Move bpdevel to bp.org

[sooskriszta]

Following the example of other WordPress projects, we should move ​http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/ to buddypress.org

[DJPaul]

We have wanted to do this for a couple of years but haven't had time due to prioritising working on other things. We do want to do this but not sure when it'll happen yet.

[mercime]

I hope we get to import our 9,708 subscribers at bpdevel to BuddyPress.org when we do transfer :)

[netweb]

Replying to mercime:

I hope we get to import our 9,708 subscribers at bpdevel to BuddyPress.org when we do transfer :)

If Jetpack is installed on the new make.buddypress.org site subscribers can be migrated per:

​https://jetpack.com/support/subscriptions/transferring-followers/

[mercime]

Just to note for the record that as of 03-28-2017, we now have 10,031 subscribers at bpdevel.wordpress.com

[mercime]

All for moving bpdevel to buddypress.org. As of 10-18-2017 we have 10,044 subscribers at bpdevel.wordpress.com

[imath]

Hi,

I've been working locally on what could be "Make.BuddyPress.org" a BuddyPress.org hosted Project/Contribution Updates site. I suggest this site would be available from the "Get Involved" menu item of the BuddyPress.org main nav.

Needed plugins

1. Already available into the BuddyPress.org network since Developer.BuddyPress.org is up

• Handbook
• Jetpack
• SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

2. New plugins

• o2 (​https://github.com/automattic/o2)
• o2 HoverCards (​https://github.com/imath/o2-hovercards)
• Time shortcode for P2 and o2 blogs (​https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/pub/wporg-time-shortcode.php)

As @netweb commented earlier: we'll need to ​migrate the BP Devel subscriptions.

Needed themes

• P2 Breathe (​https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/p2-breathe/)
• BPorg Breathe (​https://github.com/imath/bporg-breathe)

The BPorg Breathe Theme is a child theme of the P2 Breathe theme.

Homepage

• Gives details about how contributors can get involved. The content is a copy of the content of the current ​Get Involved page.
• There's a welcome box containing a summary about how to contribute, meet in Slack etc.. displayed on each page
• The Site's navigation is containing links to the Project Updates (The content currently available on ​BP Devel), to the BuddyPress contributor Handbook, to Trac tickets report, to Trac's source browser and the last icon is a link to report a new bug.

Project Updates

Contributors can post updates from the front end or use the regular WordPress editor. I've build a ​specific plugin to add hovercards to ticket numbers. It's working for each existing svn repository (buddypress, core, meta etc...). Here's a screenshot of an example of hovercard:

Handbook

This part will need some extra work to write some pages about how to contribute to support, beta testing, code (eg: how to submit, test a patch..)

Team

This page is a suggestion: we could use the Feedback feature of JetPack to let people ask us to help them put together a BuddyPress table during a contributor day or help people prepare their talk about BuddyPress for a WordCamp...

Feedbacks welcome!

[mercime]

❤ @imath plus related post ​https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2019/12/02/a-new-site-for-buddypress-contributors/ This should be considered during the BuddyPress redesign process.

[imath]

@mercime I agree, as well as the ​developer.buddypress.org's theme.

I saw you requested an account on the 'Make BP' test drive. I'll do some cleaning on the site (WP/BP upgrades) as well as some bug fixing with o2 this week-end, once done I'll give you access to it.