I think it’s important for all team leads to use these updates to show activity and progress in each of the teams they lead. That is also the reason for my update being delayed.
Core team
Work continues in the ClassicPress codebase on preparing version 1.2.0. Here is a new prototype of the main feature of this release, an option that lets users set a custom image on the login page:
The “banner” option is for images that are wider than they are tall (at least a 3:1 ratio is ideal), at request of @ozfiddler if I remember correctly. I plan to release this change and accompanying documentation page along with the rest of version 1.2.0-rc1 as soon as possible.
Anyone who would like to help with this release, or just follow along with the process and ask questions, is welcome to join the core development meeting later this week. The meeting will take place between Wednesday, August 5th and Friday, August 7th 2020-08-06T15:30:00Z in the #core channel on Slack.
Infrastructure team
The various ClassicPress sites continue running as intended. I recently used the server logs from our updates API to diagnose an issue related to automatic updates.
This may be more of a “directors” update, but since it will involve the CP technical infrastructure I will post it here anyway: we are also working on a solution to accept donations directly on our website since the services we’ve tried so far have proven either too expensive, unreliable or both. Credit card details will be sent directly to Stripe and will never be stored on our website or in our databases.