Dev Chat Summary: July 5th (4.8.1 week 3)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from July 5th (agendaSlack archive).

4.8.1 planning

  • #40907 is committed to trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision., but needs user testing
  • #40951 has a good 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., but not committed yet and needs user testing
    • Main holdup is the best use of pointers (or another notice mechanism) to inform users to use the Custom HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. 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. going forward for adding arbitrary HTML
    • Another possible use of pointers is when a user pastes HTML into TinyMCE, to correct years of pasting into the Text widget’s textarea
  • Aiming to make a 4.8.1-alpha release build to make it easier for those testing, will also note testing steps on respective tickets
  • Will schedule 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 next week & post those times separately to Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

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/.: image permissions model

  • Issue originally described in WP-API GitHub repo Issue 1987
  • Relates to #37186 and #17255
  • Will continue discussion in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress., also in detail in upcoming Media component meeting

Editor

  • 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/ is now at v0.3
  • As folks help test, please note the Gutenberg version when creating an Issue in the GitHub repo

General announcements

#4-8-1, #core, #dev-chat, #summary