[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #19592: Automate script and style compression and bumps

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#19592: Automate script and style compression and bumps
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 Reporter:  nacin         |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  3.4
Component:  General       |    Version:
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 Commits with CSS changes (and to a lesser extent JS changes) are polluted
 with thousands of characters of scripts and styles. This was agitated
 further in 3.3 with the merge of most CSS into a single file.

 These commits are more difficult to review, both for wp-svn and on Trac,
 and most certainly get less eyes.

 Here's a tiered proposal to fix this:

  1. After a commit that edits a .dev.css or .dev.js file, a bot should
 compress all relevant files, bump all relevant version numbers, and commit
 this as a subsequent revision.

  2. Use a single version number for all scripts and styles. For users, the
 only necessary version number is the WordPress version. The individual
 version numbers benefit development only. We should merge this into a
 single variable to be bumped, thus invalidating all cache files, to make
 it simple.

  3. This single variable should actually be $wp_version. We already
 manually add SVN revision numbers to beta and RC versions to provide
 additional context in nightly builds. The bot can instead be charged with
 bumping $wp_version to add or update a revision number. We will still be
 able to update (or remove, in the case of a pre-release or final release)
 the revision number on our own, as necessary.

 Attached patch handles 2 and 3. The bot still needs to be written.

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