Media meeting recap – Sept 14, 2017

Overview

This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took place in #core-media on 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/., on Thursday, September 14, 2017, 18:00 PM UTC. The purpose of these meetings are to move priority tasks forward, provide feedback on issues of interest, and review media focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

Attendees:
@joemcgill, @desrosj, @brainfork, @blobfolio, @jdub233, @tokyobiyori, @presskopp, @nosilver4u.

Transcript: Read on Slack

Tickets Reviewed

  • #41629: Widgets: Default to “custom URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org” in the image 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.@desrosj to investigate.
  • #21819: Use an image size for custom headers instead of duplicating an attachment – The main challenge is deciding on how data should be handled so that custom crops of images are associated with the original image but do not clutter up the main media library. @joemcgill to continue working on an approach.
  • #35218: Parse the creation date out of uploaded videos – @mikeschroder did some initial testing and found some concerns with creation date parsing. Needs further investigation.
  • #33981: Default Captions Should Use max-width – 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. is ready, needs second opinion. @desrosj to look.
  • #40921: Inconsistent Handling of mp4 by Audio Widget – MP4 is not in the list of extensions returned by wp_get_audio_extensions(). Patch looks good.
  • #41844: Media: audio players overflow playlist containers – Patch looks good. Needs review.
  • #38264: Tests: Uploads aren’t deleted after running individual tests – Initial approach is on the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.. Needs review.
  • #41704: Use a consistent title for “Add Media” button and “Insert Media” window – Assigned to @sergeybiryukov for a decision.
  • #41787: Media: JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. error when removing a video/audio sourced – There’s a PR for this on GitHub which needs to be reviewed.
  • #40175: Upload Validation / MIME Handling – Added to the milestone for review/commit.
  • #40774: Refine error message when embedding invalidinvalid A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid. Video (URL) – Patch on the ticket updates the error string with a more accurate message.

Next Meeting

Next meeting will take place on Thursday, September, 21 in #core-media on Slack. The agenda will once again focus on reviewing priority tickets for 4.9.

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