Dev Chat Summary: November 8th (4.9 week 15)

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This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 8th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9 schedule

4.9 RC2 went out this week
4.9 release scheduled for Tuesday, November 14th at 3pm PST / 23:00 UTC
Decision against adding any pointers in the adminadmin (and super admin) interface, changes should be discoverable without them
@obenland to update the Credits APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. on Tuesday
@jbpaul17 to make updates to 4.9 codex page
@melchoyce to generate Press Kit including screenshots and videos

Meeting time changes

Core devchat has updated to Wednesday’s at 21:00 UTC as of today
Core editor has also updated to Wednesday’s at 18:00 UTC as of today

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/ update

Updated to v1.6 on October 31st, please help test

General announcements

@jdgrimes: looking for additional help, feedback, and decisions on #41593
- I got started on this building a PHPCSPHP Code Sniffer PHP Code Sniffer, a popular tool for analyzing code quality. The WordPress Coding Standards rely on PHPCS. sniffsniff A module for PHP Code Sniffer that analyzes code for a specific problem. Multiple stiffs are combined to create a PHPCS standard. The term is named because it detects code smells, similar to how a dog would "sniff" out food. for the WordPress-Coding-Standards
- The sniff would check all calls to functions that expect slashed data, and ensure that the data passed to them was actually slashed
- I have a list of all the functions that expect slashed data, ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. is to get all of these documented
- There may be some places where we need to decide whether we want to keep expecting slashed data or not

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