Media Component: Call for volunteers

The media component is a very large and highly-used component in WordPress—including sub-components like media uploading, the media editor, galleries, embeds, media template functions, etc. Maintaining such a large part of the codebase is a formidable task, and frankly, one that could use some extra love.

As of this writing, there are 268 open tickets attributed to the media component, many of which haven’t received much attention. A release focused on 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 is a perfect opportunity to reverse this trend.

Get involved

The team around the media component has gotten a bit light over the past few releases. If you’re interested in assisting with this effort, leave a comment on this post or reach out in the #core-images channel on Slack.

We could use help on everything from reproducing bugs and verifying patches, to writing patches and unit tests. If you’re looking for a way to get involved in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development, this is a great place to get started.

Weekly bug scrubs

During the 4.6 release cycle, we’re going to experiment with using our weekly meeting times to do bug scrubs on the component in order to get the number of open bugs down to a reasonable number. The next meeting will be May 6 at 19:00 UTC in the #core-images channel on Slack.

#4-6, #media