Hopefully, all of your WordPress installations so far have been successfully upgraded to version 3.4. One of the most exciting things about a release is getting to work on the next one! Here’s a sneak peek at what was discussed in the latest WordPress 3.5 development chat scoping session.
All information discussed in this week's WordPress Developer Chat is still extremely tentative. So even though a specific feature or change might be talked about, it might not actually appear in WordPress 3.5, or it might end up being different than what was initially discussed. So if it doesn’t look like what I’m going to talk about when WordPress 3.5 is released… you’ve been warned!
Quick Facts: For those of you who don’t know what WordPress Developer Chat is, it’s a weekly meeting held by the WordPress development team in the #wordpress-dev channel of the IRC chat. If you couldn't make it to the actual meeting, or want to see the entire discussion which I'll summarize here, you can read the IRC logs of these chats. You can also follow the WordPress development blog, which has recently moved to the “make” network of WordPress blogs.This week’s discussion is moderated by Andrew Nacin, who was recently promoted to Lead Developer in recognition of his incredible contributions. Matt Mullenweg also spoke to explain his thoughts on the direction of the next version.
Matt's main feature scope proposal is (quote from dev chat):
The first thing mentioned is: "Twenty-Twelve", which was originally planned to release version 3.4, but was later postponed.
"2012 is coming, and while it needs more work, the cycle should be sufficient
In addition to being bundled with 3.5, we should also consider promoting it separately
...
In the theme directory after we give it a development once/twice in trunk"
Of course, it will be interesting to see the new Twenty-Twelve themes released with 3.5 and see what might change between now and then. Here is a demonstration of the current state of "Twenty-Twelve": "Twenty-Twelve Demonstration".
"When we restructure everything it would be nice to flatten the admin aesthetic a bit to make it easier to zoom in and out in the future (responsive) and also be recolorable (blue for now) The theme is A lot of overhead)
Inspired by https://github.com/blog/1106-say-hello-to-octicons, WordPress.com has also been using them successfully - http://wordpress. com/i/noticons/example.html
We have less and less cartoon/icon stuff now”
The second proposal is not surprising, as this is the direction the web seems to be generally heading, and it makes sense. As Matt mentioned, GitHub is a prominent example of using fonts instead of icons/symbols for scalability. It would also be nice to give the blue management theme some love (or lose it).
"It's been a while since we've removed something and I'd like to nominate Link Manager, which is a complete top-level menu item"
"But I love Link Manager. I use it all the time!" ~ Never anyone. ”
~Mark Jaques
The third thing surprised me even more, but was very welcome! It’s definitely time to remove some of the residual “Blog Memories” features from WordPress that are getting less and less used and fueling the “WordPress is just for blogging” argument. Getting rid of the link manager will help tidy up the admin interface, but will obviously require some thought for the few people who really rely on this feature. Some discussions are leaning toward making it a widget, or a custom menu, or even a plugin.
Some other suggestions from developers for the scope of functionality in 3.5 are:
These are some very exciting suggestions for scope, and while it's all still very tentative, I'm looking forward to seeing how this all pans out. I'm also looking forward to being part of the development process.
Nacin mentioned three platform improvements that he would like to see included in WordPress 3.5 as well:
The tentative release date for WordPress 3.5 was also discussed. The team is targeting a release on or around December 5th. This actually makes the development cycle quite short, less than 5 months from now. It also covers the time span of major events such as WordCamp San Francisco, the WordPress Community Summit, the Automattic Company Meetup, and the PressNomics Conference.
There is also talk of freezing the feature before September 12th, and then completing user testing and adjustments by September 26th. This means there is room for betas, release candidates, etc. before the final release. As Scribu summed it up in the chat, it was basically two months of development and then two months of polishing.
This seems like a fairly optimistic timeline, but if managed properly it will mean this is a focused round of development.
Early this week, Nacin will release the official summary of the Make/Core scoping sessions, encouraging developers who want to participate to raise their hands to form teams around each major feature. Teams was involved in the development process for WordPress 3.4 and it seemed to be going very well, so they’re sticking with it again this time.
Nacin’s agenda for next week’s WordPress Developer Chat might be:
WordPress 3.5 planning is underway, which is very exciting. Some of the features discussed are pretty important, so you'll notice them once they're released and upgraded! Again, I should point out that everything mentioned above is very tentative, but it at least shows the direction of development.
So what are you most hoping to see included in WordPress 3.5? What hasn’t been mentioned but you do think needs improvement? Most importantly, are you going to participate and contribute to WordPress this time? Let us know in the comments below!
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