Dev Chat Summary: March 22nd (4.7.4 week 3)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from March 22nd (agendaSlack archive).

4.7.4 Planning

  • Moving dev chat back an hour to 20:00 UTC starting with next week’s chat (due to DST)
  • That makes next week’s meeting at Wednesday, March 29, 20:00 UTC
  • Bug scrub planned for Thursday, March 23, 15:00 UTC to review tickets in 4.7.4 milestone, likely tackling needs-patch tickets first
  • Tentatively aiming for first week of May for 4.7.4 release, but will adjust as 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. scrubs determine what needs to / should land in 4.7.4

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team reps

  • Still looking for nominations for a Core team repTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.
  • Core team reps need to plan to be at the Community Summit and can take on organizing topics and people
  • @logankipp planning to be at the summit, open to helping; will tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) him as Core team rep, but would like to find one more person to help
  • Please comment or contact @jbpaul17 directly if you’re planning to attend the summit and can help organize topics/people for Core

Editor team

  • Moving into feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. phase with Gutenberg, looking for and greatly appreciate contributions and feedback to the GitHub repo
  • Lots of discussion ongoing in the 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 (e.g., Plugin: Implement block registering API), so please follow along and chime in
  • Will proceed on GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ without support for older browsers
  • Will start surfacing things that may need broader discussion in how we use JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors., what tools we develop, etc.

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