Break taken. Time to start looking at bbPress.org and get it running 2.0.

Weekly Update – 9/21

Past Week:

• Updated bbpdevel styling
• Updated bbpdevel sidebar
• Shipped bbPress 0.9.0.7
• Shipped bbPress 1.0.4
• Shipped bbPress 1.1
• Shipped bbPress 2.0
• Trac triage

This Week:

• Monitor trac/twitte/forums for fires
• Take a break

Weekly Update – 9/12

Past Week:

• Added Genesis helper class to aid in theme compatibility (huge props Jared)
• Fixed private/hidden forum posts leaking into BuddyPress activity stream
• Fixed Subscription Notifications sending on Akismet spammed replies
• Refactored _status_ references to prevent API issues later
• Reverted Akismet change that caused incorrect post_parent reporting
• Added user status functions to help with spammed/deleted checks
• Fixed bb_get_option() bug in 0.9 branch (props _ck_)

This Week:

• Update bbpdevel styling
• Update sidebar to reflect new Trac location
• Package 0.9.1 (see above)
• Package 1.0.4 (has committed PHP 5.3+ fixes)
• Package 2.0 RC 5 – Codename “Can we have a pool dad?”
• Trac triage – Clean out milestones, update reports, and general maintenance
• Monitor trac per usual
• Moderate forums per usual

Hope to:

• Release 2.0 if RC 5 is well received

bbPress Trac got a bit of a facelift today to bring it in line with core Trac. You now have keyword management, Gravatar support, a fresh coat of paint, and After the Deadline support. You’ll also see a notice when creating a ticket, and will be forced to preview it. When uploading an attachment, you’ll be explicitly granting its use. Probably some other goodies too.

Let me know if there are any bugs. The color could probably use a tweak as it’s used on so much text, which we can do next week.

bbPress Plugin – Updates

JJJ posted an update on the bbPress plugin on bbPress forums, you may check it out in case you missed it.

Just closed down bbdevel.wordpress.org. No sense in having two blogs for the same thing. Since ‘bbp’ is the namespace used in the plugin, and ‘bp’ is used by other projects, ‘bbpdevel’ makes the most sense to use as the official bbPress development blog.

Weekly Dev Chat

Please reply with the time you are available to attend the weekly dev chats in the #bbPress IRC channel.

bbPress as a plugin

Yesterday Andrew Nacin announced over on WPDevel that Pete Mall and myself will be diving head first into bbPress plugin development soon as part of the 3.org initiative. We will be looking to bring on a few extras to get their hands dirty, so if you’re interested drop a comment here and I’ll be in contact with you when we officially break ground.

bbPress 1.1 – Maybe Soon!

Just an update on what’s going on Trac – bbPress 1.0.3 milestone has 3 tickets left (all the tickets have patches and 1 depends on a BackPress ticket), while 1.1 milestone has 4 tickets left (2 haves patches, and 2 need patches). There’s also another BackPress ticket that needs to be fixed (which also has a patch). That means that bbPress 1.1 is very near to its release!

How can you help?

1. Checkout a copy of bbPress trunk version via SVN and test it.
2. Test the patches of the open tickets.
3. Contribute patches to the tickets which don’t have one.

What’s new in bbPress 1.1?

1. Email subscriptions
2. Loginless posting
3. Better administration of posts and topics
4. Better search and statistics
5. Bug fixes. Some critical ones are – #1261 (RSS feeds errors), #1146 (faster recount functions), #1150 (undelete topic error).
6. Better tags administration (if #1243 goes in)

Some tickets that missed 1.1 milestone are #960 (better user administration) and #1277 (kakumei cleanup) even though they had patches but could cause errors as they were huge changes and needed more testing. They might get into 1.2 though.

Update: bbPress 1.0.3 milestone now only has 1 ticket left, which depends on this BackPress ticket), while 1.1 milestone has 2 tickets left (both need patches). There’s also another BackPress ticket that needs to be fixed (has patch). Also, there would be no tag administration in 1.1.

Development Report – 26 April to 23 May 2010

Here are the developments which have taken place in the last 4 weeks (all commits by chrishajer, unless mentioned):

Enhancements:

1. [2426]: Always show database host input on installaation screen. Fixes #1270, props dimadin
2. [2431]: Link author’s name to their profile page in topic.php. Fixes #1227. Props Nightgunner5, GautamGupta
3. [2432]: Better statistics page design. Fixes #1232. Props Nightgunner5, GautamGupta

Defects:

1. [2422]: Add back in jQuery.noConflict which was inadvertently dropped in changeset 2416. Fixes #1269, reported by Milan Dinic, props GautamGupta
2. [2423:2424]: If the only post of a topic is deleted, redirect to topic_url?view=all and when undeleting a topic, only undelete that topic’s posts, not all posts. Fixes #1150 – by mdawaffe
3. [2425]: Never use bb_no_where() on get_thread_where hook. Fixes #1271 – by mdawaffe
4. [2427:2428]: Allow international characters in forum slugs; new filter editable_slug. Fixes #1257, props Markus Pezold
5. [2429]: Reported by mr_pelle. Patch in [2414] broke relevant search results. Fixes #1222. Props GautamGupta
6. [2430]: Fix feed further. Fixes #1261 Props GautamGupta

Also, we have virtually completed the 1.0.3 milestone! Some more tickets have been opened on the 1.0.3 milestone and we are fixing those.