Revisions Update, 2/11

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As has been the case for many sessions now, Monday’s 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. office hours focused on changes to the UIUI User interface. @karmatosed provided new mockups, influenced by a thread on the Accessibility blog. @adamsilverstein also posted a series of patches on #23396 that begin to implement the general direction we’ve chosen for UI updates (aside: we’ll do our best to keep future mockups on this ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker., for easier discovery; until now, most have been posted in the comments on these update threads). We are certainly approaching a consensus on the new design, but have held off on any significant UI-specific coding until we’re confident that our efforts won’t be wasted.

Beyond UI, there are patches on three tickets that could use testing: #16215, #22289, and #19932. @adamsilverstein and @westi are working on unit tests, which should help move 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. review along.

We should have new mockups to review during tomorrow’s office hours at 1500 UTC in #wordpress-dev.

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