Dev Chat Agenda for October 19 (4.7 week 9)

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This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on October 19, 2016 at 20:00 UTC:

Schedule reminder: Today is the major feature merge deadline! That leaves us one week until betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process., where the list of feature request and enhancement tickets needs to be at zero. It is currently at 39.
Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. reminder: There are currently 110 tickets in the 4.7 milestone. This is 35 fewer than last week 🎉 However, in just 4 short weeks, this also 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 7 days.
Call For Bug Scrubs: Can you run a scrub to help ensure tickets move forward?
Components and features: any decision points to be made, things that are stuck, or calls for help.
- Final merge decisions
  - Twenty Seventeen (@davidakennedy)
  - REST API: Content API (@kadamwhite)
    - Success metrics
- Customize (@westonruter, @celloexpressions)
- Media (@mikeschroder, @joemcgill)
- 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. (@swissspidy)
- Editor (@azaozz, @iseulde)
- 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)
Open floor for tickets.

If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to the above, please leave a comment below. See you there!

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