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We have passed feature freeze, and are now in UIUI User interface week, leading up to a 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…

For all you SVNSVN Subversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase.-uppers, don’t freak out: we’re trying out the style refresh that’s been being talked about over on the UI blog, and things might look a little ugly as we get it all…

Calling all CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. “Gurus”, well everybody that is interested in CSS to voice their opinions about The big CSS overhaul in 3.3. #3-3, #css

Our student GSoC blog is up and running, for anyone who wants to follow along this summer. http://gsoc2011.wordpress.com/ #gsoc

Cross-posting from wordcamp.org: WordCamp Vancouver is coming up on May 5. The organizers call it a developer focus, though I would probably amend that to be “professional” as there are also sessions about design, information architecture and content strategy, etc. They recently lowered the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the…

Ian Stewart (iandstewart) and Lance Willett (lancewillett) will be driving Twenty Eleven theme development during 3.2. You’ll be seeing commits from them for the remainder of the 3.2 cycle as they get our new default theme into shape. Follow the action and provide feedback on ticket 17198. #bundled-theme, #twentyeleven

The Distraction Free Writing mode has been in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running “trunk”, then you are on the latest revision. since yesterday. Would appreciate comments, suggestions, opinions, etc. Bug reports should probably go on #17136. #3-2

Google has announced the students who were selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code program this year. WordPress is once again a participating organization, and will have 12 students working with us this year. We were awarded the 15 slots we requested, but based on how we distributed the mentors (and how many…

There are 56 tickets in the 3.2 milestone marked has-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., needs-testing. 18 with needs-patch. It…

We have a checkbox in profiles where people can say “I make my living from WordPress.” As of today, 19,932 people have checked that box. It’s a neat data point, but also makes me curious about more. I’d love to have a yearly survey we promote when we do a release to ask questions of…