Media Meeting Recap – January 3, 2019

Overview

This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took place in the #core-media 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, on Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 21:00 UTC. The purpose of these meetings are to move priority tasks forward, provide feedback on issues of interest, and review media focused issues.

Attendees: @joemcgill @mikeschroder @karmatosed @desrosj @paaljoachim @tellyworth

Transcript: Read on Slack

5.0.3 Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.

  • #43826: get_post_galleries() should return gallery blocks – 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. needs refresh, @desrosj to coordinate with @tellyworth about landing this.
  • #44563: WordPress 4.9.7 Media delete changes break plugins deleting media via stream wrappers – Also needs a refresh, @joemcgill to try and validate and make a decision unless @mikeschroder beats him to it. Lower priority though, so might 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.).
  • #45407: Add 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. attributes to wp_calculate_image_sizes to allow for proper handling of sizes attribute – Unsure if this patch is ready to land. @joemcgill to investigate and make a decision. – #45615: CSV Mime Type fails upload – @joemcgill and @tellyworth continue working on a fix for this. Might try for a small fix for 5.0.3 and a larger refactor for 5.1.
  • #45633: finfo_file() returns text/plain for jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. file instead of application/json – Related to the above issue. @joemcgill to investigate.

Ongoing Cruft removal

On December 21, we discussed identifying potential places to clean up cruft that has built up over the years. So far, that post includes the following possibilities:

  • Fully supporting or deprecating playlist functionality
  • Removing infinite scroll in the media library.
  • Auditing/updating supported upload file types.
  • Removing old Thickbox code (#10955).
  • Functionality deprecated when WP_Image_Editor landed.
  • Auditing oEmbed providers.

Upcoming 5.1 ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. scrub

As of the time of this meeting, there were 38 open Media tickets on the 5.1 milestone. Of those, 16 are enhancements or feature requests that would need to land before next Thursday when 5.1 hits 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. in order to be included. We’ll plan to do a scrub of this list in #core-media on Slack next Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 20:00 UTC to assign/punt as much as possible. Feel free to come join in the fun!

Next meeting

The next #core-media meeting is set for Thursday, January 10, 2019, 21:00 UTC. This next meeting will be focused on triage and 5.1 priorities. See you there!

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