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  • Community Team chat summary – 18 May 2017

    This is the recap for the Community Team chat for the EU/Asia-Pacific timezones at 8:00 UTC. There will be a second meeting with the same agenda at 20:00 UTC as well. Here is the agenda and here are the Slack logs. Items discussed: DeputyProgram Supporter Community Program Supporters (formerly Deputies) are a team of people…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: May 17th (4.8 week 3)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from May 17th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.7.5 Release 4.7.5 was released; six security issues and three maintenance fixes, thanks to everyone who pitched in to get that out! 4.8 Timing Beta 1 went out on Friday, May 12th Beta 2 is due out this Friday, May 19th; potentially shepherded by…

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  • 4.8 Bug Scrubs for RC 1

    The following bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrubs will help us drop to 0 tickets in the 4.8 milestone by RC1…

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  • Cleaner headings in the admin screens

    One of the most common needs for accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) is…

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  • Premium Plugin in exchange for promo favors for Meetup Organizers

    We’ve had a lot of discussion with MeetupsMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. and organizers in the past about how to handle sponsorship for meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get…

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  • New bootstrapping mechanism to load the WP-CLI framework

    The upcoming 1.2.0 release of WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ will include a refactored bootstrapping flow that provides a more flexible way of loading the framework itself and setting everything up. This refactoring is…

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  • Hello Polyglots, I am the…

    Hello Polyglots, I am the plugin author for Booking calendar with availability management (https://wordpress.org/plugins/booking-calendar-with-availability-management/). Please add me as the translation editor of my native language (Polish): #pl_PL – @partners_iai (@ocean90) #editor-requests Login to ReplyClear to-do

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  • Comparison between the Theme and Plugin review process

    As we are discussing how we can improve the Theme Review process it would be good to see how our process compares to the 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 features to your…

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  • Dev Chat Agenda for May 17th (4.8 week 3)

    This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : 4.7.5 security and maintenance release 4.8 timing 4.8 bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being…

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  • JavaScript Chat Summary for May 16th

    Below is a summary of the conversation from today’s 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 executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com Chat (agenda,…

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