June 6th: Dev chat #5

It’s time for our 5th dev chat, if you missed something in the last one, you can recap our summary here.

The next chat will be on June 6th at 16:00 UTC in the #core channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. If you don’t already have access to the group, you can request an invite at the bottom of the WooCommerce developers page.

Here is the agenda:

WooCommerce 3.1 Beta progress.
Rest API feature plugin.
Anything else? Contribution ideas, projects, & thoughts.

If you have anything to propose for the agenda or related to the above, please leave a comment below.

See you there!

Keep yourself in the loop!

5 responses to “June 6th: Dev chat #5”

Brent

May 31, 2017

Now that woo.com extension licenses will be managed in WooCommerce core from v3.1 onwards, something I’d love to chat about is whether extension compatibility management is slated to be included in core as well (and what that would look like if it is).

The worst issues we’ve seen store owners having with 3.0 the last couple of months stem from updating WooCommerce before updating Subscriptions or other extensions. If core included some extension compatibility handling with basic version dependency management, it could help a lot of store owners avoid those types of issues with WC 4.0 and beyond.

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1. Job
  
  June 1, 2017
  
  That sounds like a great suggestion. It’s a pity that it wouldn’t solve incompatibility checks with extensions that are sold on other marketplaces than woo.com.
  
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  1. Caleb Burks
    
    June 1, 2017
    
    Not necessarily though I think. Any extension could perhaps hook into the dependency management system.
    
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    1. Brent
      
      June 2, 2017
      
      Yeah, there’s no reason the dependency management couldn’t be based on something as simple & open as an extra header entry in each extension’s readme file, like WordPress’ “Tested up to:” header: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/how-your-readme-txt-works/#readme%c2%a0header-information
      
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Maria

June 9, 2017

Notes from dev chat on this topic: https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/dev-chat-summary-june-6th/

– Sites had a high amount of errors when people upgraded to WooCommerce 3.0 and were using extensions that were not ready for WooCommerce 3.0.
– We need to show warnings or programmatically manage extensions that are not compatible with new versions of WooCommerce somehow.
– An issue has been created on GitHub for this. Please leave feedback or ideas.

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