Corey McKrill 10:31 pm on February 10, 2020
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Ending support for the standalone version of CampTix

CampTix is the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party used on WordCamp.org sites to sell tickets to WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. events and manage attendee data. Since 2012, when it was first built, it has also been distributed as a standalone plugin in the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ plugin directory.

WordCamp.org has always run the same CampTix code as that found in the plugin directory. A few months ago, however, it was necessary to add some functionality from other parts of the WordCamp codebase into CampTix. Copying that functionality into the standalone plugin would have created confusing duplication on WordCamp sites, and added a lot of complexity to the update. Instead, CampTix was integrated into the WordCamp.org codebase itself, which  essentially created a fork. Since then, the WordCamp version of CampTix has changed in ways that have not been ported back to the standalone version.

As of now, the standalone version of CampTix will no longer be distributed via the plugin directory, and its original GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo has been switched to “archive” mode.

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Kelly Dwan 11:50 pm on February 7, 2020  

WordCamp.org session timestamp changes

On WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. sites, the session times have been saved as a unix timestamp in UTC, regardless of the site’s timezone. We’ll be fixing this across all WordCamp sites, but this requires changing the session time for all sessions on all sites to include the timezone offset. This should not affect organizers or attendees, but anyone using the timestamp directly from the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. will see a change.

You can see how we’re fixing this on GitHub, and if you have any input, please leave a reply. There was also some discussion on slack.

What’s the problem?

We were saving timestamps as if they were in UTC, regardless of the site’s timezone, which lead to technically-incorrect timestamps.

For example, if you have a site in EST, and you save a session for March 1st at 4pm, it will actually save it as “March 1st 2020 16:00 UTC”, which is not actually when that talk is. In most places this has been fine, because php’s date also assumed UTC, but as of WordPress 5.3, we have timezone-aware date functions. Additionally, these timestamps are causing headaches for using these values outside of PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php., like in JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. (for gutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/) or 3rd parties developing apps.

Do I need to do anything?

If you’re an organizer, attendee, or someone else who just uses the WordCamp sites, no 👍🏻

If you have an app that uses the WordCamp REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. to get session info (including the time), you might need to update your code.

For apps using the the v1 endpoint still, ex wp-json/posts/?type=wcb_session, the legacy timestamp will still be returned (but please update to v2 😉).

For the current endpoints (ex wp-json/wp/v2/sessions), the meta._wcpt_session_time value will now be the correct timestamp. If you’re manually calculating a timezone offset to display the “right” time, you can remove that code. If you can’t change right away, add ?wc_session_utc=true to your requests, and it will return the legacy timestamp.

I want to run the script to convert these times next week (Feb 12th), and these values will change immediately. You can add the legacy query to your request now, and it will not do anything until the change is made.

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Corey McKrill 6:56 pm on February 3, 2020
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Next WordCamp.org ticket scrub on February 6th, 2020

This ticket scrub will happen on 2020-02-06 19:00 UTC in the #meta-wordcamp channel. Note this is one hour later than our normal time.

The focus is on MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. tickets with the WordCamp Site & Plugins component.

Comment below if there’s a specific ticket or topic you’d like to discuss.

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Hugh Lashbrooke 6:48 pm on January 27, 2020
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Francesca Marano 5:53 pm on January 27, 2020
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Ian Dunn 8:43 pm on January 13, 2020  

Next WordCamp.org ticket scrub on January 16th, 2020

This ticket scrub will happen on 2020-1-16 18:00 UTC in the #meta-wordcamp channel.

The focus is on MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. tickets with the WordCamp Site & Plugins component.

Comment below if there’s a specific ticket or topic you’d like to discuss.

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Ian Dunn 5:16 pm on December 16, 2019
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Kelly Dwan 10:07 pm on December 11, 2019
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WordCamp.org “office hours” on Dec 19th, 2019

Let’s try this “office hours” format again! Next week, we’ll have an open hour for anything WordCamp.org related. If you’ve got a ticket you’re working on, or a problem you need help with, drop in during this time 🙂

This will happen on 2019-12-19 18:00 UTC in the #meta-wordcamp channel.

Comment below if there’s a specific ticket or topic you’d like to discuss.

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Tellyworth 5:42 am on December 6, 2019
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Block Directory plugin guidelines

As mentioned in this week’s metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. meeting, the draft guidelines for plugins submitted to the BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Directory are available for discussion:

https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-plugin-guidelines/pull/68

Your feedback and suggestions are welcome.

As a general update on the Block Directory status:

  • Blocks can be submitted to the directory using the regular plugin submission form. Make it clear that it’s a block in your description and/or correspondence with the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party review team, and we’ll include it in the Block Directory.
  • The Block Directory has a small number of block plugins already available. We’d love to add more, so please submit your plugins or let us know about any existing plugins that meet the guidelines.
  • If you’re running GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ as a plugin, you can install block plugins directly from the editor by enabling the Block Directory experimental flag:
Kelly Dwan 9:06 pm on November 19, 2019  

WordCamp.org “office hour” on Nov 21st, 2019

We’re trying something a little different this month– instead of a formal ticket scrub, we’ll just have an open hour for anything WordCamp.org related. If you’ve got a ticket you’re working on, or a problem you need help with, drop in during this time 🙂

This will happen on 2019-11-21 18:00 UTC in the #meta-wordcamp channel.

Comment below if there’s a specific ticket or topic you’d like to discuss.

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Edit: This post was published with the title “developer office hour”, but the chat is open to everyone, so it was renamed.