Devchat Agenda for May 13

Welcome!

The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found 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.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.

Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.

Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

Here’s the agenda for tomorrow’s Dev Chat in the #core channel on Slack.

Time/Date: May 13 2015 20:00 UTC:

Feature Updates
1. Editor – @azaozz / @iseulde
2. Adminadmin (and super admin) UIUI User interface – @helen
3. Multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site Admin UI – @jeremyfelt (if available)
4. Partial Refresh – @westonruter
5. Menu CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. – @celloexpressions / @westonruter / @voldemortensen
6. Passwords – @markjaquith
Component Updates
1. 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) – @joedolson
2. Build tools – @jorbin
Site Icon feature proposal – @obenland
Open Floor – Looking for dev feedback on a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.? Use this part of the meeting to let us know!

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