Tonya Mork 7:05 pm on December 21, 2020
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Bug Scrub Schedule for 5.7

With 5.7 officially kicked off, time to schedule the 5.7 sessions. These 5.7 specific ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. scrubs will happen each week until the final release.

Early Scrubs:

Focus: early tickets, tickets that require more time or early testing.

Alpha Scrubs:

Focus: features and enhancements.

Beta Scrubs:

Focus: issues reported from the previous beta and defects.

RC Scrubs:

Focus: issues reported from the previous RC

Check this schedule often, as it will change to reflect the latest information.

APAC-friendly scrubs will be led by @lukecarbis.

What about recurring component scrubs and triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. sessions?

The above 5.7 scheduled bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrubs are separate and in addition.

For your reference, here are some of the recurring sessions:

  • Design Triage: Every Tuesday 16:00 UTC in the #design channel (for both coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/).
  • AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Scrub: Every Friday 14:00 UTC in the #accessibility channel.
  • APAC-friendly Scrub: Every Tuesday at 05:00 UTC in the #core channel. This scrub will continue during the cycle, alternating focus between core and editor.
  • Testing Scrub: Every Friday 13:30 UTC in the #core channel.

Want to lead a bug scrub?

Did you know that anyone can lead a bug scrub at anytime? Yes, you can!

How? PingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me (@hellofromtonya) on slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. and let me know the day and time you’re considering as well as the report or tickets you want to scrub.

Planning one that’s 5.7-focused? Awesome! We’ll add it to the schedule here. You’ll get well deserved props in the weekly Dev Chat, as well as in the #props Slack channel!

Where can you find tickets to scrub?

  • Report 5 provides a list of all open 5.7 tickets:
    • Use this list to focus on highest priority tickets first.
    • Use this list to focus on tickets that haven’t received love in a while.
  • Report 6 provides a list of open 5.7 tickets ordered by workflow.

Need a refresher on bug scrubs? Checkout Leading Bug Scrubs in the core handbook.

Questions?

Have a question, concern, or suggestion? Want to lead a bug scrub? Please leave a comment or reach out directly to me (@hellofromtonya) on slack.

#5-7, #bug-scrub

Dan Farrow 8:21 am on January 23, 2021
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CSS Chat Summary: 21 January 2021

The meeting took place here on Slack. @notlaura facilitated and @danfarrow wrote up these notes (I’m trying a more bullet-pointy format this time – hope you like it!)

Housekeeping

@kburgoine has volunteered to lead next week’s bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrub which will begin at 9pm UTC on Thursday 29 January.

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Audit (#49582)

  • @ryelle is ready to merge some recent PRs on the audit tool [UPDATE now done, thanks!]
  • @notlaura is considering ideas for restructuring the property-values audits within the config file
  • @notlaura later mentioned that the !important audit report probably satisfied the requirements of #26350 and suggested that @kburgoine could bring it up at next week’s bug-scrub

Color Scheming (#49999) & Visual Regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. Testing (#49606)

  • @ryelle has had some feedback on her reduced colours PR and is hoping for one more nod from Design so she can commit in the next few days
  • @ibdz kindly offered to provide feedback this weekend
  • Next step for #49999 would be more CSS cleanup, plus picking up the previous conversations around design system, tokens & custom properties
  • @tellthemachines PR for #49606 is ready for testing – let’s go!

Open floor & CSS link share

  • @ryelle brought up #51763, a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. about moving from node-sass to dart-sass, which needs a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing.. @desrosj has offered assistance and @ryelle is happy to partner with anyone interested in helping
  • @notlaura shared a link to this CSS WG thread discussing ideas for expressing @media conditional values more tersely
  • @notlaura also shared this CSS WG thread about SCSS stats in the wild, with data analysis based on 300K SCSS stylesheets revealing that “inline if() is the second most used function (after darken() ) and accounts for 14.5% of all function calls“

Thanks everyone for attending this week!

#core-css, #summary

marybaum 6:50 pm on January 22, 2021
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Dev chat summary: January 21, 2021

The CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team postponed the afternoon dev chat for 24 hours to get past the US presidential inauguration. @metalandcoffee, aka Ebonie Butler, led the meeting on this agenda.

Announcements and highlighted posts

@metalandcoffee brought the group’s attention to these items:

Ebonie also invited the group (and you, too, dear reader!) to stop by a 5.7 test scrub. There’s one every Friday at 13:30 UTC.

Releases

The Core team is busy with one minor and one major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.

WordPress 5.6.1

5.6.1 has a squad and is deciding on a date; here are the tickets for the milestone.

WordPress 5.7

BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 lands on February 2. Here are the tickets in the milestone.

Per @hellofromtonya, aka Tonya Mork, noted there are 66 open features and enhancements that need committing or punting by Beta 1. (Ed. note: Beta 1 imposes a feature freeze on the release. After that, commits are bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes only. RC 1 imposes a string freeze, so Polyglots can finish translations before final release.)

Tonya had more to share about the milestone tickets. See the full discussion and consider pitching in on some tickets, especially, as @metalandcoffee pointed out, if there’s something you really want to see in the release.

Updates from component maintainers

@sergeybiryukov kicked off the updates with a general announcement that as of January 21, WordPress Core has more than 50,000 commits and thanked every past, present and future contributor.

Sergey also reported in for Polyglots, which added support for Austria to remove_accents() in #49967.

@audrasjb reported in that Menus has two tickets ready for commit. In Upgrade/Install, JB recognized @dd32, aka Dion Hulse, for his helpful insights on rollbacks.

In Design, @estelaris, aka Estela Rueda, asked for testing to review this Core color-change pull request, based on a discussion in the Design channel that was happening at the same time as devchat.

@xkon reported in from Privacy, saying he’s pretty sure they’ll be punting some tickets from 5.7 that need more iteration. The team also expects inputs from other teams, which happens a lot with privacy.

Agenda comments

jQuery UIUI User interface and #52163

Between standard reports and Open Floor, devchat takes up items people add to the comments on the Agenda post—and other items people specifically add.

That happened with a question @hellofromtonya had on ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #52163, which is about updating jQuery UI and removing jQuery migrate. All of that is getting punted to 5.8, but at the moment there’s no firm timeline for the new jQuery UI release. Follow the discussion as it happened here.

Consolidating instructions for local dev environments

Across the WordPress Project you can find several sets of instructions that will walk you through setting up a local development environment for building WordPress sites, themes, and plugins; contributing to all of those things plus Core; and doing lots of different kinds of testing.

Those local-environment instructions vary widely in age, approach and tooling.

@paaljoachim has started a Meta ticket (as opposed to a normal ticket) to discuss consolidating those instructions and would very much like feedback, comments and people to brainstorm with.

So far, @desrosj and @hellofromtonya have offered help. But this is a big, complicated thing — so please pitch in!

WordPress Importers

@pento offers this proposal to modernize the WordPress Importers, complete with a slew of links.

As he told the group, “

There’s a lot to read, but I’d appreciate folks taking the time to go through it. :slightly_smiling_face:2:44Much of it is fairly sensible, but the last post in the series does contain a proposal for writing exporters for CMSes that don’t provide an export option, which is a departure from our usual approach.”

See the real-time discussion here.

Visual regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. tests

@isabel_brison has a pull request that sets up visual regression testing in Core. The TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticket is #49606.

@francina raised the point that some hosts are starting to do visual regression. See that discussion here.

BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.-based navigation

@metalandcoffee: “Daniel Richards wanted to let everyone know that work on the block-based Navigation screen has picked up again, and there’s a new channel for [it] ” — #feature-navigation-block-editor.

Here’s the GitHub project.

Thoughts on browser versions?

@desrosj would like some feedback on #52331: Consider using more precise browser versions for `browserslist`.

Open Floor

@sergeybiryukov reminded the group that Beta and RC releases used to come with a haiku. He wrote one for the 50,000th commit and would like Core to restart the tradition.

@metalandcoffee volunteered to do a haiku for Beta 1 and closed the chat.

#5-6-1, #5-7, #core, #devchat

David Smith 6:19 pm on January 22, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 20th January 2021

This post summarises the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on 2021-01-20 14:00 UTC in Slack. Moderated by @get_dave.

GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Release

  • At the time of the meeting the latest release was 9.7.4.
  • The release was underway for 9.8.0 during the meeting.
  • @bernie provided us with an update:
    • Not a lot of “big” new features.
    • …but some nice enhancements.
    • Semi-transparent Spacer BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience..
    • Block Switcher now shows variation icon.
    • Major changes to the Full-Site Editing framework (see full updates below).

Preparation for WordPress 5.7 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1

  • WordPress 5.7 Beta 1 is due for release on the 2nd February 2021.
  • Beta 1 will represent the cut-off point for new commits/features for the Block Editor.
  • The deadline for changes is Gutenberg 9.9 RC on the 27th January.
  • There is a WordPress 5.7 project board where you can follow along and keep up to date with progress.

Monthly Plan & Key Project updates

Full Site Editing

Global Styles

@nosolosw provided an update via the agenda post:

@itsjonq also provided an updated on Global Styles UI:

  • Working through the integrations and improvements to the Component System for Gutenberg.
  • Came up with some design/interaction ideas for the Global Styles sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. experience. I’ve documented them as a comment in this Github issue.

Block based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. / Navigation Editor

@andraganescu provided the update:

Task Coordination

Open Floor

New Slack channel for block based Navigation screen

  • @danr mentioned in the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Dev chat that work on the block-based Navigation screen has picked up again.
  • There’s a new channel for anyone interested in following/contributing – #feature-navigation-block-editor.
  • There’s a Github project for it too.

More native mobile integration/e2e tests on Gutenberg’s PR CI

  • @hypest asked about adding more more native mobile integration/e2e tests on Gutenberg’s PR CI.
  • Some regressions recently that would have been caught with some simple automated tests before their PRs got merged.
  • Adding tests will increase the run time of the CI jobs, not much but, you know, it adds up.
  • @youknowriad recommended defaulting to adding the tests and figuring out speed improvements if needed.
  • @gziolo suggested a more detailed mobile test suite executed after every commit to the main branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch"..

Stale Issues/PR bot in Github repo

  • @mkaz followed up on last week’s stale issue topic.
  • Posted on Make and already received great feedback and comments there.
  • We plan to leave open until end of month and then will create a PR with next steps.
  • So if you have any thoughts not already captured, please comment on the post.

Custom Post types and Full Site Editing

  • @ndiego noted how he started diving into custom post types in the FSE and custom templates, but hit a lot of deadends.
  • Is this something else one is actively working on, or still well down the road in terms of FSE development?
  • @youknowriad said he did work a bit on custom templates recently (page templates) but not much custom post types. I’m sure there’s a few things we need to figure out there though.
  • Agreed to open Issues or PRs as required.

Thanks to everyone who attended!

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #meeting-notes, #summary

Francesca Marano 11:57 am on January 22, 2021
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Test Scrub for WordPress 5.7 and office hours

As part of the 5.7 release, we’ll be hosting a focused test scrub for tickets listed in this report, later today, Friday 22/01/2021 13:30 UTC in the #core channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

The report will show tickets that

Have needs-testing label

Don’t have

  • needs-testing-info
  • needs-refresh
  • needs-unit-tests
  •  2nd-opinion
  • dev-feedback

labels.

The ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. is ready to be considered for commit  but needs testing/QA.

Testing Environment

  1. Open the Terminal app
  2. Install homebrew by pasting /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" – You might be asked if you want to install the Xcode Command Line Tools, confirm.
  3. Install GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/. by typing brew install Git
  4. Install Docker by typing brew cask install Docker.
    • If you get an error you can try brew install cask Docker or install Docker Desktop 
  5. Install Node by typing brew install Node
  6. Open the Docker app in your computer and ignore the welcome screen that tells you to create a container
  7. Clone the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository with the wordpress-development environment by typing git clone and the URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org you get when you click on the green button on the top of the GitHub repo that says Code. Pick the HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. URL.
  8. Go to the directory where you cloned the repo (you can use cd wordpress-develop to locate it)
  9. Now type these 4 commands
    1. npm install
    2. npm run build:dev
    3. npm run env:start
    4. npm run env:install
  10. You should be able to access the development version of WordPress at http://localhost:8889/. You can access it with username admin and password password

How to apply a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing.

TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticket, for example 35449

npm run grunt patch:35449

How to fetch and then checkout a PR, for example, PR 828

git fetch upstream pull/828/head:pr-828
git checkout pr-828

or for PR:

npm run patch https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/828

Check the handbook for more ways to test patches.

Do you have a ticket you want to bring up for testing?

Fantastic!

In order to allow testers to manually test the patch, you should include the following information:

  • What are the steps to reproduce the problem?
  • What are the steps to test?
  • Are there any testing dependencies such as a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party or script?
  • What is the expected behavior after applying the patch?

#5-7, #test, #testing

Lara Schenck 7:11 pm on January 21, 2021
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CSS Chat Agenda: 21 January 2021

This is the agenda for the upcoming CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. meeting scheduled for Thursday, January 21, at 10:00 PM UTC. This meeting will be held in the #core-css channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

If there’s any topic you’d like to discuss, please leave a comment below!

  • Housekeeping
    • Bug scrub next week
  • Updates
    • CSS Audit (#49582)
    • Color Scheming (#49999) – Visual Regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. Testing (#49606)
  • Open floor + CSS link share

#agenda, #core-css

Bernhard Reiter 7:22 pm on January 20, 2021
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What’s new in Gutenberg 9.8? (20 January)

As the GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ team and community continue to forge ahead with implementing Full Site Editing and Global Styles, the latest installment of the Gutenberg pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (version 9.8) has been released today 🥳 As always, this release also includes many fixes and some nice new enhancements.

Semi-transparent Spacer BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.

The Spacer block, when selected, now has a semi-transparent background, rather than an (opaque) light grey one. This should make it easier to discern from any layer behind it (such as a Cover block or image), if that is of a very light color itself.

Block Switcher Shows variation icon

As a follow-up to an improvement to block variations that shipped with 9.7, the block switcher now displays the variation’s icon, rather than the block’s generic one.

Site Editor now iframed

The Site Editor now renders its content in an iframeiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser.. There is a number of reasons for this, such as avoiding adminadmin (and super admin) CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. bleed, or allowing to simply use a theme stylesheet for a site without any adjustments. Once this approach proves stable, the team is planning to make the same change to the Post Editor.

FSE: No more auto-drafts

Full-Site Editing no longer creates auto-drafts for template and template part post objects. These auto-drafts were previously needed for block templates and template parts that were based directly on files from an FSE theme without any user modifications. However, they required complex management and sync logic that proved fragile. By removing them, the team hopes to stabilize a fundamental part of FSE.

9.8 😬

Enhancements

  • Use a semi transparent background for the spacer block when selected. (28103)
  • Display matching variation icon in Block Switcher. (27903)

New APIs

  • Create Block: Allow using locally installed packages with templates. (28105)
  • Create block: Add support for static assets. (28038)
  • Compose: Export useIsomorphicLayoutEffect and use it. (28023)

Bug Fixes

  • Reusable Blocks:
    • Show an error message when a reusable block has gone missing. (28126)
    • Fix dismiss notice after error. (28015)
  • Cover Block:
    • Fix nested cover block bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.. (28114)
    • Fix invalidinvalid A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid. cover block transforms. (28087)
    • Fix cover regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5.. (28287)
    • Fix Cover focal point picker. (28350)
    • Fix matrix alignment issue. (28361)
  • Fix block error when transforming blocks with Link Popover opened. (28136)
  • Fix PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher Notice in navigation-link. (28134)
  • Prevent link paste in RichText components in Button and Navigation blocks. (28130)
  • Fix floating date status inferred for posts where the status has been edited. (28127)
  • BlockSwitcher: Fix crash due to null reference. (28122)
  • Verse: Fix line-wrap rendering on front-end of site. (28109)
  • FocalPointPicker: Fix rendering and dragging experience. (28096)
  • Block Directory: Fix “missing” block when the block can be installed from the directory. (28030)
  • Fix locked template not updating when inner blocks template prop changes. (28007)
  • Fix editor crash when registering a block pattern without categories. (27970)
  • Fix the RTL editor styles and the theme styles option. (27947)
  • Don’t close the block inserter when clicking the scrollbar or an empty area. (27946)
  • Fix AlignmentMatrixControl focus issue. (27945)
  • Fix unexpected autosave for published posts. (27942)
  • Fix RadioGroup to support zero as a Radio value. (27906)
  • Update embed block transforms to permit multiple links to be pasted in a paragraph (#27551). (27746)
  • Change the week headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. and left button style to meet the date spacing. (27730)
  • Add aria labels to box control component inputs/button. (27727)
  • Use clientWidth when no width is available for cropper. (27687)
  • CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Data: Normalize _fields value for use in stableKey. (27526)
  • Fix appender margins again. (27392)

Performance

  • Components: Expose composite APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. from Reakit. (28085)
  • Improve Inserter block hover performance. (26348)

Experiments

  • Full Site Editing Framework:
    • Load content in iframe. (25775)
    • Avoid using auto-drafts for theme templates and template parts. (27910)
      • Delete unused options while upgrading the plugin. (28164)
      • Fix _wp_file_based term deletion in migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies.. (28300)
    • Fix the border radius in the site editor. (27986)
  • theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML.:
    • Add border radius to the theme styles schema. (27791)
    • Add theme.json i18ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill. mechanism and JSON file specifying which theme.json paths are translatable. (27380)
    • Add: Save time theme.json escaping. (28061)
  • Group Block: Add border radius. (27665)
  • Hide the theme without comments.php deprecation message. (28128)
  • Fix navigation editor. (28080)
  • Widgets: Temporary fix for saving widgets. (28078)
  • Decouple query from edit site. (27972)
  • Only enable the template mode for viewable post types. (27948)
  • Box control units: Ensure custom units are preserved. (27800)
  • Navigation Block: Use draft status when user creates a post and don’t render unpublished posts in menus. (27207)

Documentation

  • Docs: Improve README file for @wordpress/create-block. (28052)
  • Create Block: Update the demo included in the README file. (28037)
  • Docs: Switch heading to Quick Start for consistency. (28019)
  • Docs: A wether, as it turns out, is a castrated ram. (28008)
  • Update Quickstart guide for the Development Environment documentation. (28005)
  • Update copyright year to 2021 in license.md. (27951)
  • Block API: Add more inline comments. (20257)
  • Changelog: Group entries for 9.8.0-rc.1. (28332)

Code Quality

  • Remove effects test file and remove unused refx dependency. (28162)
  • Annotations: Replace store name string with exposed store definition. (28156)
  • Edit Widgets: Replace store name string with exposed store definition. (28044)
  • Interface: Replace store name string with exposed store definition. (28041)
  • Upgrade Reakit to version 1.3.4. (28013)
  • Fix PHPCS warning: Undefined variable $i. (27955)
  • Consolidate block editor initializations. (27954)
  • Fix create-block PHP template files according to WordPress standards. (27949)
  • block-directory: Simplify the LOAD_ASSETS flow by making it an async function. (25956)

Tools

  • Workflows (i.e. GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Actions):
    • Create Release Draft when tagging version. (27488)
    • Add action to upload release to SVNSVN Subversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase. repo. (27591)
    • Compare Performance upon Release. (28046)
    • Build Plugin Workflow: Bump node version to 14. (28048)
  • End-to-end tests:
    • FSE: Fix intermittent errors in multi entity editing test. (28107)
    • Fix randomly failing end-to-end test. (28073)
    • Upgrade puppeteer to 5.5.0. (28055)
    • Performance tests: Fix. (28026)
  • Scripts:
    • Align default engines for check-engines with the package. (28143)
    • Add support for static assets in build commands. (28043)
    • Make it possible to transpile .jsx files with build command. (28002)
    • ESLint minor version upgrade to 7.17.0. (27965)
    • Upgrade Jest to the new major version (26.x). (27956)
    • Use wordpress/stylelint-config in wordpress/scripts. (27810)
  • Linting:
    • ESLint Plugin: Enable import rules used in Gutenberg. (27387)
    • Add no-unsafe-wp-apis to recommended configuration. (27327)
    • Remove /wordpress from test/linting ignore paths. (20270)
    • Update changelog for stylelint-config. (28074)
  • Testing: Prevent a direct usage of Reakit. (28095)
  • Update the minimum Node.js version to 12. (27934)
  • wp-env: Ensure the environment is used with the logs command. (27907)
  • Packages: Fully automate npm publishing with the latest and next tags (28335)
  • Upgrade webpack to version 5. (26382)
  • Revert “Upgrade webpack to version 5”. (27974)

Various

  • Gutenpride Template:
    • New Package to use with the tutorial. (27881)
    • Create Block: Enhancements to Gutenpride tutorial template. (28215)
  • URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org: Remove redundant array coercion. (28072)
  • Visual editor: Remove focusable wrapper. (28058)
  • Readme: Increase tested Version up to WP 5.6. (28050)
  • Interface: Remove deprecated prop from InterfaceSkeleton. (28034)
  • List View: Reduce whitespace and always show nested blocks. (28029)
  • Making the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. inspector’s tabs stick when scrolling. (28003)
  • Chore: Update Lerna dependency. (27990)
  • Try: Make focus width a CSS variable. (27968)
  • Add translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. context to all block’s titles. (27933)
  • Add primary destructive button style. (27774)
  • Modifies the widgets dashboard link to point to the new widgets editor. (26880)
  • Use standard select element for small number of authors. (26426)
  • Add srcset for cover image. (25171)

Performance Benchmark

The following benchmark compares performance for a particularly sizeable post (~36,000 words, ~1,000 blocks) over the last releases. Such a large post isn’t representative of the average editing experience but is adequate for spotting variations in performance.

VersionLoading TimeKeyPress Event (typing)
Gutenberg 9.85.55s29.05ms
Gutenberg 9.75.29s26.32ms
WordPress 5.64.66s28.57ms

Kudos to all the contributors that helped with the release! 🙏

#core-editor, #editor, #gutenberg, #gutenberg-new

Ebonie Butler 6:30 pm on January 19, 2021  

Dev Chat Agenda for January 20, 2021 & January 21, 2021


Here is the agenda for this week’s meetings to occur at the following times: January 20, 2021 at 5:00 UTC and January 21, 2021 at 20:00 UTC.

Please note that the regular dev chat will be one day later due to the U.S. Presidential Inauguration. The APAC-friendly dev chat will remain at its usual time.

Blogblog (versus network, site) Post Highlights

Next Releases

  • WordPress 5.6.1 (Release to be scheduled)
  • WordPress 5.7 (BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 is 2 weeks away 🎉 on February 2nd)

Components check-in and status updates

  • Check-in with each component for status updates.
  • Poll for components that need assistance.

Open Floor 🗣

Do you have something to propose for the agenda, or a specific item relevant to our standard list above?

Please leave a comment, and say whether or not you’ll be in the chat, so the group can either give you the floor or bring up your topic for you, accordingly.

This meeting happens in the #core channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Making WordPress Slack.

Dan Farrow 10:29 am on January 19, 2021
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CSS Chat Summary: 14 January 2021

The meeting took place here on Slack. @notlaura facilitated and @danfarrow wrote up these notes.

Housekeeping

@notlaura pointed out that we missed a scheduled bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrub today which started a short discussion about how to make them consistent.

The outcome was that the lead for each scrub should be established the week before which @notlaura will check in with to make sure the scrub can go ahead as planned. If necessary an upcoming scrub can be skipped and removed from the meetings calendar.

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Audit (#49582)

@danfarrow reported having made a PR to reorganise the audit tool’s HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. report directory structure with the goal of simplification. He also moved the report stylesheet into /src and added a command to copy it into /public, which means that files inside /public need no longer be edited manually.

@notlaura noted that the property values reports issue still needs to be resolved. She linked to this related github issue as a place to discuss & keep track of ideas.

Color Scheming (#49999) & Visual Regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. Testing (#49606)

@isabel_brison shared her PR to add visual regression tests for wp-admin pages which is now ready for review/testing. This will be a very useful addition to the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. testing suite, particularly for CSS.

@ryelle reported that she shared her reduced colours branch in dev chat and is hoping for more feedback, from design especially. To encourage this she also added needs-testing to #49999. The branch is available here – please have a look.

Open floor & CSS link share

@isabel_brison shared a link to Web Directions’ call for speakers for their upcoming CSS conference. The deadline is the end of this month so get those proposals in!

@notlaura shared a useful reference for logical CSS functions min, max and clamp.

@danfarrow shared a piece of CSS esoteria: an ugly hack for rounding values down with two decimal places.

This prompted wry speculation on the usefulness of 0.01px precision, and with that the meeting concluded. Thanks everyone!

#core-css, #design, #summary

David Smith 9:15 am on January 19, 2021
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Editor chat agenda: 20th January 2021

Facilitator and notetaker: @get_dave.

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for 2021-01-20 14:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

  • GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 9.8 release (release candidate already available).
  • WordPress 5.7 Beta 1.
  • Monthly Plan for January 2021 and key project updates:
    • Global Styles.
    • BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor.
    • Full Site Editing.
  • Task Coordination.
  • Open Floor.

If you can’t attend the meeting, you’re encouraged to share anything relevant for the discussion:

  • If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.
  • If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

#agenda, #core-editor, #core-editor-agenda, #meeting

Jb Audras 10:12 pm on January 18, 2021
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A Week in Core – January 18, 2021

Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between January 11, 2021 and January 18, 2021.

  • 18 commits
  • 41 contributors
  • 47 tickets created
  • 4 tickets reopened
  • 102 tickets closed

As we get closer to the first betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. of WordPress 5.7, the Core activity has started to increase again this week 📈😎

Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers are based on the Trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code changes

Administration

  • Update hover and focus states in adminadmin (and super admin) menu – #28599
  • AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility): Remove <strong> tags from labels on pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party/theme editor screens – #52232

Bundled Themes

  • Twenty Twenty-One: Remove duplicate CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. rules – #52158
  • Twenty Twenty-One: Remove leftover file from `build:rtl` task – #52293

Coding Standards

  • Improve code layout in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-media-list-table.php – #51014
  • Coding Standards: Fix WPCS issue in [49963] – #52316

Customize

  • Update button label reference in themes help text to reflect the label introduced in [41626] – #52271

Docs

  • Correct description for wp_slash() and wp_unslash() – #51800
  • Docs: Clarify the instructions on starting the local environment for the first time – #52278

I18Ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill.

  • Add support for German (Austria) localeLocale A locale is a combination of language and regional dialect. Usually locales correspond to countries, as is the case with Portuguese (Portugal) and Portuguese (Brazil). Other examples of locales include Canadian English and U.S. English. in remove_accents() – #52110
  • I18N: Add context for the Public string in site attributes list on Edit Site screen – #52309

Media

  • Use consistent method for instantiating an attachment author object in Media Library – #52030

Menus

  • Fix minor UIUI User interface issues on Edit Menus screen on smaller viewports – #49245, #51706

Posts, Post Types

  • Introduce a filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. paginate_links() output – #44018

Privacy

  • Use more consistent wording for strings related to personal data requests – #51849

REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/.

  • Allow sending an empty array to delete multi metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. keys – #50790

Script Loader

  • Remove unused source file for wp-a11y.js which was replaced with the @wordpress/a11y package – #50093

Widgets

  • Implement TinyMCE on text widgets in Accessibility Mode – #52073

Props

Thanks to everyone who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week:

@audrasjb (7), @mukesh27 (3), @afercia (3), @sabernhardt (2), @ibdz (2), @poena (1), @rianrietveld (1), @Boniu91 (1), @ravipatel (1), @jomisica (1), @accessiblejoe (1), @florianziegler (1), @hedgefield (1), @michaelarestad (1), @ryan (1), @yoavf (1), @chemiker (1), @paaljoachim (1), @estelaris (1), @SergeyBiryukov (1), @passoniate (1), @nonverbla (1), @pawki07 (1), @alexstine (1), @carloscastilloadhoc (1), @hellofromTonya (1), @garrett-eclipse (1), @re.ardestani (1), @laxman-prajapati (1), @hansjovisyoast (1), @MadtownLems (1), @hareesh-pillai (1), @chrisvanpatten (1), @dariak (1), @xkon (1), @transl8or (1), @ovidiul (1), @johnbillion (1), @patopaiar (1), @antpb (1) and @justinahinon (1).

Please welcome our 8 new Core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org. of the week ♥️
@jomisica, @nonverbla, @pawki07, @carloscastilloadhoc, @reardestani, @dariak, @ovidiul and @patopaiar.

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (11), @ocean90 (3), @ryelle (2), @joedolson (1) and @timothyblynjacobs (1)..

#5-6-1, #5-7, #week-in-core