Media Weekly Update (Sept 30)

This post serves to jump-start discussion before the weekly check in, which takes place in #core-images on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. The next meeting is Friday, October 7 at 17:00 UTC and agenda for these meetings includes moving priority tasks forward, providing feedback on issues of interest, and reviewing media focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

Summary from last week

The last meeting was Friday, September 30 at 17:00 UTC. You can read the entire chat log in the #core-images channel on Slack.

Attendees: @joemcgill, @mikeschroder, @swissspidy, @flixos90, @azaozz

  • Unexpected change to media title behavior in WP 4.6.1 (#37989)@joemcgill noted that @sergey found a fix for the remaining UTF-8 issues and it has been committed to trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision., but needs to be backported still. @joemcgill working on getting this done. Test please!
  • Downscale to only smaller images with srcset (#36477) – It looks like a true fix is not likely to land in 4.7, since this would have likely been part of changing the way WordPress handles full size images. @mikeschroder and @joemcgill to test the current 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. for performance and SSIM.
  • Better PDF thumbnails (#31050)@markoheijnen was not able to attend, but previously noted that he is continuing work on this for a week or two to try to make 4.7.
  • WordPress image’s title is not alt (#34635)@joemcgill chatted with the AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) team about this, and the suggestion is that WordPress should no longer guess at an appropriate alt if the user hasn’t explicitly added one. He notes that this shouldn’t be that difficult to patch, but the change will need to be well communicated.
  • image_send_to_editor 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. is not fired when an Image is edited or replaced in TinyMCE (#34823) – Based on @adamsilverstein‘s feedback, it looks like the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. should be closed, as there’s a different filter intended for this purpose.
  • Usage of image_size_names_choose breaks JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. attachment model attributes (#34981) – Chatted about a bit of background. @azaozz took a look and posted a new patch for review.
  • Sanitize accents in attachment filenames (#22363) – From @gitlost’s comments, it looks like there are fixes in remove_accents() necessary that should happen first, and would likely fix the base 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. here. His work on it is mostly in #24661. @mikeschroder to dig into the progress of Safari’s support of these filenames. Feedback from those who have strong knowledge in UTF/character encodings would be appreciated.
  • Rotate Full Size Images on Upload (#14459 and #37140) – Would rather not destroy EXIF/IPTC in full size images (with GD), so may be better to fix this in Imagick first. Needs performance testing. Comment left on ticket.
  • Add new coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. media widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. (#32417) – No updates here. May not be 4.7 at this point, but @joemcgill reaching out to @designsimply for status.
  • Media organization improvements:
    • Make media library searchable by filename (#22744) – @joemcgill added a patch to fix a JOIN issue found by @flixos90. Please continue testing this, especially with large media libraries.
    • @flixos90 opened a GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo to work on media taxonomies/UIUI User interface, and is organizing a feature project around it. @joemcgill suggests an initial meeting with @karmatosed for high level direction, followed by changes in the 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, or core directly where appropriate.

Agenda for the next meeting

This week, discussion will continue on priority projects for the 4.7 release. If you have specific tickets that you want to have discussed, feel free to leave a comment on this post or reach out on Slack in the #core-images channel.

#4-7, #images, #media