Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 14 years ago
#3992 closed enhancement
Get WP's bumpbot for compressing js/css and incrementing version numbers — at Version 1
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| Milestone: | 1.6 | Priority: | normal |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | |
| Component: | Core | Keywords: | dev-feedback needs-patch |
| Cc: | nacin |
Description (last modified by )
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
No time at the moment to write a patch, but I can look at it later. Any objections?