Darren Coutts 1:05 pm on March 14, 2019
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Editor chat summary: March 13th

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting, held in the #core-editor 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 Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 14:00 UTC.

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. Directory Proposal

  • @youknowriad shared the block directory proposal post and raised that the current block registration APIs do not allow for this kind of plugins, and therefore this would need to be be resolved before building the directory. It is proposed that a private 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. is created first for use only with coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blocks to allow iterations.

Discussions are to continue on the above post and the relevant pull requests.

Code Owners Experimentation Feedback

A few weeks ago, a code owners flow has been introduced to 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/ repository. This allows to  automatically 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.” people to review pull requests based on their interests on a certain area of the codebase.

A Discussion took place on the goal for this and whether it was achieved.

  • @aduth raised that one of the goals is to raise awareness and to get more core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org..
  • @nosolosw felt that sometimes too many pings were sent out, and as a new contributor couldn’t commit the required time to review the codebase.
  • @youknowriad feels that the new workflow is not useful for occasional contributors.
  • @mcsf feels that the file paths do not map to the topics that people are interested in.

The new workflow will be kept for now, and reviewed at a later date.

Key Pull Requests

  • Block Management – @aduth is actively working on this PR, some minor decisions still to be made, including wording.
  • Section Block – General consensus is that this should be shipped as an experimental block first. This is hoped to land soon, and will be iterated upon.
  • Block outlines UI – The PR is close to merge, it improves the Block outlines for the hover and selected state. @kjellr would like some feedback and testing on this PR.
  • React 16.8 Upgrade – ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. is going to be updated  on time for WordPress 5.2

Tasks Coordination

  • @aduth @mapk and the design team will be shipping the block management UIUI User interface shortly
  • @get_dave and @danr are working on the section block (and related items) and will hopefully land a v1 shortly
  • @kjellr @joen @mapk and others are improving the hover and selected block outlines
  • @gziolo is working on the Block Registration API v2 and Axe tool integration
  • @youknowriad is working on the block editor module
  • @nerrad will resume working on the effects -> controls migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies.
  • @nosolosw and @gziolo are working on wp-scripts CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. improvements
  • @marekhrabe is working on improvements to the Media & Text resizer
  • @jorgefilipecosta is working on inserter improvements, e2e tests and the widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. screen APIs

The meeting archive is here.

The agenda for the next meeting is here, please add anything you want to discuss.

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