imath 9:13 am on June 20, 2024
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BP Dev-Chat Summary June 19, 2024

⏳ BuddyPress 14.0.0

2 tickets were needing attention:

  • #8319 was reopened due to an issue with the BP Default theme: the way we are filtering current_theme_supports-buddypress needs some extra checks to avoid PHP warnings. The goal of this improvement is to let BP standalone theme developers opt-in for BuddyPress support globally using add_theme_support( 'buddypress' ) as well as for future specific component features using bp_current_theme_supports( array( 'activity' => 'block-editor' ) ) for instance. A patch has been added and will be committed shortly.
  • #9187 is a last minute improvement to bring back custom locations for language files. Thanks to it users will be able to fully customize all BuddyPress texts to match their community needs (eg: using “teams” instead of “groups” etc..) without fearing their language files to be updated with the regular BuddyPress ones. A patch enjoying WordPress 6.5 l10n improvements is ready to be committed.

Working on BuddyPress documentation is helping us finding bugs or potential improvements: #9187 can thank this PR being reviewed, @emaralive found a regression introduced in 12.4.1 as well as an issue with the BP Opt-outs tools screen options.

We’ve decided to set Beta2 release date to June 24 (next monday). If you haven’t tested Beta1 yet, please be our guests!

14.0.0 updated schedule

  • June 13: 14.0.0-beta1 ✅.
  • June 24: 14.0.0-beta2
  • July 8: 14.0.0.

Open floor

  • 12.6.0 milestone is there in case we’re releasing 14.0.0 after WordPress 6.6 is released. Main goal is to preserve the Notification WP Admin bar “bubble” position since 6.6 has made some changes into this area lately (See #9182).
  • We talked about the BuddyPress.org site’s new theme project (see #9193). The simpler the better (@emaralive).
  • @johnjamesjacoby reminded us that when we were batch closing all buddypress.org issues, we are effectively also closing them for bbPress.org, because they share a common codebase 😬.
  • WCEU 2024 was great! @vapvarun went there, met with Matt and with other great developers that may get involved into BuddyPress. The more we are the better (@im4th).

Next Dev-Chat

It will happen on Wednesday July 3, 2024 at 19:00 UTC in #BuddyPress.

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