Bristol Sprint

We're just wrapping up the first of two post-CiviCon code sprints, where 24 people came together at Butcombe Farms near Bristol. People worked on an amazing variety of things to make 4.2 more stable, and to contribute some awesome features to 4.3. Some of the things we did were:

• Leez, Coleman and Simon all worked on the cool new notification system.
• Eileen and Yashodha contributed a fix for contribution api & import in 4.2 and added a new API for price sets and line-items.
• Micah has gotten jQuery validate up and running on 4.3 and integrated it with our notifications. He also worked on ui enhancements to contribution pages and other public forms.
• Rajesh contributed the much-requested Wordpress permissioning system, and made some cool improvements to the quicksearch allowing selectable search fields.
• CiviMobile keeps getting better thanks to Peter and Kurund.
• Parvez contributed support for UK direct debit payment processing, which allows for no-fee payments.
• The book team worked on streamlining the system for adding documentation so we can get new editions published faster. Thanks to Michael, Dave, Ollie and Peter.
• The core team started planning some exciting improvements to profiles and forms.

Next up most of us are moving on the the 2nd sprint at Apeldoorn. Want to come join us? There's still time! And if you can't make it in person, hop on the IRC and ask how you can help :).