Dev Chat Summary: September 19th (4.9.9 week 6)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from September 19th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.9 planning

  • @westonruter: highlighted this discussion about the scope of HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. support to target in 4.9.9
    • Looking for wider visibility on those items to get thoughts on what makes sense to include in 4.9.9
    • Relates to umbrella ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #28521
  • @audrasjb: AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) team has a spreadsheet where we sort all the tickets on the focus a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) in order to facilitate lead’s work (see this week’s meeting notes)
  • Bug scrubs not scheduled yet, when they are it’ll be posted to Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

Updates from focus leads and component maintainers

  • @kadamwhite from 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 wants to propose the inclusion #41305 in 5.0
    • This covers altering how we evaluate translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. strings, originally with the intent of deliberating a performance improvement to the REST API. In discussions about how LocaleLocale A locale is a combination of language and regional dialect. Usually locales correspond to countries, as is the case with Portuguese (Portugal) and Portuguese (Brazil). Other examples of locales include Canadian English and U.S. English. can be applied to REST API responses for 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/ this issue resurfaced, because the current order of operations precludes evaluating string translations based on a passed flag (required to permit the APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. to provide translations in a user’s locale). To support these localization needs and to improve overall performance at the same time, we intend to milestone this ticket for 5.0.
    • @schlessera: There are two proposed solutions in the above ticket: one that fixes REST API schema translations only, and one that generally optimizes translations (REST API component team’s strong recommendation). The latter is highly preferable, but includes breaking changes for edge cases (as noted in the ticket), so might need a check against plugins first. We otherwise would like more eyes on the forthcoming 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. to validate the approach and to help test it.
  • The Editor / Gutenberg team released v3.8 last week including “full screen” mode, improved mechanisms for styling blocks from a theme perspective, and exposes the custom post typeCustom Post Type WordPress can hold and display many different types of content. A single item of such a content is generally called a post, although post is also a specific post type. Custom Post Types gives your site the ability to have templated posts, to simplify the concept. used to store reusable blocks from 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. inserter as a way to manage saved blocks in bulk.
  • The JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. team published notes from their last meeting including documentation of available Gutenberg scripts, reducing exposure of Moment.js in the `wordpress/date` module, and a couple announcements on introducing a formal asynchronous data flow as part of `wordpress/data` and the new `wp-polyfill` script added to Gutenberg.

General announcements

  • @psykro posted about alternate devchat options. Please give that a review and feedback, as ideally we get to a conclusion during next week’s devchat.
  • @whitneyyadrich & @dkotter looking for eyes on / update to Gutenberg issue#7762 as they are running into an issue where they need to be able to insert and manipulate media attachments within the Classic Block, but that’s not currently possible
    • Also imagine this being a bigger issue when migrating sites over to Gutenberg and all their existing content will be thrown into that block. There’s currently not a great way for them to modify/add to that content, if they need to do things with images.
    • Will review with Gutenberg team in next #core-editor weekly chat

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on September 26, 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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