Dev Chat Summary: January 25th (4.7.2 week 2)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from January 25th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.7.2 Schedule

• Reminder that no release date has been scheduled for 4.7.2 yet, we will assess tickets milestoned in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. next week and begin planning for timing then.

Customizer team update

• Please read two most recent posts: Customization in 2017 and Meeting Notes from January 23
• Began scrubbing 198 tickets in customize component backlog to evaluate their priorities against the goals for the year, closing the ones that are no longer valid
• We’re assigning tickets to the next minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality. when they are defects or small enhancements that can be tackled in the next month
• Larger enhancements that are aligned with the year’s goals which are not suitable for the next few weeks will be assigned to 4.8
• The Future Release milestone is for tickets that should be done but which aren’t a priority for the goals of 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. this year
• Looking for input on #39692 (Fix missing assignment of menus on theme switch), #39693 (Fix missing assignment of widgets on theme switch), and #35243 (Extending the text 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. to also allow visual mode)
• Big effort around #35760 (Provide 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. for TinyMCE editor to be dynamically instantiated via JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors.), so if you’re well-versed in TinyMCE please help
  • In summary, this will provide basic text formatting, links, and media embedding capabilities
• If you’re looking for patches to contribute, please look at the defects milestoned for 4.7.2 that need patches
• Continuing big picture design discussions about what the customizer should look like in light of conversations also happening with the editor

Editor team update

• Please review the What Are Little Blocks Made Of? post and subsequent comments to get some insight into their approach on “blocks” as the focus this year

Trac Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.(s)

• #39256: 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/.: Multiple issues with setting dates of posts
  • Not really possible to use the REST API to manipulate dates in a reasonable fashion
  • This is something we should fix ASAP before people start relying on the current, broken behavior
  • Please take a look, especially if you have experience with date handling in other parts of WP
• #39466: Get list of post API request missing status
  • Should be a pretty easy win in 4.7.2
• #39264: Add WP-API JS Client unit tests to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.
  • Could use a review
  • Would love help automating the generation of the mocked data, ideally as a grunt task
• #39072: Add gmt_offset as a REST API setting
  • Sort of related to date handling, a bit involved, doing it later isn’t so bad because it’s an addition rather than a change
• #36574: Redesign term pages
  • 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. needs testing from TaxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. team

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