Weekly meeting
Transcript meeting in Slack
The handbook
Things go well, we are adding new content every week on the handbook – best practices.
@mercime will help with the documentation, starting with forms.
Gutenberg 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/
There are improvements made to the keyboard navigation, specifically the inserter. This is still work in progress. The top toolbar has now arrow navigation too.
@samikeijonen requested a review for his pull requests on GitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that 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/.
Test server
Nimbus hosting sponsors our team with a dedicated server, where we can install trunk and patches using SVN Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). WordPress core and the wordpress.org released code are all centrally managed through SVN. https://subversion.apache.org/. and Git Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/.. At the moment we do not use this server much.
The question is: do we still need it and and will we use it in the near future?
After a discussion we concluded: Yes we need it and we will use it more for testing in the future. The team requests test and Rian will do the installs, mail the testers and report the results.
WCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/. 2.1 AA
Rian will write a post this week about what is new in WCAG 2.1 AA for the designers and developers.
One of the new requirements is a minimum size for the a link/button.
@afrecia added new a11y keyword target-size on Trac.
Accessibility 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) news / good reads
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