Modernizing a Stagnant Toolbox

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A WordPress build and repo overhaul modernizes tooling without breaking existing SVN workflows by introducing a develop source repo plus synced core.svn and Git mirrors, adopting Grunt as a task runner, adding grunt-patch-wordpress and grunt-cssjanus, and integrating JSHint, QUnit, Travis CI and Autoprefixer. JS style cleanup is community-driven and fixes nearly 1,000 initial JSHint errors; test visibility more than doubles yearly additions (382 new tests vs 136), Sass is used sparingly for admin color schemes, and builds remain runnable for contributors.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:22Problems
3. 2:55Hidden Problems
4. 3:56Our Goal
5. 4:42Tools
6. 5:32Ease of Development
7. 6:18Better Patches
8. 7:04Devsvn
9. 7:43Coresvn
10. 8:45Grunt
11. 10:00Grunt Modules
12. 10:43Grunt Patch WordPress
13. 11:25Simplifying the Process
14. 12:47Sibling Projects
15. 14:02JSN
16. 15:37WP CLI
17. 17:32JavaScript Unit Tests
18. 19:31Editor Config
19. 20:18CSS
20. 21:55AutoPrefixER
21. 23:14Vagrant
22. 24:10Have goals
23. 25:06Dont create new problems
24. 26:21Questions

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