Dev Chat Summary: June 6th (4.9.7 week 3)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from June 6th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.7 planning

  • Leads nominated so far: @sergeybiryukov able to help as deputy (e.g., committing, backporting); @danieltj, @desrosj, @tristangemus, @pbiron open to help contribute during 4.9.7
  • Waiting until after WCEU to confirm release leads and any potential focus for 4.9.7
  • Aiming to get someone who hasn’t lead a recent release and (who has prior experience contributing or has institutional backing to contribute to a release) to be nominated to lead or co-lead 4.9.7. Pairing that with assuming we’d get a more precise focus for 4.9.7 would mean we’d try and confirm leads in ~two weeks.
  • Working to communicate with other team reps and component maintainers to increase diversity in release leads by asking for nominations or suggestions in their next meeting/update, please share any ideas you have on this… thanks!

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 published notes from their meeting last week covering the discussion on #43986
  • The 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/ team released v3.0 with highlights on the blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. library, child blocks, and theme styles

WCEU preparation

  • Asking everyone to keep their eyes out for tickets that would be worth tackling at WCEU Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., please add good-first-bug keyword in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.
  • Also looking for issues that need testing as that can provide another option for introduction to contributing
  • Code reviewing Gutenberg PRs, even just parts of PRs, could be a good chance for folks to wade into contributing
  • When reviewing a PR or Trac ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker., even leaving a comment like “I don’t understand what’s happening here, can you add documentation?” would be tremendously valuable
  • If there are patches that need refreshing, those can be useful to new contributors (if the refresh is easy) because it familiarizes them with the workflow of creating/submitting patches
  • Fixing coding standards issues are another good option for new contributors to learn coding standards while fixing them
  • Contact @flixos90 or @antpb if you have more pressing tickets that should be worked on during WCEU
  • Reminder to document any discussions about big changes (such as to coding standards) in a Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. post to share with everyone as not everyone can travel to WCEU

General announcements

  • @jeffpaul will be offline most of July, so we’ll need someone to help coordinate/run devchats. Please comment here or 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 if you’re able to help out… thanks!

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on June 13, 2018 at 20:00 UTC / June 13, 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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