Well, this weekend was Bug Hunt weekend! The WordPress community got together in #wordpress-bugs on Freenode, with the task of whittling down the list of bugs. It was a good opportunity for me, being someone with a knowledge enough of PHP to be able to do something like fix bugs, but not having done any real bug hunting in the past. You can view a list of the bugs squashed this weekend (88 at last count!).
Here’s a list of what I was involved in (in each case, the ‘ticket’ link is a link to the ticket on WordPress Trac, our bug tracking system):
- You can now view your Role in your Profile page, and also administrators can edit roles of users in the Edit User screen. Ticket.
- The option to enable or disable WYSIWYG isn’t shown to subscribers, who can’t post anything. Ticket.
- In a big enhancement which took a lot of Sunday, you can now save pages as drafts. Ticket.
- Just a minor thing, but something that’s annoyed me in the past: the categories on the post screen are now sorted alphabetically. Ticket.
- You can now customise other ‘bases’ in Options, Permalink (i.e., other than the category base). Ticket.
As it was actually quite a busy weekend (I had to fit in bug hunting around playing hockey on Saturday and going to church this morning), I think this was quite a success. Some small bugs, some pet peeves, and one big new feature.
Hopefully the devs/bug gardeners will catch up with all the new patches over the coming week, and before long we’ll see some of the fixes filter into wordpress.com.
