Dev Chat Summary & Call for Release Lead Nominations: August 01, 2018 (4.9.8 week 5)

This post summarizes the weekly dev chat meeting held Wednesday, July 18, 2018 (agenda | Slack archive).

4.9.8 Release

4.9.9 Road Map

  • Rumors of a v. quick release (like next week) for 4.9.9 were squashed. 
  • There are currently 46 tickets assigned to this milestone.
  • See the “Call for Release Leads” section below.

Focus Lead and Component Maintainer Updates

Recap posts within a recap post. Woah.

General Announcements

Devchat Coordination Reminder

@jeffpaul returns next week, thus ending the mighty reign of temporary dev chat leads @joemcgill, @audrasjb, @antpb et moi. Please tell him how truly fantastic we were in his absence.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will take place on Wednesday, August 08, 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 drop in with any updates or questions. If you have items to discuss, drop a comment on next week’s agenda post, so we can take them into account. 

(You can add them as a comment here, too, but they might get lost in the flurry of release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release. noms.)

Call for Release Lead Nominations

Here we go. It’s time to nominate leads for 4.9.9.

  • Post a comment on this recap to be considered. 
  • You do not have to be an engineer to be nominated.
  • Self-nominations are welcome.
  • Ready? GO!

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