Aaron Jorbin 12:16 pm on August 30, 2016
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The Upcoming Week in 4.7: August 30 – September 4

This is the jump-start post for the first week of the WordPress 4.7 release cycle. Many projects are still putting together pinkprints for success, so this week is all about getting 4.7 off to a flying start. 🛫

Priority tickets this week:

There are currently 3 tickets that require very early consideration.  Please follow them, give feedback, and help test where applicable.

  • #17817: do_action/apply_filters/etc. recursion on same filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. kills underlying call
  • #37699: Death to Globals Episode #1: A Registry, A Pattern
  • #36335: Next generation: coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. autoloader proposal

Core meetings this week:

All meetings in the WordPress Slack #core channel unless specified otherwise.

Things to do this week:

  • Meander through the wishlist comments and give feedback where you feel comfortable
  • Working on a project that you would like to target for 4.7?  Make sure to talk to @helen.
  • Schedule a bug scrub.

#4-7, #jump-starts