Dev Chat Summary: October 4th (4.9 week 10)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from October 4th (agendaSlack archive).

4.9 schedule

  • Today is the 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 deadline for enhancements and feature requests. All tickets have been scrubbed as of earlier today, any that are still open when the Beta 1 build process begins later today will be punted to Future Release.
  • Next on the 4.9 release schedule will be Beta 2 on Wednesday, October 11th.
  • 30 enhancements and features still in the milestone
  • Beta 1 build process will begin around Wednesday, October 4th 20:00 PDT / Thursday, October 5th 03:00 UTC

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/ blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. data storage

  • Want to start thinking about and discussing how block data is stored. We currently (specially after allowing metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. attributes) have a lot of ways to store block data, with different tradeoffs. It’s going to be important to communicate when each is appropriate.
  • This will come through examples and documentation, but generally such knowledge has also spread by core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org. doing talks and blogblog (versus network, site) posts, etc.
  • As people start to look at creating blocks, there are various ways to specify attributes, and different ways things can be saved (static blocks, dynamic blocks, etc). A lot of the reason people used custom fields or meta attrs will be different as blocks allow individual attributes that are still part of the content.
  • If you have input to share on that, please join in #core-editor and their weekly meetings.

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/. Handbook

  • They are moving / have moved the REST API Handbook content to GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/.
  • Once it’s deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors., the REST API handbook’s content will be managed in GitHub.

General announcements

  • @rskansing: I want to give a thanks to the security team for always being very nice and polite in regards to my many queries and questions

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