On the 25th of december 2009, Jenifer Wells, who works with automattic, published “Setting Scope” on WordPress.org. In her article she summarized how the development process had been before and how it was going to be for next release WordPress 3.0. To sum up the development cycle was going to be a lot more focused than previously and the core team were going to make a development plan before starting the process. As a part of the process they asked the WordPress community which features and enhancements they would like to see in WordPress 3.0. This resulted in 186 suggestions from the WordPress community, and some of the suggestions I found very interesting.
I have been following the development of WordPress 3.0 with excitement. It is evident from the developer site that developers are working hard to get WordPress 3.0 done.
When the feature freeze for development came 1086 tickets had been accepted into the next release of WordPress.
This week the number of open tickets has been falling steadily and currently only 21 tickets are active, which means that 98% of the next release is complete. Only a week ago this number was five times higher, which is why this author hopes to see a release of WordPress 3.0 this week.
The scope of 3.0 has was decided, 7th of January 2010 on dev chat in IRC and included the following features:
- Merge of WordPress and WordPress MU
- Better support for post types
- New default theme and
- Better menu management.
Im very excited about the new menu function which supposedly is going to be as easy as drag’n'drop like with WP widgets. If you are interested in the details read more here.
Lets hope that WordPress will be out this week!