Dev Chat Summary: September 28 (4.7 week 6)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from September 21st (agenda, Slack archive).

Reminders

• Schedule: We are 3 weeks from the final chance to merge in major features. This includes Twenty Seventeen.
• Tickets: There are currently 196 tickets in the 4.7 milestone. This is 14 more than last week. In just 6 short weeks, this needs to be zero. For any tickets you’ve moved into the milestone, please make sure these are active tickets, with some kind of activity in the last 10 days.
• Bug Scrubs: We’re looking for people to help run a 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. scrub, please reach out to @jorbin if you have interest (details here). Bug scrubs this week plus one on Monday and one on Wednesday next week at yet to be scheduled times.

Components & Features

• Twenty Seventeen (@davidakennedy, @melchoyce)
  • Latest update
  • Add multi-panel feature to pages through add_theme_support (#37974) & Enable Video Headers in Custom Headers (#38172) need eyes and help the most
  • Additional i18ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill. eyes on Better support for non-latin font fallbacks especially designers who use non-latin alphabets natively to hear suggestions for non-latin font stacks that would look good in the theme
  • Next meeting Friday at 18:00UTC (theme-focused), Tuesday (feature-focused)
• Media (@mikeschroder, @joemcgill)
  • Latest update
  • Unexpected change to media title behavior in WP 4.6.1 (#37989) – Looks like @sergey added a 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. that fixes the remaining issues with some UTF-8 characters. Should be committed soon.
  • Media search doesn’t include file name (#22744) – The current implementation is trampling any preexisting JOINs. Should have a patch a new patch ready to test soon.
  • Also looking at pursuing additional media organization improvements through a feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins., details still need discussion, @karmatosed on board to help with design
  • Next meeting Friday at 17:00 UTC
• Customize (@westonruter, @celloexpressions)
  • Latest update
  • Primary commit for Harden panel/section UIUI User interface code by removing contents from being logically nested (read: goodbye margin-top hacks) (#34391) is in, and a dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. is scheduled to be published after today’s dev chat
    • Some major changes here, so we need pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and theme authors to test
  • Received design feedback on A New Experience for Discovering, Installing, and Previewing Themes in the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. (#37661) and working on making those 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. by the end of this week and planning to publish a feature proposal on Friday
    • Need to discuss themes again during tomorrow’s #design meeting for final approval before the changes are made
  • Need attention on Provide a better gateway for code-based theme customizations with the Customizer (#35395)
    • Discussion of whether this direction is appropriate lead to tentative consensus that this is likely appropriate for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.
    • Next steps will be to loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop. @folletto in to improve the design and polish up the patch
    • Big other blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. discussed: sanitizing and validating the CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. & most appropriate corresponding capability
      • Currently rudimentary validation in the patch for balanced braces and comments. Need improvement if relying on it heavily, but it provides instant user feedback
      • Capability solution needs to work for multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site if at all possible, since that’s a primary use case
      • Discussion to continue on the TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. and/or #core-customize
• i18n (@swissspidy)
  • Feedback/help on Introduce a localeLocale A locale is a combination of language and regional dialect. Usually locales correspond to countries, as is the case with Portuguese (Portugal) and Portuguese (Brazil). Other examples of locales include Canadian English and U.S. English.-switching function (#26511) would be appreciated
    • The problem is that labels of custom post types and taxonomies are only evaluated once, so switching locales wouldn’t properly translate those.
    • There’s a proposed fix for built-in types and taxonomies, but we prefer a better solution that works for all of these.
• Editor (@azaozz, @iseulde)
  • Would like to help with a survey (scratchpad/draft). Need to start gathering user usage stats, should be opt-in, start with a plugin first, and release the aggregated data
  • Weekly data tracking (back-end) meeting Wednesday at 1900 UTC
• HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. (@johnbillion)
  • Announcement post
• REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. (@krogsgard, @kadamwhite )
  • Latest update
  • Whether the API should follow core behavior and save a revision every time a post is updated
    • Right now every update to a post creates a revision and can be a bit painful for some clients, so: 1) should that always happen? 2) should we have the ability to turn it off?
    • Decided on: 1) Yes.  2) The ability to use auto-drafts like in core makes sense, but doesn’t need to block merge.
  • How to handle image permissions, specifically for the case where an image is attached (uploaded) to a private post and then featured in a public post
    • Specifically, if I upload an attachment to a private post, its visibility is governed by that post, so it too is private but, in wp-adminadmin (and super admin) I can add it as featured media to another public post. When that public post is queried: what happens!?
    • @joemcgill summary: I happen to think it’s an oversight in WordPress that we allow an image attached to a private post to be set as the featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. of another post (and by an author without permission to view the private parent post). We should probably either close this loophole or detach the attachment from the private post whenever it’s set as a featured image on another post.
    • @kadamwhite to document decision, @rmccue @joemcgill @helen et al will identify core tickets that should be opened.
  • Whether (and how) to expose edit locks through the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.
    • Main thing here is whether this is a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release.? Decision: edit locks are great, but doesn’t need to block merge.
  • Next bug scrub is Thursday 1400 UTC; next team meeting is 1400 UTC on Monday, October 3rd

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