Tonya Mork 7:05 pm on December 21, 2020
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Bug Scrub Schedule for 5.7

With 5.7 officially kicked off, time to schedule the 5.7 sessions. These 5.7 specific ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. scrubs will happen each week until the final release.

Early Scrubs:

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

Alpha Scrubs:

Focus: features and enhancements.

Beta Scrubs:

Focus: issues reported from the previous beta and defects.

RC Scrubs:

Focus: issues reported from the previous RC

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

APAC-friendly scrubs will be led by @lukecarbis.

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 5.7 scheduled 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. scrubs are separate and in addition.

For your reference, here are some of the recurring sessions:

  • Design Triage: Every Tuesday 14:00 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.

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 (@hellofromtonya) 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.

Planning one that’s 5.7-focused? Awesome! We’ll add it to the schedule here. You’ll get well deserved props in the weekly Dev Chat, as well as in the #props Slack channel!

Where can you find tickets to scrub?

  • Report 5 provides a list of all open 5.7 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 5.7 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 (@hellofromtonya) on slack.

#5-7, #bug-scrub

annezazu 6:35 pm on January 15, 2021
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Justin Ahinon 4:58 pm on January 15, 2021
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Block Editor Handbook: restructuring project update (15 January)

This post is the first in a series that will be published regularly on the Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blogblog (versus network, site). The purpose of this series is to keep everyone up to date on the progress of 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 Handbook restructuring project.

Currently, we are working on improving the handbook’s homepage. The goal is to make this page a real “Getting Started” page.

Someone coming to this page should be able to have a good overview of what the block editor is all about. They should also be able to find references to how to extend the block editor, how to contribute to it, or to the documentation of its main concepts.

The issue related to the handbook homepage improvement is here and here is the corresponding pull request.

Thanks to all the contributors who helped on the project this week 👏🏻.

#block-editor, #developer-documentation

Monika Rao 5:54 am on January 15, 2021
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Test Scrub for WordPress 5.7

As part of the 5.7 release, we’ll be hosting test scrubs focused on the tickets milestoned for 5.7 on Friday, January 12, 2021 at 13:30 UTC in the #core 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/..

Following are the tickets going to be discussed in the scrub

Testing Environment

  1. Open the Terminal app
  2. Install homebrew by pasting /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" – You might be asked if you want to install the Xcode Command Line Tools, confirm.
  3. Install GitGit 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/. by typing brew install Git
  4. Install Docker by typing brew cask install Docker
  5. Install Node by typing brew install Node
  6. Open the Docker app in your computer and ignore the welcome screen that tells you to create a container
  7. Clone 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 with the wordpress-development environment by typing git clone and the URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org you get when you click on the green button on the top of the GitHub repo that says Code. Pick the HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. URL.
  8. Go to the directory where you cloned the repo (you can use cd wordpress-develop to locate it)
  9. Now type these 4 commands
    1. npm install
    2. npm run build:dev
    3. npm run env:start
    4. npm run env:install
  10. You should be able to access the development version of WordPress at http://localhost:8889/. You can access it with username admin and password password

Do you have a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. you want to bring up for testing?

Fantastic!

In order to allow testers to manually test the 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., you should include the following information:

  • What are the steps to reproduce the problem?
  • What are the steps to test?
  • Are there any testing dependencies such as a 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 or script?
  • What is the expected behavior after applying the patch?

#5-7, #test, #testing

Marcus Kazmierczak 8:27 pm on January 14, 2021
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Stale Issues in Gutenberg Repository

In the Core Editor meeting on Jan 13th, a group of us discussed the idea of implementing a “StaleBot” that will automatically close issues and PRs based on a level of inactivity (no comments or commits) after a period of time. Before implementing, it was agreed that it would help to get more thoughts and opinions to make sure this idea is set up for success. 

Please share your thoughts by Jan 29, 2021. If there are no major concerns, implementation will proceed. 

Implementation Details

Using a stale bot is a common practice among repositories, the ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. project uses the Probot Stale bot to automate, with a 90 day policy. The bot allows customization of the time, messaging, and the ability to configure a specific label to skip auto closing. This gives great flexibility to make an implementation work for us.

The current recommendation is to set our policy to a 180-day of no activity, so if no comments or commits are on an issue or PR in 180 days, then the bot will post a comment to the issue alerting the user it will be closed in 7-days due to inactivity. The proposed message:

This is an auto-generated message to let you know that this issue has gone 180 days without any activity and meets the project’s definition of stale. This will be auto-closed if there is no new activity over the next 7 days. If the issue is still relevant and active, you can simply comment with a “bump” to keep it open, or add the “[Status] Not Stale” label. Thanks for keeping our repository healthy!

Important to keep in mind, closed tickets still exist, they maintain all the same info, are searchable, and can be reopened with one click. Further, if it turns out that this change has an unexpected negative impact, this can always be removed! 

Leave Feedback

Feedback on the following by January 29, 2021 would be the most helpful: 

  • What concerns (if any) do you have about implementing this? 
  • Does 180 days of inactivity seem like the proper time threshold?
  • Does giving 7 days to respond feel like enough time? 
  • Is the message clear yet friendly enough? Would you make any changes? 

#core-editor

Lara Schenck 7:59 pm on January 14, 2021
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CSS Chat Agenda: 14 January 2021

Note: 1 hour before the meeting, we will have the bi-monthly CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. 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. triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.!

This is the agenda for the upcoming CSS meeting scheduled for Thursday, January 14, at 10:00 PM UTC. This meeting will be held in the #core-css 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 there’s any topic you’d like to discuss, please leave a comment below!

  • Housekeeping
    • Checking in on meeting format
  • Updates
    • CSS Audit (#49582)
    • Color Scheming (#49999) – Visual Regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. Testing (#49606)
  • Open floor + CSS link share

#agenda, #core-css

Dan Farrow 3:01 pm on January 14, 2021
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CSS Chat Summary: 07 January 2021

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

Housekeeping

@notlaura asked if the recurrant format of the meetings is still working and there was general agreement that yes, it is.

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Audit (#49582)

@ryelle commented that @notlaura‘s config file PR is looking good and that she has started a new PR using GitHub actions to auto-generate the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. CSS audit report.

@notlaura shared a screengrab of an issue with the report’s in-page navigation when used with config files. The full text of each property-value query is being used in the nav making it look quite unwieldy.

This led to a discussion about how property-value audit queries should be formed in order to provide useful results, and then to a recap of the end goals of the audit. The consensus was that one of the main goals is to improve consistency of CSS values, and to identify repeatable patterns which could be abstracted into design-system type naming.

@ryelle clarified that this was the thinking behind audits reporting the top 10 most & least used values.

Color Scheming (#49999) & Visual Regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. Testing (#49606)

@ryelle expressed some doubts over the benefits of the reduced colors branch. The group was quick to dispel these doubts, pointing out several ongoing benefits of the project and assuring her that it’s well worth continuing with.

Bolstered by the positivity, @ryelle said she would refresh the branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". and bring it up at the next dev chat.

Open floor & CSS link share

@ryelle put a call out for testers for patches she has contributed to these three CSS related trac tickets.

@notlaura shared a link to @q‘s 2020 proposal about a global style system, suggesting it would be cool to apply to apply such a system to WordPress adminadmin (and super admin).

And with that inspiring thought the meeting drew to a close. Thanks everyone!

#core-css, #summary

annezazu 8:16 pm on January 13, 2021
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Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 13 January 2021

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript), held in the #coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-editor 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/. channel, on Wednesday, 13 January 2021, 14:00 UTC.

WordPress 5.7

WordPress 5.7 is now underway with 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 due on 2 February 2021. You can help with this effort by jumping in on the following issues shared by @noisysocks:

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/24965
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/14744
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/24092
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/25983
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/23636

Finally, you can follow this Project board that tracks WordPress 5.7 “must-haves”. Please add issues to this board and/or reach out to (@noisysocks) if there is something you think needs to be included.

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/ 9.7 & 9.7.1

Gutenberg 9.7 & 9.7.1 were released over the last week. Highlights include drag & drop from the inserter for block patterns, updates to the reusable 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 more.

Gutenberg 9.8 RC

As a reminder, Gutenberg 9.8 RC will be released this week to allow for a 1 week RC period before the stable release next week. Please use this as a chance to test the RC!

Monthly Plan & Key Project Updates

The monthly update containing the high-level items that Gutenberg contributors are focusing on for January are:

  • Global Styles
  • Block-based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor
  • Full Site Editing

For detailed plan check out monthly priorities post.

Full Site Editing Update from @ntsekouras

Testing/feedback/review on Query Pagination block with InnerBlocks
and feedback for possible use cases of a Query Title block would be fantastic. Any thoughts and help are really appreciated!

Global Styles Update from @jorgefilipecosta

The 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. translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. mechanism was merged! There is a proposal for a save time theme.json escaping mechanism. The progress to integrate the font size picker new version advanced nicely and the PR should be merged soon.

Widgets & Navigation Update from @andraganescu

They are both back working in the main branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". after some foundational changes broke them.

Native Mobile Block Editor Update from @hypest

  • We added the ability to move blocks to top/bottom via long-pressing the block mover icons
  • Removed the info popup on start about the block editor being the new default as it’s been quite some time now that Gutenberg rolled out
  • Added block insertion E2E tests
  • Made progress on porting the Audio block

Work will continue on the audio block, the code block and prepare to work on the table block.

Help test full site editing

Today is the final day to respond to the very first call for testing for the FSE outreach program. Feedback is of course always welcomed and appreciated in 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/. Expect a post this week on Make Test summarizing the results of this first test and join #fse-outreach-experiment if you’d like to help with future calls for testing. Thank you to all who have already helped test!

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.

@ajlende

  • This PR has now been merged: WordPress/gutenberg#25171 adds srcset for cover images. Looks like there’s a few people who would appreciate it for performance reasons and it’s needed in order to add duotone to the cover block. The primary question in the PR is if it’s worth adding the polyfill for IE.
  • Would love a review for this PR: WordPress/gutenberg#27936 has some light refactoring of the custom gradient picker which also adds some inline documentation and simplifies the code for readability. It also allows me to reuse it for the duotone picker. 

@joen

@youknowriad

  • Landed the removal of the auto-drafts in Full Site Editing, an important low-level work.
  • Fixed a number of small bugs and tweaks here and there
  • A number of reviews and discussions.
  • Going forward, would like to focus a bit more on FSE, maybe the template mode in the post editor in the next days.

@ntsekouras

  • PR for Query Pagination with InnerBlocks.
  • Display matching variation icon in Block Switcher.
  • Various small 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 and reviews.

@itsjonq

  • Continue the efforts of updating our Component Systems, starting with the FontSizeControl integration.
  • Working through final details/adjustments to make sure things conventions are compatible with Gutenberg.

@annezazu

@paaljoachim

  • Triaging older issues from 2018 and 2019. As well as triaging needs design feedback issues.
  • Docs: Working on (again) improving the Local WP Development Environment setup.
  • Taking part in Learn/Training team meetings to see where Gutenberg can improve to help make things easier there.
  • Docs: Working on Improving the intro Block Editor Handbook page. Issue 27400.

Open Floor

Should we implement a “stale bot” on the GitHub Repo? Raised by @mkaz.

The full question can be seen in this comment. A stale bot essentially automatically goes through issues after X timeframe and can be programmed to share a message before handling closing out the issue/PR. By implementing some version of a stale bot to sweep through the repo, it can ideally help keep the open issues/PRs more relevant and up to date while handling out of date items. Here are key points from the discussion:

  • We’d want a long timeframe for closing. ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. uses 90 days but we’d be looking at 120+ days.
  • Important to keep in mind, closed tickets are still searchable, still exist, and still make up the archive. They don’t disappear, and can be reopened.
  • A label could be added to keep something from being auto-closed for particular items.
  • It would be important to get the messaging right in whatever comment left by the stalebot so it’s clear what action needs to be taken to keep an issue or PR open, the reasoning for such a bot, etc.
  • It’s unclear what kind of approval/agreement is needed for this change. TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. currently doesn’t have this policy but it’s unclear if that’s due to tooling limitations.

Next steps: @mkaz and @annezazu will collaborate on a Make Core post to propose this change, draft a suggestion for the messaging, and get feedback to make sure this is an okay direction to go in.

Help review a restructuring change to the Gutenberg Developer Handbook. Raised by @justinahinon.

Work is underway in this PR about Gutenberg developer handbook homepage as part of the handbook restructuring project. This PR should ideally help give a better experience with more clarity for users who first enter the handbook. The first experience matters immensely so this is a great thing to get right! Give your feedback in the PR.

What’s the best way to allow my block users to edit attributes for every display (desktop, tablet, mobile)? Raised by @louis.

Here’s an expanded version of the question for clarity:

As I understand, iframing the editor is finally coming round (really great stuff). I’ve been looking at different ways to allow my block users to edit attributes for every display (desktop, tablet and mobile), but does the Gutenberg team have an idea worked out on how these attributes will be edited responsively? And if so, is it planned for WordPress 5.7.

@joen kindly jumped in to share some great thoughts:

  • This is really tricky to get right and the team likely won’t have something for 5.7.
  • The current approach is to first and foremost build as good a responsiveness as you can, right into the block. For example, having smart defaults, like how the Media & Text block collapses when responsive.
  • Right now, you can actually hook into the preview dropdown, and leverage that to create your own responsive system right now. This is what the Layout Grid block does, feel free to look at the source there.
  • Even implementing what the Layout Grid does, the experience is still lacking: How do you edit the desktop breakpoint on a physical mobile device?  How do you customize, or add additional breakpoints? All of this is TBD.

Ideally, going forward work started in this Gutenberg issue and improvements to Global Styles can enable this to work better in the editor.

#core-editor-summary

Ebonie Butler 8:29 pm on January 12, 2021
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Dev Chat Agenda for January 13, 2020

Here is the agenda for this week’s meetings to occur at the following times: January 13, 2021 at 5:00 UTC and January 13, 2021 at 20:00 UTC.

Blogblog (versus network, site) Post Highlights

Next Releases

  • WordPress 5.6.1 (Release to be scheduled)
  • WordPress 5.7 (Upcoming 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 Release on February 2nd)

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 our standard list 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.

#5-7, #agenda, #dev-chat

Ajit Bohra 7:28 pm on January 12, 2021
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Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 6 January 2021

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript), held in the #core-editor 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/. channel, on Wednesday, January 6, 2020, 14:00 UTC.

Thank you to all of the contributors who tested the 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. releases and gave feedback. Testing for bugs is a critical part of polishing every release and a great way to contribute to WordPress.

WordPress 5.7

WordPress 5.7 is now underway with Beta 1 due on 2 February 2021. Now’s the time to be thinking about what 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/ 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 we want to ensure are in the release. Project board to track WordPress 5.7 “must-haves” is available. Please add issues to this board and/or reach out to (@noisysocks) if there is something you think needs to be included.

Gutenberg 9.6

Gutenberg 9.6 was released on 23rd december. The big focuses throughout this release cycle were Full Site Editing and Global styles. This release also includes many fixes and some nice new features and enhancements.

Gutenberg 9.7

Gutenberg 9.7 was released on 6th january. First release of 2021 🎉. A number of contributors enjoyed some well earned time off but it didn’t stop them from shipping exciting features for 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.

Monthly Plan

The monthly update containing the high-level items that Gutenberg contributors are focusing on for January are:

  • Global Styles
  • Block-based WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Editor
  • Full Site Editing

For detailed plan check out monthly priorities post.

Updates on the key projects

@jorgefilipecosta

  • On the Global Styles side, the work to include the new version of the components is ongoing. Starting with the font size picker. Our end to end tests was improved To not be as markup dependent And work with both versions of the components. There were some end-to-end tests that were legitimately failing And fixes were submitted. Besides that, the discussions on 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. translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. continued to happen. But all the feedback was applied and I think is ready to merge.
  • Another big chunk of the work saves time escaping the theme.json structure to align with what happens with other WordPress data saved in custom post types. This work is proving a little bit more complex than I anticipated. But a part should be ready very soon
  • Currently, we are blocked on an issue regarding transpiling. zustand is not being transpiled and the build is not ECMA compliment. I am not really sure how to force the transpiling of that specific lib. All the solutions I tried failed. But I have a considerable lack of babel knowledge So any help here is appreciated

@annezazu

  • The Full Site Editing Outreach program is underway with the very first call for testing
  • While you can leave feedback anytime in 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/, this call for testing will be open until January 13th.
  • If you don’t have time to test right now, no worries—another way to help would be to share the call for testing with others.
  • If interested in joining the fun in general, please :dance: your way over to #fse-outreach-experiment

@paaljoachim

  • In regards to widgets screen update Every Wednesday UTC there is a block-based widget editor chat in the #feature-widgets-block-editor
  • The first meeting after the holiday was earlier today.

@noisysocks 

  • Going through various 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. issues. A new technical method is on its way check the main issue

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.

@get_dave

@ntsekouras

  • Add block transforms preview
  • Display Block Information by matching block variations is merged. This includes the addition of a property (isActive) in Block Variation’s settings. This optional property is a function to match block variations after their creation.
  • Add new post link to Query Block.
  • I have a PR for new block ‘Archive Title’.

@itsjonq

  • I had a break in December, so I’m catching up on all the things.
  • My primary focus is to continue work on the new Component System (aka. “G2 Components”).
  • As @jorgefilipecosta had mentioned earlier, we’re working on integrating things with the ‘FontSizePicker’ component. I’ll be helping with all integration efforts on that front. We’ll then have the UIUI User interface set up to start improving the UI for Global Styles.

@priethor

I’ve just started working on this issue, my first contribution Navigation Block: Add support for a dynamic home URL

@paaljoachim

  • I am working on various documentation such as updating Setting up a Local Dev environment. I also made a video for it. How to test a PR issue. Etc.
  • Widget screen Using the Move to option. 

@youknowriad

I took the time where everyone was away as an opportunity to solve two of the long-standing issues we had:

  • Reusable blocks to use controlled inner blocks (multi-entity save flow)
  • Refactor FSE templates and template-parts to avoid auto-drafts for theme provided template files.

One is shipped and I’ll continue with the second one

@adamsilverstein

  • I’ve been working on improving the Combobox controls we added for the post author and page parent selector and could use some help/review on when someone has a chance.

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

Francesca Marano 6:39 pm on January 12, 2021  

Recap and proposal: align the WordPress release cycle with the industry standard

Following a lively conversation that happened in this blog in October 2020, here is the recap of the different ideas that were brought up and the proposal to move forward.

Rename phases

There is a consensus here.

NowChange to
Phase 1: Planning and securing team leadsPhase 1: Preliminary Planning
Phase 2: Development work beginsPhase 2: Alpha
Phase 3: 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.Phase 3: Beta (stays the same)
Phase 4: 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).Phase 4: Release Candidate (stays the same)
Phase 5: LaunchPhase 5: General release

Restructure Beta

The main point of discussion is what is allowed and what is not allowed during Beta.

Reserving Beta for testing and fixing bugs discovered by testing respects the efforts of the beta-testers by not introducing new bugs in areas they’ve already tested.

@azaozz

The wider software industry has done this work [how a release cycle is structured] for us. A mature software project is one that has a beta period during which the focus is on testing changes made during this release cycle to ensure its stability. Our current workflow means a random bugfix can go in ten minutes before RC 1.

@johnbillion

However, there are concerns specific to our project

I worry that we aren’t allowing space for older bugs that aren’t specific to the planned features in the release. I also worry that by calling hard freeze earlier in the process we narrow the window for feature inclusion too much. I think Matt agrees with my thoughts there, as well.

@chanthaboune

My concern here is to not shorten the time allowed for fixing older bugs, which I see as an essential part of the project.

@sergeybiryukov

Proposed solutions

Adding a “Feature Freeze” period came up from multiple parties and it seems to be the most popular solution to allow contributors to focus on features first and defect work later, without doing the defect work in Beta, which should be reserved for testing.

Easier said than done… @hellofromtonya presented us with two solutions

Proposal 1: feature freeze and then do defect work

This proposal is for a feature freeze 2-3 weeks before Beta 1 and then allocation of this time period for defect work.

Pro

This proposal has a clear definition in the 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. cycle after the major release is kicked off and when the release squad is in place. 

Concerns

  • It does not capitalize on the overlap between releases.
  • It does not provide a way to reduce the overall release cycle.
  • Does the major release squad need to be focused on the continuous defect work (i.e. defects not directly caused by the release)?

Proposal 2: defect work during release overlap

This proposal front-loads the defect work to overlap the previous release’s Beta and RC.

Pros

  • Work continues with purpose and focus while the previous release is in its testing and release phases. It capitalizes on the time between major releases while keeping the momentum rolling forward.
  • It provides an opportunity to shorten the overall major release cycle.

Cons:

  • Do we need the current release squad to be involved in this early phase or even in the defect cycle?
  • Could the component maintainers and CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. Team work together to help prioritize and escalate defect work?

Branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". at Beta

In both solutions, 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. gets branched at Beta

Length of Beta

Both solutions beg the question: is Beta long enough? For 5.7 it’s three weeks. If the leadership of the project decides to move forward with one of the above-proposed solutions, WordPress 5.8 will have to account for a longer Beta probably. See:

Concern: We already have feedback that it’s hard to keep up with changes for our 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/theme authors. While a change like this is possible, it would require some paradigm shifts that I don’t think have been fully explored.

@chanthaboune

Call to action

  1. Discuss this during the next dev-chat (January 13) and leave comments open for an additional week (January 20)
  2. Present any additional evidence gathered to Josepha and Matt for final saying.

Thank you @hellofromtonya for peer review