Dev Chat Summary: November 15th (4.9 week 16)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 15th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9 schedule + release timing

  • 4.9 release was delayed from yesterday (Tuesday, November 14th) to today (Wednesday, November 15th)
  • An updated 4.9 build went out earlier today, we still have to rebuild tinymce.min.js, but otherwise please test!
  • @afercia disagrees with patching last minute serious bugs without proper, broad, testing but deferred to decision by release leads
  • 4.9 release scheduled for later today (Wednesday, November 15th) at 3pm PST / 23:00 UTC
  • [Editor note: 4.9 released successfully! 🚀]
  • We’ll discuss post-4.9 / pre-5.0 plans later once we’ve had a chance to gather broader feedback on 4.9.
  • There is currently no timeline or plan for 4.9.x, but there are tickets currently slotted as 4.9.1 in Trac.

Meeting time changes

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