Title: Twenty Seventeen Features Meeting Notes: Oct. 4 2016 Author: David A. Kennedy Published: October 4, 2016 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidakennedy/) [David A. Kennedy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidakennedy/) 10:46 pm _on_ October 4, 2016 Tags: [4.7 ( 124 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/4-7/), [bundled-theme ( 84 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/bundled-theme/), [twenty-seventeen ( 17 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/twenty-seventeen/) # Twenty Seventeen Features Meeting Notes: Oct. 4 2016 Here’s the summary for this week. The meeting was busy, so feel free to add anything missed in the comments. **Housekeeping** * [Slack archive of meeting](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-themes/p1475600415001499). * Meetings are every Friday at 18:00 UTC in [#core-themes](https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-themes/) in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/). * The major design implementation [pull request was merged today](https://github.com/WordPress/twentyseventeen/pull/89). **Summary** The group: * discussed [#37974](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37974) (Add multi-panel feature to pages through add_theme_support) for the majority of the meeting. The goal was to find a minimum viable productMinimum Viable Product "A minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to satisfy early customers, and to provide feedback for future product development." - [WikiPedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product) that could be developed in the time left. * decided to shoot for this feature to be 1. limited to the front page only. 2. exist 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. 3. provide basic markup, created by CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. * decided [this story board stood out as the strongest](https://cldup.com/cXVZ4UlQ_4.png) to be iterated on and mocked up as a design. * decided live preview in the Customizer wasn’t critical at the current time. * [@helen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/helen/) and I will work on marshaling people to help with the project. * [@karmatosed](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) will work on the initial mock-up of the feature. * briefly discussed [#38172](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/38172) (Enable video headers in custom headers) It also needs to have a minimum viable product defined and those interested were encouraged to comment on the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. with that in mind. * brought up [#19627](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19627), and that could be worked on but it’s not a priority over the other major features for Twenty Seventeen. **Next steps** * For **Add multi-panel feature to pages through add_theme_support, **the mock up will be created and developers are needed to work on it. * For **Enable video headers in custom headers,** a clearer scope needs defining and more developers are needed to work on it. A basic 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. exists for this ticket.** ** **Call for help** Twenty Seventeen needs you. Home pages should be fun to create and a heck of a lot easier. Headers can be even more captivating. If you’re interested in working on either of these projects, please let me or [@helen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/helen/) know. 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[Nick Halsey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/celloexpressions/) 12:45 am _on_ October 5, 2016 3. On [#37974](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37974), “decided live preview 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. wasn’t critical at the current time” is in conflictconflict A conflict occurs when a patch changes code that was modified after the patch was created. These patches are considered _stale_, and will require a _refresh_ of the changes before it can be applied, or the conflicts will need to be _resolved_. with “decided to shoot for this feature to be … 2. exist in the Customizer”. 4. To be clear, if it’s in the customizer it needs to support live preview with selective refresh transport at a minimum. My suggestion there was that it may be more appropriate as part of the content editing flow given the restriction to pages for now. 5. I can help with video headers development, particularly on the customizer side. Let me know when and exactly what you’d like me to work on there so we don’t 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. at the same time. 6. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0608b540c7da83b396fd9a453ad1ac0298152522bc3a06888d41649e4024a089? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 7. [Ahmad Awais](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrahmadawais/) 10:39 pm _on_ October 5, 2016 8. Looking forward to helping maintain code standards and 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. panels in TwentySeventeen. 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