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Re GSoC mentors: We have temporarily disabled the creation of new requests and invites in preparation of the launch of the new UIUI User interface for Melange later this week. This means that no new mentors can be invited until then. The new UI will be deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to…

If I were to, say, contact university computer science departments about having someone go and talk to students about developing on/for WordPress (in the interest of drumming up awesome GSoC applicants), any core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching…

Your Organization Application for “WordPress” in Google Summer of Code 2011 has been accepted. Yay! Hopefully we’ll have another great year participating in GSoC. Next week we’ll get the ball rolling with mentors, projects, applicants, etc. This weekend let’s just rest up. #gsoc

Timelines and assignments will be decided next week, but in the meantime, here’s what WordPress 3.2 is looking like: Faster release cycle than 3.1 — more focused release. I’ll be taking point on this release, making sure people stay on target and making sure we don’t try to slip “one more thing” in. Don’t make…

There’ll be a booth at the South by Southwest trade show (starts today) with a WP Genius Bar, like at WordCamps. If any coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contribs, forum volunteers, etc are in attendance at SxSW and are interested in doing an…

I submitted our application for GSoC just now, deadline is today. Matt is putting up a draft Ideas page on the Codex at https://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC2011. #gsoc

Because so many people are traveling to SXSW today, it was decided in 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. yesterday to skip this week’s dev chat. We’ll…

It’s time to file our application. Now or never, folks! GSoC applications will be coming in during April, and the active coding/mentorship period would be from May 23 – August 22. To be accepted as a mentor: You must be able to spend a couple of hours per week during the active coding period reviewing…

I’d like this week’s dev chat to be a discussion about the 3.1 release cycle. We all know it came out around 2 months later than planned, but why? What went well, what could have gone better, and what should we learn from this release and try to improve with our processes for 3.2? #agenda

Second round of TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. changes went live earlier: Reporters now automatically receive ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. updates via email. Reporters are asked to add their email to…