WordPress 3.1 is finally here!
Of the new features that arrived today, a few of my favourites are:
- Internal linking
- Improved WXR import/export (well it had to be on my list)
- Admin bar, just because of the awesome Debug Bar plugin
The following is a visualization of all the commits made to WordPress up until the release of 3.1:
The video was made using Gource on a checkout of the whole WordPress repository using the following commands.
`gource --log-command svn` > svn.log
gource --user-image-dir gravatars --disable-progress --stop-at-end --highlight-users -s 0.1 --date-format '%A, %e %B %Y' --output-ppm-stream - svn.log | ffmpeg -b 3000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libx264 -vpre medium wp-gource.mp4Unfortunately the commits appear to lose sync with the date. There are only four commits in the log for 23 February 2011, but the video shows some from a few days before. However since it took so long to create the video the first time I was not going to try again!
Time to start work on 3.2!
It’s awesome watching WP grow like that. You get a good idea of which committers work on which pieces of code by watching where they float around. Neat!
That’s awesome. It’s cool to see how often there have been releases and how the directory structure has changed throughout the years.
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That was awesome! And I just did that for bbPress too – http://blog.ashfame.com/2011/03/bbpress-development-visual-roadmap/
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Me next! I’ll do the bbPress plugin repository!
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Wicked
Only thing that is left to say is “THANK YOU GUYS” for all the awesome work!!!!