Dev Chat agenda for 15 December 2021

Announcements

The WordPress 5.9 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. 3 has landed, after a lot of very hard work by a lot of very dedicated contributors. Please download and test! 

Note: This beta focused on the bugs that showed up since Beta 2. Now, work pivots to hunting for brand-new bugs.

Did you get a chance to watch the State of Word yesterday? If not, check it out.

Blogblog (versus network, site) posts of note

Since Beta 2, 14 bugs reported by contributors and needs testing. If you can help, please report your findings on the announcement post.

The Editor Chat Summary highlights improvements made by the team.

What’s new in Gutenberg 12.1?

@audrasjb has the latest issue of A Week in Core.

And remember that the release schedule has been revised.

Got other posts that should get the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team’s attention? Please add them in the comments.

Upcoming releases

The current upcoming 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. is version 5.9. Beta 4 (scheduled for 21 December) which is optional and the team will discuss whether it will happen.

If we skip Beta 4, we will be start the new year with version 5.9 RC1 set to release on 4th January.

Component Maintainers

From now until launch, devchat will skip a formal check-in so the group can have a longer Open Floor. If you’re a maintainer who’d like to get help with a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release. or share success, add your item to the comments.

Open Floor

Add your topic to the comments, and enjoy priority for your topic at the beginning of Open Floor.

See you Wednesday at 20:00 UTC!

#agenda#core#dev-chat

#agenda#dev-chat

#agenda, #core, #dev-chat, #week-in-core

Editor Chat Agenda: 15 December 2021

Facilitator and notetaker: @andraganescu

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, December 15 2021, 03:00 PM GMT+1.

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/ 12.2 RC
  • What’s new in Gutenberg 12.1 ( 8 December)
  • WordPress 5.9
    • revised release schedule.
    • 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. 3 release 14 December.
    • “Must Haves” review – what’s left?
  • Updates based on updated scope for site editing projects:
    • Navigation 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..
    • Template editor.
    • Patterns.
    • Styling.
    • Mobile Team.
    • Components Team.
  • Task Coordination.
  • Open Floor.

If you are not able to attend the meeting, you are encouraged to share anything relevant for the discussion:

  • If you have an update for the main site editing projects, please feel free to share as a comment or come prepared for the meeting itself.
  • 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

Performance Chat Agenda: December 14, 2021

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting to occur on December 14, 2021, at 16:00 UTC.

  • Focus group projects discussion
  • Performance features development coordination
  • Open Floor

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

#agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

Dev chat agenda for December 8, 2021

Announcements

The WordPress 5.9 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. 2 has landed, after a lot of very hard work by a lot of very dedicated contributors. Please download and test! Also, in the beta period, work pivots to focus only on bugs that have shown up since feature freeze on November 9.

Blogblog (versus network, site) posts of note

WordPress 5.9 Beta 2 fixed 24 bugs reported by contributors and needs testing. If you can help, please report your findings on the announcement post.

The Editor Chat Summary highlights improvements made by the team.

Gutenberg 12.1 RC1 was released.

@audrasjb has the latest issue of A Week in Core.

And remember that the release schedule has been revised.

Got other posts that should get the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team’s attention? Please add them in the comments.

Upcoming releases

The current upcoming 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. is version 5.9. Beta 2 was launched and Beta 3 is scheduled for 14 December. So far, 305 tickets were fixed and more bugs should arise with testing.

Component Maintainers

If you maintain a component and need help with beta fixes or other blockers as the 5.9 release moves forward, please plan to join the chat and update the group.

Open Floor

Add your topic to the comments, and enjoy priority for your topic at the beginning of Open Floor.

See you Wednesday at 20:00 UTC!

#agenda#core#dev-chat

#agenda, #dev-chat

Editor Chat Agenda: 8 December 2021

Facilitator and notetaker: @fabiankaegy

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, December 8 2021, 03:00 PM CET.

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/..

If you are not able to attend the meeting, you are encouraged to share anything relevant for the discussion:

  • If you have an update for the main site editing projects, please feel free to share as a comment or come prepared for the meeting itself.
  • 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

Performance Chat Agenda: December 7, 2021

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting to occur on December 7, 2021, at 16:00 UTC.

Focus group projects discussion

  • Progress check for the Object Caching group
  • Progress check for the JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. group

Performance features development coordination

  • A couple of PRs have been merged in the performance 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 repository:
  • There are also some PRs that require attention:

Open Floor

Blackfire and Platform.sh are willing to support the WordPress Performance team initiative (see 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/. discussion here). What are your thoughts about this?


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

#agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

Dev chat agenda for December 1, 2021

Announcements

The WordPress 5.9 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 has landed, after a lot of very hard work by a lot of very dedicated contributors. Please download and test! Also, in the beta period, work pivots to focus only on bugs that have shown up since feature freeze on November 8.

WordPress 5.8.2 is also live, and you should update. Minor releases usually fix bugs and 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. vulnerabilities.

Blogblog (versus network, site) posts of note

@annezazu has published this guide to testing the FSE features.

This Editor Chat Summary from @get_dave is a good place to find the latest on 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.

@audrasjb has the latest issue of A Week in Core.

And remember that we’re on a revised release schedule.

Got other posts that should get the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team’s attention? Please add them in the comments.

Upcoming releases

The current release is version 5.9, and we are now in beta. There is much to discuss.

Component Maintainers

If you maintain a component and need help with beta fixes or other blockers as the 5.9 release moves forward, please plan to join the chat and update the group.

Open Floor

Add your topic to the comments, and enjoy priority for your topic at the beginning of Open Floor.

See you Wednesday at 20:00 UTC!

#agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Editor Chat Agenda: 1 December 2021

Facilitator and notetaker: @jorgefilipecosta

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, December 1 2021, 03:00 PM GMT+1.

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/..

If you are not able to attend the meeting, you are encouraged to share anything relevant for the discussion:

  • If you have an update for the main site editing projects, please feel free to share as a comment or come prepared for the meeting itself.
  • 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

Performance Chat Agenda: November 30, 2021

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting to occur on November 30, 2021, at 16:00 UTC.

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

#agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

Dev Chat Agenda for November 24, 2021

Here is the agenda for this week’s developer meeting to occur on November 24, 2021, at 20:00 UTC.

Please note that depending on your timezone, the time may have changed with the end of daylight saving time.

Blogblog (versus network, site) Post Highlights and announcements

Bringing to your attention some interesting reads and some call for feedback and/or volunteers:

Have you been working on 5.9 related issues? Let everyone know!

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 the usual agenda items 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.

#5-9, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat