Dev Chat Summary: October 18th (4.9 week 12)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from October 18th (Slack archive).

4.9 schedule and priorities review

  • Down to 54 tickets in the 4.9 milestone, aiming to get to 40 in time for 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. 3
  • Beta 3 build process will begin around Wednesday, October 18th 20:00 PDT / Thursday, October 19th 03:00 UTC
  • Starting next week, we’ll have 2x weekly 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 to get to launch
  • Note the critical bug in Safari that breaks the new theme browsing/installation experience in the 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.; please help on this if you're familiar with Safari
  • Integration issues with Shiny Updates and the new theme installation experience in the Customizer (see: #42184). In particular, the FTPFTP FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol which is a way of moving computer files from one computer to another via the Internet. You can use software, known as a FTP client, to upload files to a server for a WordPress website. https://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients. credentials modal needs work for when it gets dismissed.

Dev Notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase.

General announcements

  • @mnelson4: #38583 could use feedback, ideally from from 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/. component maintainers

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