Customize Meeting Summary: September 11th

This post summarizes the Customize meeting from September 11th in the #core-customize 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 (Slack archive).

Participants: @westonruter, @jbpaul17, @joemcgill. @melchoyce and other Automatticians travelling today for this week’s Automattic Grand MeetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. (“annual company meeting”) and thus not in attendance.

Discussion highlights

Notification area

  • @westonruter: working on drafting design and dependencies we have (see: #35210)
  • @westonruter: Designs should get finalized today and work can get going on that piece quickly
  • @jbpaul17: I should be able to have work start on that shortly

CodeMirror (“Better Code Editing“)

  • @westonruter: aiming to get the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 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. committed today
  • @westonruter: opportunity for a contributor to learn and get experience is integrating a PHP linter ahead of 4.9 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1 (October 4th)

Widgets

  • @westonruter: Gallery 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. needs follow up from @joemcgill on Update the gallery widget preview design
  • @westonruter: Supporting Embeds in the Text widget will need support from @swissspidy in #34115

Other updates

  • @jbpaul17: chasing down potential contributors to help with other items for 4.9, no updates as of now
  • Plan to start 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 after weekly meeting leading up to 4.9 Beta 1

Next week’s meeting

The next meeting will take place on Monday, September 18, 17:00 UTC in the #core-customize Slack channel. Please feel free to drop in with any updates, questions, or tickets you’d like to discuss. If you items to discuss about this but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.

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