Dev Chat Summary: April 12th (4.7.4 week 6)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from April 12th (agendaSlack archive).

4.7.4 Planning

  • There are currently 23 open tickets in the milestone
  • We had been aiming for an early May release, but an annoying 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. (#40305, noted by @azaozz) related to TinyMCE and the upcoming Chrome release has forced us to reevaluate this strategy
  • After talking to Andrew and the security team, we decided on a new release date for WordPress 4.7.4: Tuesday, April 18, with April 20 as a fallback.
  • There will likely be an additional 4.7.5 release soon after this one

Customize Team

Editor Team

  • We’re in the long stretch of building and building, so we’re also holding “office hours” instead of weekly meetings.

REST API Team

  • The 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/. team meeting will be changing time again, vote for your preferred time via the doodle poll

General Announcements

  • @helen is going on leave after Friday, April 14th until August (probably 2017) (hopefully she meant 2017) (is it August yet?)

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