This post summarizes the Customize meeting from September 25th 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, @melchoyce, @obenland, @sirjonathan, @joemcgill, @sayedwp, @jbpaul17. Misbehaving: @tracbot.

Discussion highlights

Drafting and Scheduling

• @westonruter: my number one priority now is #39896
• Several outstanding code review issues and todos to resolve
• @melchoyce to review UIUI User interface on these PRs

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.

• @westonruter: I merged the gallery widget yesterday
• @joemcgill and @melchoyce: to review this week and call out any issues
• See related Gallery widget Dev Note

CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. UXUX User experience for themes

• #37661 getting a #design review now

Bug scrub

• Trac listing of the enhancements and feature requests milestoned for 4.9 for the team
• #39930: docs changes, so changing this from enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. task ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.
• #28721: related to and will be resolved when #39896 is merged
• #34843: will be resolved by #37661
• #35827: no one working on this, so punting to Future Release
• #40527: punting
• #40922: punting
• #37964: will be picked up by @sayedwp when #39896 is done
• #38707: CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. highlight part is implemented, but “revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision., selection, per-page, pop-out” is not
  • “per-page” aspect has been yanked from consideration in the near future
  • will work on revisions, selection, and pop-out in a feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. outside of coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.
• #39275: likely to be resolved in #39896
• #40104: @bpayton hopes to have a 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. up by Friday
• Topic for future devchat: What is the difference between a feature request and a feature project. It’s not really formalized. Are we deeming “feature requestfeature request A feature request should generally begin the process in the ideas forum, on a mailing list, as a plugin, or brought to the attention of the core team, such as through scope meetings held for each major release. Unsolicited tickets of this variety are typically, therefore, discouraged.” to be the same as “feature project”?

Next week’s meeting

The next meeting will take place on Monday, October 2, 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 have items to discuss but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.

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