.164.252). for WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users.…

We’re getting 3.3 ready for 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 as part of…

Last week I did a bunch of testing, 20 participants (and had done some in Portland as well during WCPDX). I ran people through the new stuff, some screenshots, and watched them using their current sites as well. Did a combination of using my test site (or their site if they had betaBeta A pre-release…

Now that WordPress 3.3 is in feature freeze, it’s time to have a look at some new JavascriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS…

It’s that time in the dev cycle again: feature freeze. As usual, we are running a bit behind. We were supposed to have freeze a week ago for everything being worked on by contributors, then a week for the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds…