12 February 2016

News and blog posts

• Work has started on the Admin API (RFC), a RESTful API to be used by components of the admin interface
  
• Wagtail and Streamfields (community blog post)
  
• We're making an effort to track support requests on StackOverflow, as well as on Google Groups. Tag your question 'wagtail' to get it noticed.
• Is your site on madewithwagtail.org yet? Why not?!
• We're discussing the layout of key actions in the edit screen footer

Notable changes

6 pull requests were merged in the last week, including these 5 significant changes

• Added confirmation message to help prevent data loss on unsaved pages (Karl Hobley)
• Display the details of server errors when they occur in the multi-image uploader (Nigel Fletton)
• Fixes to page ordering logic in explorer (Matt Westcott)
• Add "testing" and "docs" requirements so pip install -e .[testing, docs] can be used (Charlie Choiniere)
• Reorganise Hooks reference docs into meaningful sections (Matt Westcott)

New pull requests

The following changes have been submitted in the past week and are awaiting review.

• Output sass errors in terminal and prevent gulp watch from exiting (Thomas Winter)
  
• Prevent email send errors from crashing the admin pages (Matt Fozard)
• Update home stats summary CSS (Nicolas Kuttler)
  
• construct_explorer_page_queryset hook for customising explorer page listings (Matt Westcott)
• Use specific page models on explorer page listing (Matt Westcott)

RFCs

RFCs are proposals for major new features that are open for discussion in the community. They can either be created as a GitHub issue or as a more formal document in the RFCs repository.

One new RFC has been created this week:

• Menus
  

This week's other open RFCs:

• Proxy page models
• Collections for image/document organisation
• Admin API
• Wagtail API V2
• Revisions UI (PR #2170)
  
• Admin view sets

Contributors

• Charlie Choiniere
• Nigel Fletton
• Andrew Pryde
• Liam Brenner
• Josh Barr