Dev Chat Summary: May 2nd (4.9.6 week 5)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from May 2nd (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.6 planning

• Decision to push 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. back two days gave us enough time to backportbackport A port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch. all the things (thanks to @sergey for all the work there)
• 25 tickets left in the milestone, aiming to get to 10 for beta, will likely puntpunt Contributors sometimes use the verb "punt" when talking about a ticket. This means it is being pushed out to a future release. This typically occurs for lower priority tickets near the end of the release cycle that don't "make the cut." In this is colloquial usage of the word, it means to delay or equivocate. (It also describes a play in American football where a team essentially passes up on an opportunity, hoping to put themselves in a better position later to try again.) non-GDPR tickets
• Bug scrub tomorrow will be at 15:00 UTC instead of 17:00 UTC
• @azaozz lined up to help package up the beta in Mission Control, process to begin at 20:00 UTC
• Heavy discussion on where to introduce new menu items as part of #43873, four options outlined:
  • 1) All three under the Tools menu (currently how it is in trunktrunk 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.).
  • 2) The settings page under the Settings menu labeled Privacy, and the tools under Tools
  • 3) A new top level menu item for Privacy.
  • 4) Listing the erasure and export tools under Users, and the settings page under Settings.
• Summary of decision:
  • Export and erase tools remain under tools
  • A settings page for Privacy Notice is added to the bottom of the Settings menu.
  • @melchoyce to follow up with feedback on that settings page.
  • @desrosj to create a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for the pointers needed for this work
• Reminder that after beta ships tomorrow, 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). will be up next on Tuesday, May 8th (see: 4.9.6 schedule)
• Please feel free to drop into #gdpr-compliance to continue discussions or if you have some time available to help out before beta.

Updates from focus leads and component maintainers

• The 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 has a callout for help on register_meta, a reminder on the Gutenberg-related issues that need some help, a summary from their meeting last week about those 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/-related priorities, and a reminder on their next meeting tomorrow Thursday, May 3rd at 17:00 UTC focused on the `register_meta()` improvements.
• @danielbachhuber has created a crowdsourced Gutenberg MigrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. Guide to document WordPress Classic Editor customization points and their Gutenberg equivalents, so please help contribute there if you’re able
• The Internationalization team are resuming work on JS I18N, have posted on the background and some options, and plan to meet on Tuesday, May 8th at 15:00 UTC in #core-i18n to continue the discussion and planning

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on May 9, 2018 at 20:00 UTC / May 9, 2018 at 20:00 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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