Dev Chat Summary: May 30th (4.9.7 week 2)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from May 30th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.7 planning

  • No pressing need for quick 4.9.7 release, so aiming for ~6-8 week release cycle for 4.9.7
  • Leads nominated so far: @sergeybiryukov able to help as deputy (e.g., committing, backporting); @danieltj, @desrosj, and @tristangemus open to help contribute during 4.9.7
  • Please comment on this post, pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @jeffpaul, or comment during the next dev chat for nominations (self or otherwise) for release leads on 4.9.7

Updates from focus leads and component maintainers

  • The PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher team posted a summary from their meeting last week covering the “Upgrade PHP” page and possible 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/ blocks. Please join them this coming Monday, June 4th at 15:00 UTC in #core-php
  • The GDPR Compliance team met earlier today and of note will be changing the 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 and post tags to CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Privacy this Friday, June 1st. Please join them next Wednesday, June 6th at 15:00 UTC in #core-privacy

Guidelines for fixing coding standard violations

  • Now that r42343 has landed, Core is accepting patches to fix coding standards (CS) violations. The meeting attendees agreed on the following guidelines:
    • Patches for any CS fixes are welcome, as long as they’re not so extensive that it would require refreshing an unreasonable amount of regular patches.
    • In order to avoid wasting time, patches for violations which cannot be automatically fixed by `phpcbf` should be given preference over ones that can be automatically fixed.
    • Regardless of many files are touched in a CS 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., the corresponding commits should be limited to fixing a single file in each commit.
    • CS patches should be treated just like any other patch, and reviewed critically before being committed. That also applies to any changes made by `phpcbf`.
    • Commits for new features, 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. fixes, and other “logic” changes should not include unrelated CS fixes. Coding standards fixes should be done in a separate commit. If a line is already being changed to fix a bug, etc, then it should have CS violations fixed at the same time. If fixing the violation for that line would introduce changes beyond that line, though, then the CS fixes should be done in a separate commit.
  • Does anyone strongly object to those, before they’re added to Handbook?

General announcements

  • @danieltj has begun a proposal draft for Dark Mode on 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 be the repository owner. https://github.com/ and is open to help, so please review if you’re interested/available
  • @mikeschinkel looking for feedback on #12955
  • @jeremyfelt looking for another +1 from somebody who tests out the patch on #44240
  • @yguez looking for feedback on patch on #44094

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on June 6, 2018 at 20:00 UTC / June 6, 2018 at 20:00 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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