Dev Chat Summary: March 29th (4.7.4 week 4)

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This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from March 29th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.7.4 Planning

There were only 35 open tickets in the milestone at the time of the meeting.
2 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 over the last 2 weeks helped close a lot of those open tickets.
The release is still on schedule for the first week of May, but a few more bug scrubs are necessary.
If you have owned a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker., please help test it!
Next bug scrub will take place on April 3, 2017 at 17:00 UTC. @stevenkword offered to help.

Editor Team

Nothing in particular to discuss this week.
Work continues on the editor feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins..
Day to day discussion and work happens in the #core-editor 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/. channel, and the Gutenberg GitHub project.
Help testing, feedback, and contributions are welcome in both places.

REST API Team

No updates this week.
Work continues in the #core-restapi Slack channel.
There are some component tickets in the 4.7.4 milestone that will hopefully be closer to merge this week.

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

@desrosj, @stevenkword, and @adamsilverstein all volunteered to help @logankipp as 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..
All three are attending WCEU and the Community Summit.

Open Floor Items

@dlh brought up #36188
@stevenkword brought up #20899
Both requested additional eyes, and people to test the fixes. Both offered to trade tickets and test.

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