We’ll be having our monthly open source call today on Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/892306434) at 2pm Eastern. Our agenda will focus on the Q1 Roadmap as announced on Friday. Talk to you then!

In December, the Pressbooks team spent some time planning our roadmap for Q1 2019. We’ve got some exciting projects planned for the next few months. Here’s some of what we’ll be working on:

• Rebuilding the Export page with progress indicators during exports, improved management of export files, and full keyboard accessibility
• Adding progress indicators to Clone and Import pages
• Adding ORCID support for contributors
• Improving support for books with editors or translators as primary contributors
• Adding support for cloning H5P content
• Adding metadata to webbooks to make it easier to cite them with Zotero
• Adding JSON-LD metadata to webbooks
• Adding a central database table of book metadata to Pressbooks networks to improve the performance of our /books API endpoint and tools that use it
• Improving the functionality of the network catalog
• Improving usage statistics at the network level
• Adding the ability for network managers to set some default theme options at the network level
• Exploring direct importing of Google Docs
• Pursuing official certification for our LTI Provider plugin

These are our big projects; as always, we’ll continue to refine and improve Pressbooks in smaller ways in each sprint. If you have any questions we’re always happy to discuss! Our first Open Source call of the year will be on Monday, January 7th at 2pm Eastern. An agenda and Zoom link will be posted here and on our community forum by Monday morning.

This sprint is a little longer than usual as we’ll be taking a week off for the holidays. We’re focusing on theme conversions and preparation for Pressbooks 5.7.0.

We just finished our last releases of 2018, Pressbooks 5.6.3 and McLuhan 2.6.1. We’ll be deploying them to all hosted networks at the start of next week. These are minor bug fix releases which improve shortcodes, a focus style regression in McLuhan, and a bug with Hypothesis highlights which was introduced in McLuhan 2.6.0.

A note about WordPress 5.0 "Bebo": we’ve tested Pressbooks with WordPress 5.0 in our development and staging environments, and we are confident that open source users can proceed to update their networks to WordPress 5.0 without any disruption. As we previously wrote, we’ve disabled Gutenberg for the time being, so the editing experience will not be affected. We will be waiting to update our hosted networks until January.

We’ll be holding our monthly Open Source call today at 2pm EST. Here is the agenda. You can join via Zoom.

Our last full sprint of the year will be focused on bug fixes following our latest release and planning for the Pressbooks 5.7.0 and McLuhan 2.7.0 (plus Buckram 1.3.0) release cycles. We’ll be compiling ideas for implementation in the Pressbooks 5.7.0, McLuhan 2.7.0, and Buckram 1.3.0 GitHub projects.

This sprint we’re wrapping up development and testing for Pressbooks 5.6.0 and McLuhan 2.6.0 (which includes Buckram 1.2.0). We plan to release these updates on Wednesday, November 28th.

We’re also continuing research on a feature milestoned for Pressbooks 5.7.0. For more on information, you can read Dac’s blog post on his initial research from last week!