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  • Dev Chat Summary: October 19 (4.7 week 9)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from October 19th (agenda, Slack archive). Reminders Schedule: Today is the major feature merge deadline! That leaves us one week until 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…

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  • Dev Chat Summary: October 12 (4.7 week 8)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from October 12th (agenda, Slack archive). Reminders Schedule: We are just one week from the final chance to merge in major features. This includes Twenty Seventeen. We are just two weeks from betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial…

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  • Media Weekly Update (Oct 14)

    This post serves to jump-start discussion before the weekly check in, which takes place in #core-media on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. The next meeting is and agenda for these meetings includes moving priority tasks forward, providing feedback on issues of interest,…

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  • Plugin directory chat on 2016-10-19

    We’ll have a quick chat about the #plugin-directory at in #meta. No fixed agenda, just some brief updates. #metaLogin to Reply

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  • Dev Chat Agenda for October 19 (4.7 week 9)

    This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Schedule reminder: Today is the major feature merge deadline! That leaves us one week until 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…

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  • WordPress REST API Success Metrics

    This post is part of the conditional merge of the WordPress REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with…

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  • Agenda for the Polyglots chats on October 19th

    LocaleLocale Locale = language version, often a combination of a language code and a region code, for instance es_MX denotes Spanish as it’s used in Mexico. A list of all locales supported by WordPress in https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/ stats Tech update Make/Polyglots now runs on O2 Global WordPress Translation day Local events check (30 already confirmed!) –…

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  • Hi polyglots 🙂 I’m a…

    Hi polyglots 🙂 I’m a member of the BuddyPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team and release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release. for 2.7. I have read the FAQ but have no way of determining who translated BP…

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  • Twenty Seventeen: Merge Proposal for 4.7

    A note from @helen: Before we get into the proposal itself, I’d like to officially introduce its author, @davidakennedy, as a committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers – a developer receiving…

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  • Agenda for October 20th Support Meeting

    General Announcements How’s WordPress 4.6.1 looking so far? Forum Upgrade Status, please review the forum upgrade master list here and the master thread on the forums before the meeting. Testing the New Forum Theme Checkin with International Support Liaisons For any other items to discuss please add them in the comments below, or bring them…

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