Jb Audras 8:48 pm on April 5, 2021
Tags: 5.7.1 ( 7 ), 5.8, week in core ( 111 )

A Week in Core – April 5, 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 March 29 and April 5, 2021.

25 commits
26 contributors
41 tickets created
5 tickets reopened
34 tickets closed

Reminder: WordPress 5.7.1 is planned for April 14, 2021, so we are currently in the development cycle of the next point releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality..

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

Build/Test Tools

Rename some Grunt tasks to use hyphens instead of camelCase – #52625
Fix jQuery deprecation – #51812
Cleanup link-manager.zip after 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/. tests are finished – #52579
Prevent the workflow for testing old branches from running on forks – #52653

Coding Standards

Give some variables in WP_Importer a more meaningful name – #52627
Use strict comparison in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-*.php – #52627
Move some translator comments to the correct place – #52627
Remove some extra whitespace in get_item_schema – #52627
Removing unnecessary parentheses from require_once in wp-admin/options-privacy.php – #52627
Use strict comparison in wp-admin/includes/class-core-upgrader.php – #52627
Remove some extra whitespace in _wp_translate_postdata() – #52627

Documentation

Clarify return results for a non-existing ID in metadata functions – #51797
Document the import_id parameter of wp_insert_post() – #52943
Add documentation for the ::setup_export_contents_test method used in personal data export tests – #51423
Fix indentation for wp_term_query->construct method parameters – #52839

Editor

Update the default writing prompt to match the 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. editor – #52948
Consolidate enqueueing block editor assets in wp-includes/default-filters.php – #52920
Enqueue assets for format library for the block editor – #52920

External Libraries

Update Underscore to version 1.12.1 – #45785
Upgrade PHPMailer from 6.3.0 to 6.4.0 – #52822
Update polyfill versions in the script loader – #52854
Update the path to polyfill-library files in Webpack – #52854
Update several polyfill libraries – #52854

Formatting

KSES: Add object-position to the list of safe CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. properties – #52961

REST API

REST API: Correct enum validation for numeric values – #52932

Props

Thanks to the 26 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week:

@SergeyBiryukov (5), @desrosj (4), @audrasjb (3), @TimothyBlynJacobs (2), @rachelbaker (2), @gziolo (2), @yakimun (1), @Synchro (1), @hellofromTonya (1), @ellatrix (1), @donmhico (1), @ocean90 (1), @galbaras (1), @ayeshrajans (1), @tigertech (1), @Mamaduka (1), @johnbillion (1), @aristath (1), @stefanjoebstl (1), @davidkryzaniak (1), @icopydoc (1), @Joen (1), @TimoTijhof (1), @hareesh-pillai (1), @mukesh27 (1), and @whyisjake (1).

Please welcome our 3 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 ♥️
@stefanjoebstl, @davidkryzaniak, and @icopydoc.

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (11), @davidbaumwald (7), @desrosj (4), @ocean90 (1), @jorbin (1), and @gziolo (1).

#5-7-1, #5-8, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 7:15 am on April 4, 2021
Tags: 5.7.1 ( 7 ), 5.8, core-auto-updates ( 17 ), dev chat ( 427 ), summaries ( 36 ), summary ( 397 )

Dev Chat meeting Summary – March 31, 2021

This is the weekly meetings summary of the WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team. The facilitator for this week’s chats was @markparnell at 05:00 UTC and @francina at 20:00 UTC. Here is the meeting agenda.

Link to 05:00 UTC devchat meeting on the core channel on Slack

Link to 20:00 UTC devchat meeting on the core channel on Slack

Announcements & News

Upcoming releases

WordPress 5.7.1

In line with the trial for consistent minor release leads for each major branch, all the 5.7.x point releases will be led by @peterwilsoncc, with @audrasjb as deputy.

Here is the expected 5.7.1 release schedule:

Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta).: Wednesday 7 April, 2021 around 23:00 UTC
Final release: Wednesday 14 April, 2021 around 23:00 UTC

There are 33 tickets in the milestone:

10 are already closed as fixed
3 are fixed and reopened for proper backportbackport A port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch.

@audrasjb announced a new 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 right after the devchat, and will run another one on Tuesday April 6, 2021 at 20:00 UTC.

Note: At the time this meeting recap is published, there are now 31 tickets in the milestone. 12 are fixed, 4 are reopened. The ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. with the higher priority was fixed (#52822).

Please note that this WordPress 5.7 board is the one to watch for 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/ updates that will need to land in this release.

WordPress 5.8

@francina shared some blogposts worth reading, where a new, experimental, release cycle is proposed, and the early bug scrubs schedule is now available.

Core related blogblog (versus network, site) posts

Some thoughts were shared about the last item (Add a testing template to TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.). People are invited to comment in the blog post.

@francina suggested to follow make.wordpress.org/updates as this blog has updates from Make teams + project leadership.

Component maintainers updates

Build/Test Tools (@sergeybiryukov): Work has continued on backporting recent build and test tool improvements to the older branches still receiving security updates. See ticket #52653 for more details.

Date/Time (@sergeybiryukov): No major news this week.

General (@sergeybiryukov): No major news this week.

Internationalization (@sergeybiryukov): No major news this week.

Permalinks (@sergeybiryukov): No major news this week.

Menus (@audrasjb): JB did some Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. last week.

Widgets (@audrasjb): no major news this week.

Upgrade/Install (@audrasjb / @afragen): The team is still looking for feedback concerning the feature plugin. @francina asked if it would be useful to organize a test scrub. I would be a nice idea, and @afragen answered there’s a simple way to force the rollback for testing. The Upgrade/Install team will discuss this during the next #core-auto-updates weekly meeting on Tuesday April 6, 2021 at 18:00 UTC.

Toolbar (@sabernhardt): no triage planned this week, but @sabernhardt will probably will have another session in a few weeks.

Open floor

@chanthaboune noted that there are listening hours next week with her and Matt.

@annezazu dropped in a call out to help with the latest call for testing for the Full Site Editing Outreach Experiment: FSE Program Testing 4 – Building a restaurant themed header.

@chanthaboune shared that the recent Slack outage caused some additional things to break, so if folks see things that usually work but aren’t now, please feel free to let her know.

#5-7-1, #5-8, #dev-chat, #summaries, #summary

Francesca Marano 6:58 pm on March 30, 2021
Tags: 5.8, planning ( 12 )

5.8 Pre-planning

Following Josepha’s early thoughts on 5.8 planning, I am kicking off the pre-planning phase of WordPress version 5.8.

Full site editing in 5.8

The plan for WordPress 5.8 is to merge and release the minimum viable product (MVP) of full site editing (FSE). This makes this release particularly complex to handle. It’s a new, exciting change, and it needs the appropriate time to marinate in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. for contributors with enough time to work on it.

Schedule

I would like to propose the following schedule.

Milestone	Date	Days from
Alpha	February 23, 2021
First FSE go/no go date	April 13, 2021
Second FSE go/no go date	April 27, 2021
(If go) FSE Merge	To be determined, but as soon as possible after being greenlighted
Feature freeze/Bug Fixes	May 25, 2021	91 days after Alpha
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	June 8, 2021	14 days after Feature Freeze
Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 1	June 29, 2021	21 days after Beta 1
General release	July 20, 2021	21 days after RC1

What’s this “Feature Freeze” step?

As previously discussed (first post, second post), mixing defect work and beta testing is not great for a number of reasons:

As a project, we want to respect the beta testers efforts by not introducing new bugs (defect work fixes) in areas they’ve already tested.
A mature software project has a beta period during which the focus is on testing changes made during alpha period to ensure its stability.
Having a separate deadline for enhancements/features and bugs is beneficial to allow developers to switch focus after the first deadline to address a slew of outstanding bugs.

Enter the “Feature Freeze” step: two weeks where contributors and committers can take care of the thousands of defect tickets in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

This process should allow time to dedicate appropriate attention to those tickets, without taking attention and resources away from beta testing, which needs to be a priority, especially in this release.

Squad

With such a complex release, Core needs a group of experienced contributors leading the release. For this release, the ride-along/mentorship will pause so that the leads, with previous experience in releases, can focus on the process.

Pre WP5.8 Squad – Skeleton Crew

The period leading to the go/no go step, will need a minimal squad that will focus on:

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. hunting for WP5.7.x minor releases
triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. and group tickets into future milestones
test Core and FSE tickets and PRs

We are kicking off with a minimal squad of three roles:

Release Coordinator: @francina
Triage: @lukecarbis (EU/AU) @desrosj (AMER)
Communications: @chanthaboune

Full Squad

Once we’re past the go/no go dates the skeleton crew, together with the project leadership, will determine which skills are needed to successfully complete the cycle.

What about scope?

The focus of the release is full site editing. As suggested in the recent FSE FAQ, the specific scope is to merge the interface that allows for template interaction outside of content, as well as 20+ new blocks, and design tools. This part of the FSE merge will not be offered to users by default, but instead will be geared toward our extender community (theme authors, 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 developers, agencies, builders, etc) so that they can experiment with their users in mind.

As with other releases, it is possible to include more features, provided someone can spearhead them.

I will start a round of check-ins with component maintainers as soon as the timeline is confirmed.

#5-8, #planning

Jb Audras 9:43 pm on March 29, 2021
Tags: 5.7.1 ( 7 ), 5.8, week in core ( 111 )

A Week in Core – March 29, 2021

27 commits
41 contributors
60 tickets created
13 tickets reopened
51 tickets closed

Code changes

Administration

Use a darker gray color for various adminadmin (and super admin) UIUI User interface items – #52760

Build/Test Tools

Remove explicit puppeteer dependency – #52843
Update some devDependencies – #52624
Run code coverage workflow when the file is updated – #52786
Run code coverage workflow using parallel jobs – #52923
Do not checkout the Importer 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 in the Code Coverage workflow – #52625
Fix code coverage reporting to generate report from src – #52786, #51734
Run test workflows on old branches on a schedule – #52653
Disable fail-fast for the NPM testing workflow – #52625

Bundled Themes

Twenty Twelve: Change theme version back to 3.3 – #52704

Documentation

Spell “non-existent” in a consistent way – #52628
Fix description for $htmlhint argument in code editor settings – #52628

Editor

Add image default size to 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. editor settings – #52896
Add new theme categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. for block types – #52883

General

Check if the _export_data_grouped post 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. is an array when generating a personal data export file – #51423
Correct expected data type for WP_User_Search::$page property – #51423

Login and Registration

Restore the “Error:” prefix for the “Unknown username” message – #52914, #52915
Add the “Error:” prefix to some password reset messages – #52914
Prevent button misalignment on login screen – #52834
Prevent button misalignment on password reset screen – #52834

Media

Conditionally pass 2nd parameter to getimagesize() – #52826

Posts, Post Types

Remove / from non-self-closing “clear” div tags – #52878

Privacy

Print screen reader text for the “Copy suggested policy text…” action button – #52891
Privacy: Wrap text in buttons on privacy policy guide – #52751

Query

Consistently include a space in parentheses in WP_Meta_Query::get_sql_for_clause() – #49279

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/.

Prevent database error when deleting meta data – #52787

Robots

Remove contradictory directive check in wp_robots() – #52713

Script Loader

Escape HTML5 boolean attribute names – #52894

TaxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies.

Use a consistent check for the $rewrite['hierarchical'] parameter – #52882

Props

Thanks to the 41 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week:

@SergeyBiryukov (7), @sabernhardt (5), @audrasjb (5), @jrf (3), @hellofromTonya (2), @mukesh27 (2), @ryelle (2), @johnbillion (2), @dd32 (2), @xknown (2), @whyisjake (2), @Mamaduka (1), @grapplerulrich (1), @Tkama (1), @davidbaumwald (1), @flixos90 (1), @jaymanpandya (1), @Cybr (1), @paaljoachim (1), @palmiak (1), @joyously (1), @BrechtVds (1), @goaroundagain (1), @TimothyBlynJacobs (1), @sumitsingh (1), @akabarikalpesh (1), @tmatsuur (1), @hareesh-pillai (1), @kaavyaiyer (1), @jillebehm (1), @pavelvisualcomposer (1), @terriann (1), @RogerTheriault (1), @rinatkhaziev (1), @peterwilsoncc (1), @Mista-Flo (1), @hellofromtonya (1), @azaozz (1), @desrosj (1), @isabel_brison (1), and @matveb (1).

Please welcome our 5 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 ♥️
@BrechtVds, @sumitsingh, @kaavyaiyer, @jillebehm, and @pavelvisualcomposer.

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (9), @desrosj (8), @peterwilsoncc (6), @davidbaumwald (4), @gziolo (2), and @ryelle (1).

#5-7-1, #5-8, #week-in-core

Jb Audras 11:26 am on March 25, 2021
Tags: 5.7.1 ( 7 ), 5.8, dev chat ( 427 ), docs ( 4 ), summaries ( 36 ), summary ( 397 )

Dev Chat meeting Summary – March 24, 2021

This is the weekly meetings summary of the WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team. The facilitator for this week’s chats was @peterwilsoncc at 05:00 UTC and @audrasjb at 20:00 UTC. Here is the meeting agenda.

Link to 05:00 UTC devchat meeting on the core channel on Slack

Link to 20:00 UTC devchat meeting on the core channel on Slack

Announcements & News

A Week in Core – March 22, 2021
Please note that starting this week, all the commit messages are now counted in the Week in Core posts. Previously it only took into account commits containing an explicit “props” mention.
What’s new in Gutenberg 10.2 ? – March 17, 2021
Core Editor Improvement: Performance Matters – March 23, 2021

There is also a couple items on the Make/Core blogblog (versus network, site) that require feedback:

Upcoming WordPress Releases

WordPress 5.7.1

In line with the trial for consistent minor release leads for each major branch, all the 5.7.x point releases will be led by @peterwilsoncc, with @audrasjb as deputy.

Here is the expected 5.7.1 release schedule:

Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta).: Wednesday 7 April, 2021 around 23:00 UTC
Final release: Wednesday 14 April, 2021 around 23:00 UTC

For now, there are 26 tickets in the milestone.
11 of them are closed as fixed, or reopened for backportbackport A port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch. operations.

@audrasjb plan to run a 5.7.1 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 on Thursday March 25, 2021 at 22:00 UTC. Everyone is welcome to attend.

WordPress 5.8

@chanthaboune shared some news about WordPress 5.8: @francina started to compile the planning round up and will publish it soon. @lukecarbis, @boniu91 and @hellofromtonya also compiled an early 5.8 bug scrub schedule, and published it right after the devchat.

Component maintainers updates

General (@sergeybiryukov): Work has continued on further fixing jQuery deprecations in WordPress core. See ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #51812 for more details.

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. (@sergeybiryukov): The list of translations for selecting a timezone in General Settings was updated to add two new timezones and remove some older duplicates. See ticket #52861 for more details.

Build/Test Tools (@sergeybiryukov): no major news this week.

Date/Time (@sergeybiryukov): no major news this week.

Permalinks (@sergeybiryukov): no major news this week.

Themes (@williampatton): the component has had quite a lot of eyes recently but extra help would be appreciated.

Site Health (@clorith): the component has one ticket for 5.7.1, it’s got a proposed solution and feedback. Everyone is welcome to contribute.

Upgrade/Install (@audrasjb): no major news this week.

Menus / Widgets: @audrasjb started to silently scrub both of their awaiting review tickets, in order to prepare 5.8 effort.

Toolbar (@sabernhardt): there is a Toolbar component triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. scheduled on Thursday March 25, 2021 at 15:00 UTC. Also, the Core team nominated @sabernhardt as Toolbar component maintainer and he accepted.

Open floor

@isabel_brison requested some feedback on an overview ticket for adding end-to-end tests to WordPress Core.
The ticket contains suggestions for how to test most of the pages in the WordPress dashboard but requested some feedback on how to, or whether to, test certain pages.

@francina provided a document produced by her colleagues at Yoast recently. These are now available on the ticket.

@clorith started a discussion on more frequently merging updates from 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 in to Core. Highlighting that this would make testing future releases of WordPress features easier without keeping track of which features will remain in the plugin for the time being. There was general support for the idea. @chanthaboune is offered her help to move this forward.

@estelaris requested assistance for the Docs team in reviewing end user documentation. Particularly some of the more technical details. Anyone wishing to offer assistance can get in touch via the #docs channel in 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/. or by messaging @estelaris directly.

@peterwilsoncc requested some highlighted the workflow report for the 5.7.1 release due in April. For contributors wishing to write code and see it released quickly, Peter recommend they review tickets on the “needs 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.” section of the report. Contributors wishing to test or review suggested code can review tickets on the “has patch/needs testing” section of the report.

@webcommsat requested people share two items with the marketing team via shared documents:

Thanks @peterwilsoncc for his help to compile the meetings notes.

#5-7-1, #5-8, #dev-chat, #summaries, #summary

Luke Carbis 9:17 pm on March 24, 2021
Tags: 5.8, bug scrub ( 65 )

Early Bug Schedule for 5.8

As we begin to kick off work on 5.8, it’s time to schedule some early 5.8 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 sessions.

These scrubs will happen twice a week. For the most part, they’re scheduled for Tuesdays at 6:00 UTC for APAC timezones and 19:00 UTC for US / EU, though there are some adjustments to accommodate religious and national holidays.

Right now, we’re only including Early Scrubs. A release schedule for Alpha, 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., and Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). scrubs will follow soon.

Early Scrubs:

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

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

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 5.8 scheduled bug 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, starting April 2.

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 (@lukecarbis) 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.

Where can you find tickets to scrub?

Report 5 provides a list of all open 5.8 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 5.8 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 (@lukecarbis) on slack.

#5-8, #bug-scrub

Jb Audras 10:00 pm on March 22, 2021
Tags: 5.7.1 ( 7 ), 5.8, week in core ( 111 )

A Week in Core – March 22, 2021

24 commits
21 contributors
92 tickets created
7 tickets reopened
85 tickets closed

Code changes

Administration

Make focus states consistent in adminadmin (and super admin) menu when collapsed – #32579

Build/Test Tools

Update some devDependencies – #52624
Revert [50540] – #52843
Remove explicit puppeteer dependency – #52843
Move the get_current_commenter() method next to the test it’s used in – #52625
Correct some newly introduced @covers tags – #39265

Coding Standards

Move some translator comments to the correct place – #52627
Add missing semicolon to some endif keywords – #52627
Use strict comparison for return type checks in a few functions – #52627
Use strict comparison in wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader.php – #52627
Add a space before / character in some self-closing HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. tags – #52870
Use strict comparison for JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. fragment in some admin files – #52845, #41988

Documentation

Fix typo in pre_term_link 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. description – #52628
Correct formatting for the description of some register_post_type() parameters – #52836

Emoji

Update the Twemoji library to version 13.0.2 – #52852

External libraries

Update generated script loader version hashes – #52850
Further fix jQuery deprecations in WordPress core – #51812
Update the jQuery Form library – #52685
Update Clipboard.js library to version `2.0.8` – #52850
Update jQuery Color library to version `2.2.0` – #51405

Internationalization

Update list of continents and cities for the timezone selection – #52861
Remove duplicate entries from the list of continents and cities – #52861

Media

Pass the appropriate reference into wp_getimagesize – #52826

Pointers

Make pointer border darker to match arrow tip – #52670

Props

Thanks to the 21 people who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week:

@SergeyBiryukov (2), @laxman-prajapati (1), @Bueltge (1), @audrasjb (1), @isabel_brison (1), @rnaby (1), @nayanchamp7 (1), @desrosj (1), @hareesh-pillai (1), @Clorith (1), @melchoyce (1), @afercia (1), @wangql (1), @johnjamesjacoby (1), @whyisjake (1), @rinatkhaziev (1), @hellofromTonya (1), @Mista-Flo (1), @terriann (1), @mukesh27 (1), and @jrf (1).

Please join me to welcome our 2 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 ♥️
@nayanchamp7 and @wangql

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (13), @desrosj (7), @ryelle (2), @whyisjake (1), and @peterwilsoncc (1).

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