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Andrei Draganescu 7:47 pm on December 15, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 15 December, 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, December 15 2021, 03:00 PM CET in Slack. Moderated by @andraganescu.

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 releases:

Gutenberg 12.2 RC is released. @priethor shared the following:

  • Testing and providing feedback on the client-side routing changes to the Template List is encouraged, as it was an improtant 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. to WP5.9 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.
  • Panel Color Gradient Settings have been changed to use dropdowns but, due to Beta 3 being already out, it will not be backported to beta unless feedback from testing comes very positive. So please test and provide feedback, too!

What’s new in Gutenberg 12.1 ( 8 December) was shared again.

WordPress 5.9

WordPress 5.9 Beta 3 was released on December 14th.

There will be a 5.9 Beta 4 next week.

The WordPress 5.9 must haves board needs your help for new PRs and code review!

@mkaz shared that our goal is to have Dev Notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. written and published by Jan 4. Let’s still aim for that, but we all know it’s been more features and 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 during beta so might be delayed some. The project board for WP 5.9 documentation is at: https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/11/

You can get an overview of how to help test WordPress 5.9 Features in this helpful post: https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/11/30/help-test-wordpress-5-9-features/

Key project updates

Based on the scope for Site Editing projects.

@getdave

Mobile:

@mattchowning

Fixes:

  • Fixed alignment of multi-line block names in the inserter

In Progress:

  • Fixing last issues blocking upgrade to ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. Native v0.66
  • GSS Font size, line height and selected text color
  • Improving reliability of the mobile translations pipeline

Components Package

@Marco Ciampini

 Fixes:

 In Progress:

  • We’re exploring approaches for maintaining focus and integrating with browser history when using components like Navigator (used, for example, in the 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.). Some additional discussion is available on a related issue.
  • There are a number of open PRs being discussed involving more consistent support for size variants across components, including CustomSelectControl, FontSizePicker, and LineHeightControl.

Task Coordination:

Note: Anyone reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment in the post summary, if you can/want to help with something.

@santosguillamot

  • There is still some work going on related to the Comments blocks, mainly focused on two areas:
  1. The wrapper blocks (Comment Template Issue & Comments Query Loop Issue).
  2. Pagination.
  • For more information about all the Pull Requests, I tried to sum up the current state in this GitHub comment a couple of days ago.

@antonvlashenko

  • working on releasing the Gutenberg 12.2 RC 1 today.
  • working on backporting these changes to the Gutenberg plugin before the stable release.

@mamaduka

  • I’m planning reviews of WP 5.9 Must-Have PRs for the next two days. Feel free to 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 if your PR is on the project board or should be there.
  • Also planing to watch State of The WordState of the Word This is the annual report given by Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress at WordCamp US. It looks at what we’ve done, what we’re doing, and the future of WordPress. https://wordpress.tv/tag/state-of-the-word/.

@mciampini

  • planning on wrapping up current work on Navigator focus restoration and other minor PRs, 

Open Floor:

@manooweb

Is it interesting and possible to make a package only for this part: fixtures/blocks and so make it sharable easily?

@gziolo

  • We had them included in the @wordpress/e2e-tests package at some point.
  • We can put them in their own package if that is something other projects want to play with.
  • Those files ould also be consumed directly from 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.
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Justin Ahinon 1:20 pm on December 15, 2021
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Performance team meeting summary – December, 14 2021

This is the agenda for the meeting. You can read the logs here on Slack.

Focus groups updates

Images

If you want to have an overview of the work being done for this focus, this GitHub project is the right place to look at.

The Images focus group has had some interesting updates in the last few days. @adamsilverstein shared some of them.

First @mikeschroder is working on this issue about determining the best quality level to use when compressing images in newer formats like WebP. On this topic, @mihai2u mentionned that there could be a second approach to compress 2x+ retina images. Read the full comment here, and feel free to add your ideas as well.

Another good new for the Images focus, this module by @adamsilverstein has recently been merged into 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. When enabled, uploaded JPEG images are saved as WebP sub-sizes. Please feel free to test it and add your feedbacks in the PR comments. Complete testing instructions will follow soon.

There was also an interesting discussion about using the <source> markup to serve images in WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and the potential plan to support the avif format. Find the entire discussion here 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/..

Site Health

@furi3r is working on porting the work done by @audrasjb to a performance module. Follow this issue for updates about the progress.

Object caching

As for the Object caching focus, @spacedmonkey has done some work on this pull request about some enhancements to the cache 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. component. Feel free to leave a review on the pull request of the related ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker..

Measurement

@wp-source has on schedule to create the issues for the focus group in the following days. Keep an eye on the performance plugin repository to know when these go live.

@josephscott announced that the folks at WebPageTest.org have donated to the performance team an API key that is good for 1,000 tests per month. There have been also some progress for the Blackfire and Platform.sh accounts for the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ project; and we can expect start using them soon.

Here are also the log on Slack for a discussion about defining what a minimal viable performant environment looks like.

#core-media, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

Fabian Kägy 4:15 pm on December 13, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 8 December, 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, December 8 2021, 03:00 PM CET in Slack. Moderated by @fabiankaegy.

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 releases:

Gutenberg 12.1 was released.

What’s new in Gutenberg 12.1.0.

Parts of 12.0 and 12.1 were backported into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and will be part of WP 5.9.

WordPress 5.9

Beta 2 was released on December 7.
You can get an overview of how to help test WordPress 5.9 Features in this helpful post: https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/11/30/help-test-wordpress-5-9-features/

@noisysocks shared the following update:

@mkaz shared that there are lots of Dev Notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. that need writing here: https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/11/

Key project updates

Based on the scope for Site Editing projects.

Template Editor

@paaljoachim & @mamaduka

Global Styles

@jorgefilipecosta

  • We are working on a redesign of how colors appear 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. inspector https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/37067 To make the UIUI User interface simpler and less poluted

Mobile:

@Antonis Lilis

Fixes:

  • Fixed parsing issues on generating the JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. bundle by using a newer version of the WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ command

Finalizing:

  • Upgrade to ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. Native v0.66.
  • GSS Font size, line height and selected text color

Components Package

@Marco Ciampini

Shipping:

  • Some design polish was applied to both ColorIndicator and ItemGroup, which are both used extensively in the new 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..

Fixes:

In Progress:

  • We’re exploring approaches for maintaining focus when using components like Navigator (used, for example, in the Styles sidebar). 
  • We’re updating the LineHeightControl used in typography tools to use NumberControl internally instead of TextControl, which should provide more consistent styles and behavior.
  • There are a number of open PRs being discussed involving more consistent support for size variants across components, including CustomSelectControl, FontSizePicker, and LineHeightControl.

Task Coordination:

Note: Anyone reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment in the post summary, if you can/want to help with something.

@mamaduka

  • I’m primarily focused on Site Editor bug fixes and remaining items from WP 5.9 Must-Have list.
  • Trying to help with PR reviews.
  • Currently trying to track down cause of the two issues (probably related) with Template Parts.

@veminom

If someone would like to help me with a review on this one, I’d be grateful! 
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/35616
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/36864

@paaljoachim

I am been testing WP 5.9 and will continue with testing.
Giving feedback to various Template Editor PRs.
I worry a bit about not having Custom templates included in WP 5.9, as it can create some confusion that one is not able to add a template.
I also think about the Preview control drop down in the Post Editor and Site Editor. These are too similar but not identical. We need a better diffraction between the two.

@jorgefilipecosta

My main priority is finishing the color UI redesign and address some of the issues we found during the process.

Open Floor:

@paaljoachim

I am wondering if we still have time to get Custom Templates into WP 5.9?

This discussion was continued here: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/36860#issuecomment-987189021

@welcher

Just wondering if 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. schema is still open for PRs. I have noticed that the appearanceTools is marked as a valid option but when added, triggers an error  – I need to open a ticket about it still

@mkaz and @oandregal chimed in here and deemed this to be a documentation change which is still ok to merge

@veminom

I was wondering if this could be considered for WP 5.9?
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/35616
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/36864

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Justin Ahinon 6:05 am on December 9, 2021
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Performance team meeting summary – December, 7 2021

This is the agenda for the meeting. You can read the logs here on Slack.

Focus group projects discussion

Site Health

This is an asynchronous update about the progress for the Site Health group, shared by @audrasjb:

  • The existing and future Site Health checks will be moved to the Performance mono repo
  • We received some feedback, the idea is to create issues to discuss them on 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/
  • @audrasjb will be available to work on this after 5.9 second 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.

@furi3r also offered to bring the work done here in a module, on 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.

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/.

There has been no major progress for this group since the last discussions. Hopefully we will see more after the 5.9 release.

Images

@adamsilverstein shared that the team is continuing the Asia/Pacific timezone friendly meetings Thursdays at +02:00 UTC. They’ve started work on some initial tickets related to WebP: creating an initial module for WebP on Uploads, and researching optimal compression/quality settings for WebP (and eventually AVIF) images in this issue.

About this top, @blogaid expresses some serious concerns they have about creating WebP on uploads. This is being discussed in this issue. Please leave a comment there if you have an opinion about this.

Object Caching

@tillkruess migrated the POC document for this group to a dedicated project on the GitHub repository. In addition to that, more details were added on the issues, based on the feedbacks of the focus group members.

Measurement

We have discussed the offer to use Platform.sh and Blackfire for being able to run automated performance tests against pulls requests and branches. Discussions on this are happening on this issue.

There is also a suggestion by @wp-source to use Lighthouse CI and CrUX to make synthetic tests on PRs. You can read the discussions about this proposal here 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/.. See also this issue about creating a standard VM for performance testing of WordPress.

Open Floor

@tweetythierry proposed a discussion topic for the next meeting. About how we could improve the theme checker (and introduce a plugin check) with some performance “warning”. It could start simple by warning about enqueueing best practice or checking the number of assets enqueued and their sizes.

#core-media, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

Paal Joachim Romdahl 7:42 am on December 7, 2021
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Editor chat summary: 1 December, 2021

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, December 1 2021, 03:00 PM GMT+1 in Slack. Moderated by @jorgefilipecosta.

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 releases

What’s new in Gutenberg 12.0.0.
Gutenberg 12.1 RC1 released.
Parts of 12.0 and 12.1 were backported into coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and will be part of WP 5.9.

WordPress 5.9

Beta 1 was released 30 November.
Help is needed: tracking issue for development notes for WP 5.9. Contact @mkaz if you have any questions about writing a development note.
Check out the various issues on the WordPress 5.9 Must-Haves project board.

Key project updates

Based on the scope for Site Editing projects.

Template Editor

@paaljoachim

@get_dave

  • All of the “Must Have” items for Nav block were merged in time for WP 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.
  • We now switch focus to resolving the [Type] Bug issues.
  • Please do pop into #feature-navigation-block-editor on Core 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 have a question or wish to contribute.
  • Feel free to raise an Issue to report a 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.. Be sure to label it with the Block: Navigation label.
  • Navigation Block Tracking issue.

Global Styling

@jorgefilipecosta

  • It is now possible to edit all the default, theme and user color palettes.
  • Edit gradient palette.
  • Transparency color support on all global style elements.
  • Multiple UIUI User interface enhancements. E.g. color picker positioning mechanism, border, margins etc.
  • Bug fixed: when applying some presets by value instead of slug (class or var).
  • Added opt-in mechanism so themes can provide palettes and completely disable the default palettes.
  • Themes now has a flag that allows future design tools to be enabled by default. This will allow an user of the specific theme to take advantage of future enhancements without needing to update the theme.

Patterns

@jorgefilipecosta

Automatically load patterns located in the theme’s /patterns subdirectory. It would simplify the registration of the pattern as one would not need to call any function to register a pattern.

Mobile Team

@Antonis Lilis

  • Shipped:
    Turned on auto-migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. of v1 Gallery blocks to v2 format when edited
  • Fixed:
    An issue where the font size value did not update
    An issue with the preformatted block background color
    RN iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. E2E tests failure related to environment not available
    An iOS scroll update issue when typing in RichText component
    Undo/redo functionality in links when applying text format
  • Other:
    Updated configuration to use tarball instead of git tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) for reactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/.-native-editor forked dependencies
  • In Progress:
    Upgrade to React Native v0.66.
    Finalizing GSS Font size, line height and selected text colors.

Components Team

@mciampini

  • Shipped:
    We merged a new ConfirmDialog component intended to serve as a replacement for the editor’s current uses of the native confirm function, providing a more cohesive UI and addressing some browser compatibility concerns.
  • Fixed:
    The DateTimePicker component now correctly handles values for hours when “PM” is selected in the component’s is12Hour mode.
  • In Progress:
    We’re working on improved and more consistent support for larger variations of several input components used in the typography panel. These variations are mostly implemented with custom style overrides currently, and we’d like to provide a more declarative and consistent 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. for them.

Task Coordination

@paaljoachim

There were no other tasks shared during the Task Coordination.

Open Floor

@Fabio Blanco

Fabio is trying to follow and learn about Gutenberg development.

@jorgefilipecosta

For code contributions.
Block Editor Handbook: Getting Started With Code Contribution
After setup is ready feel free to fix some Gutenberg issues. Ask in the #core-editor channel on Slack if you need any help.

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

Justin Ahinon 7:15 am on December 1, 2021
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Performance team meeting summary – November, 30 2021

This is the agenda for the meeting. You can read the logs here on Slack.

Focus groups updates

Images

@adamsilverstein gave a great update on the progress of the focus. First, all issues and ideas related to focus will be tracked in this GitHub project. This will facilitate asynchronous contributions and discussions. The top priority issue on the project is this one, for creating a WebP module, and port the code to the repository.

On top of that, the focus meeting last Thursday was a success and the team is planning to hold a next one. Keep an eye on the Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blogblog (versus network, site) and the #core-media 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/. to keep up with the agenda.

There were also several discussions about the main projects of the focus: WebP by default in WordPress Core and the migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. of existing images into the WebP format. Here are the links to the discussion pieces on Slack:

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/.

Since most of the people in this focus are deeply involved in the next release, there are no major updates at the moment.

Measurement

For this focus, there were some discussions about starting a dedicated side conversation (see thread). Currently, the team is still thinking about the best form for this conversation, chat or video call. If you have any opinions, feel free to leave a comment in the thread linked above or on this post.

Performance features development coordination

There is currently this issue on 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 regarding the code infrastructure of the performance modules. This step is very important to move forward, so feel free to leave a comment or feedback on the issue.

Open Floor

Jérôme Vieilledent (@lolautruche on Slack) mentioned before the meeting that Blackfire and Platform.sh are willing to support the WordPress Performance team initiative. Blackfire might be interested in donating an account to the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ organization for the team’s purposes. See Slack discussion here.

#meeting, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

David Smith 9:01 am on November 30, 2021
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Editor Chat Summary: 24th November 2021

This post summarises the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on 2021-11-24 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 releases

  • Gutenberg 12.0.0 was released (after the meeting) – thanks to @welcher for leading this one.
  • Highlights post will be released on Make blogblog (versus network, site) soon.

WordPress 5.9 status updates

Updates based on the scope for Site Editing projects

Updates were requested for the key projects:

Native Mobile Team

@antonisme provided the update:

Shipped

  • Added Clipboard Link Suggestion to Image 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. and Buttons block
  • Added auto opening of media upload options to new Gallery block

Fixes:

  • Only set font sizes for block based themes
  • Reverted erroneous native editor package version bumps

In Progress:

  • Upgrade to ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. Native v0.66.
  • Finalizing GSS Font size, line height and selected text colors.

@get_dave provided the update:

Components Packages

@mciampini provided an update:

Shipped

  • ToolsPanel has an improved README and Storybook stories illustrating its usage. This component is used to group related 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. controls, grouping them and providing a standard UIUI User interface for showing and hiding them. 
  • We’ve added an example for adding a chevron icon in the Item component for certain types of navigation used in Styles. 

Fixes:

  • The ZStack component’s offset prop now supports RTL languages properly.

In Progress:

Templates

@annezazu stepped in to provide an update based on her recent knowledge:

Task Coordination

The following items were shared by folks to update us on what work is in progress or where help is needed:

@annezazu:

  • Update on my end — lots of testing/triaging for 5.9 in GitHub, helped ship the recent /News post highlighting a 5.9 video a crew of us worked on.
  • Continued amplifying & responding to the latest FSE outreach call for testing.
  • Shared some personal thoughts on why I voted to delay 5.9, and nearly done with draft of Styles user doc (needed for the welcome guide).
  • After this next week, I’ll have far more time to focus on documentation and testing efforts so plan to continue to shift attention there (have a presentation due this week about 5.9).

@get_dave:

@zieladam:

  • I’m helping with making the navigation block ready.
  • Right now working on giving new menus a name in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/36760.
  • I just noticed a few bugs stemming from the complexity, so I want to follow-up with a 2-in-1 PR: simplification and bugfixes.

Open Floor

Get involved in the latest call for testing

  • Alan Smodic asked for some insight or guidance on some issues that he and his team have flagged and added comments to. Wondering if these have ever been talked about before or how best we can help to potentially solve.
  • Publish datepicker time zone is server time instead of user time: #29306.
  • DateTimePicker Time Zone Selection: #31522.
  • Timepicker time resets when using AM/PM toggle: #29720.
  • @get_dave suggested getting @talldanwp to triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. in the bi-weekly triage meetings.
  • @talldanwp suggested following up post 5.9.
  • @mciampini said he will flag it to the rest of the components folks,

Normalize Github labels to a single “[Type] Documentation” label

  • @mkaz informed us that there is a label in GitHub for “developer docs”, which is intended for issues specific to the developer documentation site.
  • He’s not sure the distinction is necessary and the additional label is confusing, as many docs are being labeled with one of the two labels.
  • Marcus proposed we remove the “developer docs” label and make sure any issues and PRs that have that label also have the “[Type] Documentation” label.
  • Folks in the meeting agreed with this proposal.

Call for input: can we run DB upgrade scripts as part of Gutenberg upgrade process?

  • @get_dave raised this Issue whereby meta tags were added to the post content on “Paste”.
  • The coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. issue has now been fixed but contributors are asking whether Gutenberg can add a one time operation on upgrade which runs a DB cleanup operation on all posts to remove this erroneous tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.).
  • I’d like to understand whether there is any prior art for achieving such a thing in Gutenberg – any input from @youknowriad or other Core folks would be appreciated.

Wrap up

Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting!

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #summary

Dan Farrow 3:38 pm on November 25, 2021
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CSS Chat Summary: 18 November 2021

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

Announcements & housekeeping

  • The next meeting will be on Thursday 25 November at 17:00 UTC. Please add your name to the Meeting Facilitator schedule document if you would like to contribute by facilitating this or any future meetings
  • @notlaura suggested breaking for holidays after December 16th and starting up again January 6th 2022
  • @khoipro pointed out that the new meeting time is midnight in APAC which led to a short discussion about meeting times. The conclusion was that we can revisit the meeting time again in the future

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Custom Properties (#49930)

Thanks everybody!

#core-css, #summary

Tonya Mork 9:19 pm on November 24, 2021
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Dev Chat Summary for November 24, 2021

@hellofromTonya led the weekly meeting at 20:00 UTC. Here is the meeting agenda.

Link to this <devchat> in #core on 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/..

Notable News and blogblog (versus network, site) posts

Team Reps

  • @marybaum will be a new Core Team Rep for 2022.
  • Thanks to @francina for serving in this role!
  • @audrasjb will continue in this role until another team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. is found.

Interested in being a Core Team Rep? Reach out to @audrasjb.

WordPress 5.9

  • @jeffpaul asked if there are any 5.9 blockers that are in specific need of help and asked what type of help they need (engineering, design, testing, etc).
  • @hellofromTonya posted an update on 5.9 blockers and scheduling. Design help is needed for Global styles & Design tools.
  • There is an open Call for Testing for Safari.
  • Everyone is invited to help wherever possible.
  • The release squad is keeping a daily close eye on progress, needs, and any blockers that might surface. Discussions and updates are centralized in the #5-9-release-leads channel on Slack.

Component Team Updates

Build/Test Tools

@sergeybiryukov gave an update:

  • Dependabot scanning is now configured for 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. This eliminates the need to manually check all GitHub Actions used within workflow files for updates. See ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #54503 for more details.
  • NodeJS is pinned to the 14.x version in the .nvmrc file to ensure contributors are able to contribute without issue until compatibility with version 16.x can be confirmed in both trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision. and 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/ repository on GitHub. See ticket #54502 for more details.
  • Some PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher warnings from stdClass::__invoke() callback mocks were fixed in 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. See ticket #53844 for more details.
  • The timeout for GitHub Actions jobs was lowered so runaway or stalled processes don’t risk running for the default timeout duration of six hours. See ticket #53363 for more details.

@sergeybiryukov shared: No major news this week

Open Floor

  • @afragen asked for feedback on the Plugin Dependencies project for WordPress 6.0. Reach out to @peterwilsoncc if you wish to have editing access.
  • @jeffpaul asked how we are progressing on the Pre Beta 1 tasks and asked if there are any items that need help.
  • @hellofromTonya replied that there are some Dev notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. that need to be compiled and published.
  • @audrasjb has been marking tickets that need Dev notes.
  • @mkaz noted that documentation for WordPress 5.9 could use some help and posted a link to the requirements. Contributors are invited to reach out to @mkaz with any questions.
  • @jeffpaul is working on the WordPress 5.9 HelpHub page.
  • @abhanonstopnewsuk noted that the latest checks for the About and Help page were carried out on Monday November 22, 2021. The next check is on Monday November 29, 2021 at 20:30 UTC.
  • @audrasjb will be leading a 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 November 25, 2021 at 21:00 UTC. See the 5.9 Bug Scrub schedule.
  • With Thanksgiving taking place in the US on November 25, 2021, @hellofromTonya thanked the community for all contributions.

Props to @costdev for writing the devchat summary.

#5-9, #dev-chat, #summary

Justin Ahinon 9:42 am on November 24, 2021
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Performance team meeting summary – November, 23 2021

This is the agenda for the meeting. You can read the logs here on Slack.

Focus group projects discussion

Image focus

@adamsilverstein shared an update for the Image focus. The group plans to go through the ideas in this document to discuss the impact, level of difficulty, etc. and generally prioritize our work. Also, in addition to taking some time during the regular media meeting, the group members are proposing a regular second “performance image focus” meeting in a friendly timezone to APEC contributors. The first try for that meeting will be November 25, 2021, at 02:00 UTC.

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/. focus

The JavaScript focus update was shared by @gziolo. The team is still collecting ideas for issues to work on in this document. They also discussed during the last week during #core-js office hours how to bring ES Modules and Import Maps to WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. The next office hour, focused on issues prioritization is planned on next Tuesday.

Object caching focus

@spacedmonkey put together a list of related tickets he is willing to work on.

Measurement focus

@wp-source stated that the team has some interesting projects ideas. Now, there is a need for some short and regular sync chat for the focus group members to discuss this project. If you are interested in attending one of these chats, please share your interest in this thread on Slack.

Performance features development coordination

@flixos90 shared some insights about the coordination repository proposal. Here are the main outcomes of these:

  • WordPress has historically relied on feature plugins to test future WordPress core features “in the wild”. The proposal here is to follow that approach, however by creating modules in a single “performance features wrapper 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”.
  • By centralizing these efforts in 1 plugin instead of x plugins, the hope is to significantly reduce maintenance, encourage cross-collaboration between different performance efforts, and have a centralized place for any performance-related conversations.
  • For example, a central 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 could be used to open issues with new performance enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. ideas, discuss them etc, even if they don’t right away lead to a new performance module.
  • A single wrapper plugin also can help from an adoption perspective, essentially interested users can install the plugin once and then will get access to any new performance features as soon as they are added – they can then enable whatever they are interested in to try out.

There have been several discussions about where this repository should be created. The main locations being the Gutenberg repository, and under the GitHub WordPress organization.

After a vote, the repository has been created under the GitHub WordPress organization, and you can find it here.

#meeting, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary