Autosave and Post Locking Update, 1/25

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We had our scheduled meeting today in IRC to continue planning the feature for this cycle.

@azaozz noted that he’s continuing work on the Heartbeat 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. #23216, on schedule for initial commit before next week.

I am continuing work on an initial pass for the post/page tables to display locks, and properly display edit/bulk edit links when locked. Should have an initial pass ready for view on Monday.

@mintindeed offered to help port his 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 to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. for improved login expiration warnings, which is great! He’s created #23295 to track the efforts.

@asannad (AmitSannad on IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net.) offered to help with localstorage Autosaves, which is being tracked on #23220. Initially, we’ll use a simple schema for storage, but will probably need something more complex later on to avoid collisions where multiple databases are used within the same domain.

As initial guidance for improved workflow for locks, we’re looking over the plugin mentioned in #18515. @nacin is checking with the authors to see if there’s a new version we can take a look at.

Our next meeting is on Tuesday, January 29th at 2100 UTC (1pm PST).

#3-6, #autosave-and-post-locking

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