Title: Media Meeting Recap – March 23 Author: Anthony Burchell Published: March 27, 2018 Last modified: April 26, 2018 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/antpb/) [Anthony Burchell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/antpb/) 7:20 pm _on_ March 27, 2018 Tags: [core-media ( 116 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/core-media/), [media ( 93 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/media/), [summary ( 981 )](https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/summary/) # Media Meeting Recap – March 23 ## Overview This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took place in the [#core-media](https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/C02SX62S6/) SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform [https://slack.com/](https://slack.com/). The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at [https://make.wordpress.org/chat/](https://make.wordpress.org/chat/) channel, on [Thursday,  March 23, 2018 at 1900 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180329T1900). The purpose of these meetings are to move priority tasks forward, provide feedback on issues of interest, and review media focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.. Attendees: [@joemcgill](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joemcgill/) [@blobfolio](https://profiles.wordpress.org/blobfolio/) [@desrosj](https://profiles.wordpress.org/desrosj/) [@mikeschroder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikeschroder/) [@karmatosed](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) [@antpb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/antpb/) [@adamsilverstein](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/) Transcript: [Read on Slack](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02SX62S6/p1521745285000109) ## 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/](https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/)󠁿 * The best way to follow along with media related Gutenberg items is the [media label in GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/labels/Media). * [Repository milestones](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/milestones) * [@karmatosed](https://profiles.wordpress.org/karmatosed/) outlined a way of thinking for determining priority on Gutenberg GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. [https://github.com/](https://github.com/) Issues. The order or importance should be Weekly version > feature complete > merge proposal. The criteria for Feature Complete can be found at this issue: [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/4894  ](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/4894%20%C2%A0) * [Add mediaelement component](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/5240)– [@antpb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/antpb/) has updated the repo to include updates to the code styling feedback provided. Testing is still needed and help is needed on getting mediaElement to enqueue on the front end. Steps to creating a clone of the repo can be found at [this comment](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/5240#issuecomment-371566435). * [Add block playlist:](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/805) Currently blocked by the inclusion of the mediaelement component. ## 4.9.5 Tickets The next part of the meeting was spent on [tickets in the 4.9.5 milestone](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?component=Media&milestone=5.0&group=task+%28blessed%29&status=!closed) **Tickets needing testing:** * **[#42017](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42017) – Parse the creation date out of uploaded audio files[@desrosj](https://profiles.wordpress.org/desrosj/) has reclassified this ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. as enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature.. * **[#33979](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33979) – Add filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks [https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks). They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. for 'post_gallery_item'[@desrosj](https://profiles.wordpress.org/desrosj/) is looking into adding attributes to the tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) in addition to just making a class filter. We will need to investigate if this helps Gutenberg in any way.  * **[#43046](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43046) – `has_image_size()` returns false for CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. image sizes  [@desrosj](https://profiles.wordpress.org/desrosj/) is researching this one. * **[#9257](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9257) – EXIF GPS dataDue to GDPR compliance, decided that this should live in 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/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can be cost- based plugin from a third-party. territory for now. Lots of great work going on in the ticket, and would be a solid plugin!  ## Next Meeting The next [#core-media](https://make.wordpress.org/core/components/media) meeting is set for [Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 1800 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180329T1800). As both the EU and US have now moved to DST, you'll note the time has been shifted one hour earlier. Hope to see you there! 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