Dev Chat Summary: June 7th (4.8 week 6)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from June 7th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.8 timing recap and Pre-Final Release & Dry Run checklist items

• Beta 1 went out on Friday, May 12th; Beta 2 went out on Monday, May 22nd
• RC1 went out on Thursday, May 25th; RC2 went out on Thursday, June 1st
• 4.8 is scheduled for June 1, 2017 at 9am EDT
• Events 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. looks ready
• Credits 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. to be updated by @ocean90 tomorrow morning
• About page update for responsive, CDN-hosted images coming from @melchoyce
• Announcement post draft is ready to go; @jorbin & @ocean90 to help provide contributor & language count as input
• Announcement email being drafted by @matt
• Codex page to be updated by @jbpaul17
• Agreed to remove “partial back to IE8” from Browser support page in Design handbook
• tinymce/plugins/wpembed to be added to $_old_files by @ocean90
• No new default theme, so $_new_bundled_files is fine
• Updates to default themes and submission to repo to be done by @davidakennedy, committed by @ocean90
• Hosts email to be drafted by @jbpaul17, email to be reviewed & sent by @jorbin
• Systems to be covered by @vnsavage
• grunt prerelease check for tests & standards to be run by @jorbin

4.8 Bug Scrub

• Reviewing four tickets in Defects Awaiting Review, reported against trunk section from Report 40
• #40929: relates to improved translator docs, punting to 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. (4.8.1)
• #40932: moved to Future Release
• #40927: not a regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5., moved to Future Release
• #40906: marked as a dupe of #40685, not a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release. for 4.8

Other News

• Customize: looking for a new contributor to work on the HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers./Code widget, a good-first-bug, please chat in #core-customize if you’re interested
• Editor: working to get the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party in the plugin repo so that more people can review it and provide feedback. Goal is this week.
• Devchat coordination: will be covered in upcoming devchat

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