Get WP's bumpbot for compressing js/css and incrementing version numbers

[boonebgorges]

See ​#WP1952.

WordPress recently introduced the 'bumpbot', a sister script to potbot that regularly checks for changes to .dev.css/.dev.js files, bumps version numbers if necessary to bust browser caches, and compresses them.

nacin has offered to help set up bumpbot for BP. Before we can move forward, we have to regularize our version strings. We're currently using date strings like '20120210', at least in bp-default's main css/js files. WP's opted to use $wp_version throughout (removing manual version specifications when registering scripts, thereby falling back on $wp_version; see ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/19621).

nacin reasonably suggests that we do something similar. Switch our js/css version number to $bp->version, and have the bumpbot autoincrement it here ​http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-loader.php#L55. We'll have to pass our version manually to wp_register_script(), of course.

No time at the moment to write a patch, but I can look at it later. Any objections?

[fanquake]

+1

[johnjamesjacoby]

Works for me.

[johnjamesjacoby]

(In [5751]) First pass at replacing manual script versions with bp_get_version(). See #3992.

[johnjamesjacoby]

(In [5753]) How much bot could a bumpbot bump if a bumpbot could bump bots. See #3992.

[johnjamesjacoby]

boone - are you able to work with Nacin to get this going?

[nacin]

(In [5784]) Compress CSS/JS using the latest version of YUI Compressor, 2.4.7. Removes final semicolon in a CSS declaration block. Previously, committers used 2.4.2. fixes #3992.

[nacin]

bumpbot is now operational.

For those curious, /*! marks that a comment should remain after compression, such as a licensing header. The ! is no longer stripped to allow for accidental re-minification to produce the same result.