This post is a summary of the latest dev chat meeting which took place on March 14th (agenda – Slack archive).
4.9.5 Planning
Planned release schedule:
- Beta 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.: 03/20
- RC 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).: 03/27
- Expected release date: 04/03
Beta scheduled for next Tuesday, March 20th. Beta release process planned to begin after the weekly bug 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.
An extra bug scrub is planned on Saturday 17th at 15:00 UTC for 4.9.5 triage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors..
Also:
- Some 5.0
good-first-bug labelled tickets have been moved back to 4.9.5.
- All tickets slated in 4.9.5 that are not 100% OK before beta release process will land in future release. @pento added 4.9.6 milestone to handle this.
Release planning: Gutenberg 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/, GDPR, serve happy and other projects
There are a couple items that would be good to ship ahead of Gutenberg's release. How can WordPress best supports getting GDPR updates out ahead of its May deadline? Similarly for other non-Gutenberg projects (e.g., serve happy, debug screen, on-boarding improvements), how can WordPress best supports getting them out ahead of Gutenberg?
Now for Gutenberg, and as discussed last week there are various "Gutentasks" that could use some "Gutenhelp":
- Various REST 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/. tasks that can be done now in parallel
- Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. changes
- New endpoints and infrastructure plans
- How would inclusion of Gutenberg/JS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. packages work
Recap:
- @pento: about GDPR, there may be some smaller things ready for 4.9.5, but it will probably needs a 4.9.6/7 release towards the end of April or early May to add all the bits and pieces.
- @audrasjb: question about new files or big changes like GDPR in a minor 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..
- @pento: new files can't be added in point releases, as a general rule, but there is no problem adding features (like GDPR) in 4.9.x releases, and there won't be a 4.10 release.
- @pento: Serve happy needs some polish, but should be ready for 4.9.5. Unfortunately, it was merged to trunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision. early: There was design feedback on it which wasn't implemented.
- Discussion about design in WordPress: @pento, @afercia, other contributors & core-committers to talk about design decisions in Trac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. workflow and in WordPress development in general. This topic will be discussed separately of this dev chat but it seems really fundamental.
- @Krizzy: question about some
good-first-bug tickets status while Gutenberg is being developed. @melchoyce answered if it’s something small and contained, it’s good to push that forward into a point 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.. And as a reminder, everybody is always welcome to contribute to the discussion, even if the ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. is already marked as "claimed".
- @aduth: inclusion of Gutenberg/JS packages was a topic of the JS meeting this week. Conversation already started in core-js slack channel.
- @pento: There have been some small core changes for Gutenberg that have landed in
trunk already, mostly REST API tweaks. That process can continue. The larger REST API changes probably won't come until around when the merge proposal comes.
- @kadamwhite announced REST API meeting is still 17:00 UTC post-daylight-savings, so that's an hour later than last week.
Gutenberg
- @matveb: 2.4 of Gutenberg was released today.
- @sergeybiryukov: question about the right time for #41316 – Introduce "try Gutenberg" callout –, or still too early.
- @pento: 4.9.5 release being in 3 weeks is good time for the callout to be added, so it should be kept in the milestone.
Various questions
- @benoitchantre asked if #36455 should be milestoned for 4.9.5 to prevent OPcache issues to users invited to upgrade their PHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher version.
- @mikeschroder: that particular ticket needs a new patch 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..
Next meeting
The next meeting will take place on March 21st, 2018 at 21:00 UTC in the #core Slack 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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