Dev Chat Summary: January 24th (4.9.3 week 2)

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This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from January 24th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.3 planning

4.9.3 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. was supposed to be built on Tuesday, but some tickets were still actively being worked on, so it will be done after dev chat
@sergey to post on Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. with notable fixes, things to test, and link to JSHint dev note
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 release are still planned for 29th and 30th, respectively
Note: 4.9.3-beta1 is out, post is still pending

JSDoc initiative

@atimmer prepared a Make/Core post to announce the JSDoc initiative
Feedback on the draft is welcomed, send 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/. DM to @atimmer with updates
It looks a lot like the inline hook documentation and the setup is the same: file by file, everyone can claim a file, at the end all files will be documented
@kadamwhite to publish post when its ready

General announcements

@mshumacher looking to help move #40108 along, starting with unit tests

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on January 31, 2018 at 21:00 UTC / January 31, 2018 at 21:00 UTC in the #core Slack 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.

#4-9-3, #core, #dev-chat, #summary

Welcome!

Communication

4.9.3 planning

JSDoc initiative

General announcements

Next meeting

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