Revisions Update, 2/7

We started today’s office hours by reviewing @karmatosed’s latest mockups for the revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. screen. We’re in agreement that these reflect the direction we’ll take, so @adamsilverstein will begin coding the changes in preparation for Monday’s meeting. As some concerns have been raised about the use of red and green, @karmatosed will post to the Accessibility group’s P2 asking for feedback on the current mockups. She will also explore the use of patterns to differentiate additions and deletions, as suggested by @helen.

@westi made a few suggestions, based on his recent experiences with Revisions, which we’ve agreed to incorporate. For clarity, the current version will be included in the revisions list to provide a stronger connection with the overall revisions workflow. Second, we decided that when first landing on the revision screen for a given post, we should show the diff of the current version and its immediate predecessor revision; since most users are probably looking for this anyway, why not save them a step?

Lastly, we chatted about the status of code-oriented tickets scoped for 3.6. A few (#16215, #22289, and #19932) have patches, which we’ll be reviewing and providing feedback on before Monday’s meeting. With any luck, we can land at least one in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. before the next dev chat. Beyond that, development on the remaining tickets should progress over the weekend, with the aim of having more patches to review for our next office hours.

For reference, the tickets that are in scope for 3.6 (at least at this point), can be found here.

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