WordPress:Mailing List Summary

This content seems stale.? And it is a result when searching for "mailing list". Moved under WAKELESS for him/her to decide/update - Foolswisdom 21:14, 4 Sep 2006 (GMT)

TODO List

 This is a list that pretty much everyone on the list has agreed should be done.

• the_content filters. The way they work seems a little bit inconsistent with the_excerpt and the_content, also the way they currently work it makes it a little bit harder for alternative input formatting. One of the suggested solutions is to not filter everytime the post is viewed, but store the filtered output. Michel Fortin has a discussion of the difficulties he had here.
• Theme browser. The theme browser has been implemented, though all the themes are very similar in terms of layout. Some alternative's (three column layouts) would be appreciated.

Current Work

• Compose screen. There has been some changes made recently to the compose screen, there has been mixed reactions to how it currently works. Final verdict should probably wait till it's smoothed out. General consensus is that there are definitely ways to improve the existing (1.5) screen.

• User Permissions. There has been some pretty major changes to the whole User Permissions going on, this involves plugin-editable user-roles and capabilities. (Ryan and Owen have been mainly involved) Links: Incomplete spec and more complete spec

• Plugin De-activation. There has been discussion and a couple of patches regarding a plugin deactivation hook.

• Improved Image Handling. Owen has revealed that he has a patch waiting in the wings with lots of crazy cool image/upload changes. This involves, while posting uploads, automatic thumbnail generation and the removing of the upload tab. He also revealed that this is going to tie in with the user permissions changes, allowing sandboxing of users into their own folder or letting them access a public folder.

Recently implemented (from dev list)

• New Wiki Tech List. A new email list http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wiki-tech was created for wordpress related wiki technology.
• 1.5.2 or on to 1.6. It looks like the next major version released will be 1.6, a fair amount of major work has been started. (Obviously this has no actual bearing on what will necessarily happen)
• XMLRPC. Changes have been made to xmlrpc due to certain security vulnerabilities being brought to light. There ended up being a point release to resolve these problems.

• High-performance wordpress. There has been discussion about how to work with sites requiring high performance wordpress installations. This will pretty much just end up being a document here on the codex to point people to. Draft here: Ringmaster/WordPress_in_High_Traffic.

Shelved Threads

 This is stuff that the conversation has been shelved on. This has no bearing on whether or not it will be implemented or not. I'm not fully up to date on the threads so can't summarise it too well. If I get some time, I will go back and try and bring it up to date.
 
 This was copied straight out of an email that Matt posted.

• Let's whip WYSIWYG (asking for suggestions)
• getSelection Workaround (still unanswered)
• Making it better (community feedback on some criticism)
• Pingback block-level awareness (request for code)
• Category project (request for code volunteers)
• XUL Hackers (request for volunteers)
• Importer updates. Matt asked for assistance for some housekeeping to be performed on the importers, it's possible that this might be a good way for someone to give ongoing contributions.