Dev Chat Summary: November 22nd (4.9.1 week 1)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 22nd (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9 feedback + 4.9.1 planning

• WordPress 4.9 was released last week, and so far 3 pressing issues have arisen that needs to be addressed in a timely manner:
  • #42573 (template file caching), #42574 (MEJS breaking things for some languages), and #42609 (file editing broken on Windows).
  • As we have a short timeline for this release, focusing on these 3 major issues for now, and planning a future point releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality. for any other regressions appear to be the ideal way forward.
  • @johnbillion has volunteered to run the 4.9.1 release, backed by @sergeybiryukov, we're aiming to have 4.9.1-RC1 on Monday November 27th, with a tentative release date set for Tuesday November 28th.

Request for devchat lead next week

• @sergeybiryukov has graciously volunteered to help with runnign next weeks Dev Chat, as many of us will be in transit for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US

Props to @clorith for helping lead devchat and write this summary. 🙌

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