Dev Chat Summary: February 14th (4.9.5 week 2)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from February 14th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.5 planning

  • We’re looking for nominations for people to lead this minor 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., self-nominations are very much welcome. Please reach out to @jbpaul17 (@jeffpaulon 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/.) or comment on this post with nominations.
  • No timeline set for 4.9.5, but minor releases tend to run 6-8 weeks so we’ll go with what fits with the release leads’ schedule
  • Potential focus for 4.9.5 could be support of foundational work needed to support 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/

Updates from focus leads and component maintainers

  • The PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher team shared a recap from their recent meeting, thanks again to them for documenting that discussion
  • The GDPR compliance team met earlier today, so if you missed the meeting but have interest in the topic you can follow along in the #gdpr-compliance channel.
  • The New Contributor meeting has resumed, thanks to @desrosj for getting that going again

“good-first-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.” claiming process

  • Topic primer from @drewapicture: Gardeners have (mostly) been updating patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing.-related keywords on `good-first-bug` tickets, but not assigning the tickets which is what actually moves a `good-first-bug` ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. from the unclaimed to the claimed list. I just went through and assigned maybe 40 tickets, which puts the unclaimed list at a much more realistic 4 tickets. It might be worth a discussion about whether we should change the “claiming” behavior to trigger off of adding the `has-patch` keyword vs being assigned. It’s one thing to ask people to just do what needs to be done in the current workflow, but that doesn’t seem to be working, so maybe the better option is to just change how it works so it can be more automagical.
  • Agreement that adding a patch equates to claiming a ticket, conceptually auto-claiming could work
  • Meta#3459 created to track this work

General announcements

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on February 21, 2018 at 21:00 UTC / February 21, 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.

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