Privacy Office Hour Notes: January 16, 2019

The following is a summary of the weekly Privacy office hours that occurred on January 16, 2019. A full transcript can be found here in the #core-privacy room in the Make WordPress Slack.

Attendees: @desrosj, @garrett-eclipse, @dejliglama, @postphotos.

Here are the highlights of the meeting:

WordPress 5.1 Related Items

The full WordPress 5.1 release schedule can be found here

  • At the time of the meeting, 9 privacy component or focus tickets had been committed for release in 5.1 on February 21, 2019.
  • There were 6 privacy component or focus tickets remaining in the 5.1 milestone that needed to be committed or punted by the 5.1 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. 2 release on Tuesday, January 21, 2019.
  • That list of 6 had been scrubbed the previous Monday (January 14).

Open Floor

  • @idea15 mentioned that @xkon and herself have volunteered to represent the privacy team as participants in the cross-CMS privacy group.
  • The discussion was reopened about expanding the Privacy component to a recognized team with more responsibilities. @postphotos had a discussion with @chanthaboune at WCUS. The main suggestion was to make sure office hour summaries and agendas are regularly posted. Clearer momentum and documentation, as well as a larger contributor base, are also huge pluses.
  • Moving forward in the near term, new privacy features are going to be developed as plugins so they can be quickly iterated on and improved. Bug fixes to existing privacy features in WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and newly discovered issues that need to be addressed can continue to take place in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..
  • @garrett-eclipse mentioned that in some recent Trac gardening he marked a few tickets with the close keyword and would like second opinions. Those tickets are #43958, #44161, and #44464.
  • #45999 was created to explore removing the privacy adminadmin (and super admin) pointers added in 4.9.6.
  • Some attendees expressed that they were currently finding it difficult to find time to contribute. @desrosj suggested investigating better ways to divide parts of initiatives and tasks to ensure work continues even when time for contributing is inconsistent or uncertain.

The weekly privacy office hours are held every Wednesday at 19:00 UTC in the #core-privacy room in the Make WordPress Slack.

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