Dev Chat Summary: January 10th (4.9.2 week 6)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from January 10th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.2 planning

• Tentative release timing of 1/16 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., 1/23 for RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta)., and 1/30 for release
• 57 tickets currently on the milestone, @sergey will be reviewing them during a 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. scrub on Friday (Jan 12th) at 19:00 UTC
  
• Bug scrubs for future weeks will be scheduled around 19:00 UTC on Mondays, Wednesdays, and/or Fridays by @sergey and @desrosj

Updates from focus leads and component maintainers

• Design team would like to check in with the other teams and see if anyone has projects they need designers for in the next couple months. If you have needs then please reach out in the #design channel.
• 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/. team would like to know if your work would be aided by 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. improvements or is blocked by API issues; if so, please come see them in #core-restapi.
  
• Media and PHP teams have posted their meeting recaps from the past week for review.

Servehappy project

• @schlessera: posted a Servehappy project overview
  
• Our goal is to have a positive impact on PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher version distributions, to get a higher percentage of servers to run on supported PHP versions.
• We have 3 main building blocks right now:
  • 1. information page about PHP, its versions, and upgrading them (see: draft)
    
  • 2. adminadmin (and super admin) notices letting site owners know they run an old version
  • 3. pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party/theme requirements that prevent installation/updates when PHP version requirements are not met
• @flixos90: Regarding #1, we have a Trac ticket in place. The page itself has two goals: Convince site owners that it's worth their time to take action, and then explain how they can proceed.
  
• How and who do we approach to get it on wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ infrastructure? Should it be hosted as an area inside .org or as a separate site with separate domain (if yes, which one)?
• Plan to collaborate with Tide, in terms of preparing the PHP upgrade as users could check for their plugins and themes compatibility.
• @stevenkword: We are also considering making the PHP Compatibility Checker plugin a consumer of Tide when it's production ready. Leveraging the cached results would really speed it up. We're pushing an update for 5.2 support this afternoon, and it will contain 7.1 and 7.2 checks
• Anyone who's interested in helping out, please join our weekly meetings on Monday 16:00 UTC, and of course feel free to review what we currently have.
  

General announcements

• @jorbin: I want to draw some early attention to a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. that has the potential to impact all coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contributions, especially related to JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/.. Please take a read of #43055 and after reading it all, comment with any thoughts or concerns.
  
• @audrasjb: when will we have a chance to know WP 5.0 delivery roadmap?
  • @jbpaul17: I’m not aware of any pending updates, so I’d suggest for now joining the conversation in #core-editor and helping with 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/ as any roadmap or timeline will come from the progress of development there.

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on January 17, 2018 at 21:00 UTC / January 17, 2018 at 21:00 UTC in the #core SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel. Please feel free to drop in with any updates or questions. If you have items to discuss but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.

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