Editorial Flow Update, 2/7

Editorial flow is making progress and hitting interesting questions to answer. Our two primary tickets right now are #12706 and #23314.

For the first, we’re waiting on feedback on the approach from @nacin. Once we’ve gotten confirmation it’s the right direction, I’ll continue working to make 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. commit-ready.

For the second, the biggest question was how we should handle 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. for post metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. and taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. terms. In the interest of getting to a committable patch, we’ll be dropping post meta / custom taxonomy support in favor of just being able to stage edits for the title and body content. Furthermore we’ve decided it would be worthwhile to add a new post type property so this functionality is opt-in. Posts and Pages in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. will receive this by default.

Our primary goals are to have commit-ready patches for both tickets by the beginning of next week. Konstantin’s secondary goal is to chat with @westi and @ethitter and see whether revisions for post meta is within scope for 3.6. My secondary goal is to go through other editorial flow tickets and touch base with where each is at.

Next office hours are Tuesday, February 12th at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 1800 UTC.

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