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  • Friday Bug Scrub, March 6, 2015

    This Friday, we’ll be running the usual weekly 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. scrub in the #core channel on SlackSlack Slack…

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  • I just posted a couple things to the…

    I just posted a couple things to the Community team p2 that could benefit from getting feedback from developers in the community: Improving WordCamp.org: Notes from the 2014 Community Summit Improving WordCamp.org: User Experience of the CSS Editor #customizing-themes, #jetpack-css-editor, #wordcamp-orgLogin to Reply

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  • Community Chat Recap | March 5, 2015

    Slack Log (Requires 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/ login to view. Set one up if you don’t have a Slack account.) Next week’s chat will stay at 19:00 UTC. No change for Daylight Savings Time in the US. This week’s chat…

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  • Improving WordCamp.org: User Experience of the CSS Editor

    One of the discussions we had at the 2014 Community Summit was about customizing WordCamp.org sites, and we identified some of the worst pain-points that organizers currently have. One of those problems was that customizing a theme’s CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel…

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  • Improving WordCamp.org: Notes from the 2014 Community Summit

    At the 2014 Community Summit there was a breakout discussion that focused on ways to improve WordCamp.org. You’ll find the notes from that discussion below, which are being posted here so that the discussion can continue with the participation of everyone who’s interested (not just those who were able to make it to the Summit). Kudos to @dimensionmedia…

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  • Scroll bleed through in the session expired log in modal, iPhone 5

    Another case of bad scrolling behind a modal. Previously: https://make.wordpress.org/test/2015/02/13/scroll-bleed-through-and-scroll-position-loss-view-plugin-details-iphone-6/ https://make.wordpress.org/test/2014/10/05/scrolling-beneath-modals-nexus-5-iphone-5-4-1-alpha-20141002/ https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/31381 (Needs review and commit) https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/29909 (fixed)   #ios, #login, #login-registration, #phone, #scroll-bleed, #sessions, #threshold-friction, #webLogin to Reply

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  • Plugin forums excluded from "view all topics" and "no replies"

    Our forum moderatorForum Moderator Forum Moderators are active contributors who moderate their local support forums. Generally, these contributors get the permission to moderate from a forum admin of their language after contributing to the forums for a while. Moderators can be added by the local forum admins or the Polyglots team leads. @gatespace noticed that…

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  • Support team meetup agenda for March 5th 2015

    Not a whole lot to mention this fine day really 🙂 No-replies is now defaulted to 21 days, with some magic to switch the date range if desired, as per the desire from last week (https://make.wordpress.org/support/2015/02/support-team-meetup-summary-for-february-26th/#comment-172355 golds the details) Adding a few support badges to long standing IRC voulenteers Open floor, go nuts!

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  • Dev Chat Agenda, March 4, 2015

    Here’s the agenda for Wednesday’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack. » 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…

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  • Agenda for the Polyglots chat for March 4

    Dear Polyglots, Here’s the agenda for today’s Polyglots chat: 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 stats First update about WordPress 4.2 New pages…

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