Announcements
Josepha (@chanthaboune) is working on bringing us a 5.0 retrospective wrap up, a project digest, and a team lead interest form. She is planning to publish the retrospective wrap up this week and potentially the project digest soon after in the following week. Thank you, Josepha!
5.2 updates
#46898 WSOD Protection could use some copy review
RC1 is planned for today, with the *target release date in ~2 weeks*
Josepha brought attention a few items needing help:
There were 11 tickets open in the 5.2 milestone but that is now down to 3 as of writing this summary. @pento worked through a bunch the evening prior to devchat and @sergeybiryukov has been lending a hand today. Many of these will be moved out of the milestone, but if there are any still at this link, feel free to discuss or do the next step.
The about page outline will be ready for RC1 and will be final in the final release. Most of text should be in by RC One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta).-1 but it is not “frozen” in this time period.
Dev Notes Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase.
There are a few dev notes that are still in draft. @jeffpaul is working through the field guide The field guide is a type of blogpost published on Make/Core during the release candidate phase of the WordPress release cycle. The field guide generally lists all the dev notes published during the beta cycle. This guide is linked in the about page of the corresponding version of WordPress, in the release post and in the HelpHub version page. and adding placeholders for those. It would be much appreciated if you’d finalize your notes so we can include them! Ideally these would release along side RC1.
Please use the following link as a list of what is pending for dev-notes: link here. If the dev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. has been made, please remove the needs-dev-note keyword. 🙂
Open Floor
Influx in Forum issues/Trac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. Tickets
There was discussion around the continued cadence and nature of Minor/Major releases. @joyously said that she has noticed an influx in forum posts focused around bugs. Joy reminded us that directing folks to create tickets in the forums will help greatly in identifying common bugs. This also serves as a reminder that there are teams for triage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. in both Trac and the Gutenberg 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/ Github GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo that would greatly appreciate the help. The Gutenberg triage has recently moved to a weekly cadence and the times are as follows:
Gutenberg #core-editor triage times are – Monday at 13:00 UTC
Gutenberg #design triage times are every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC
@jorbin punted #46293 as there was no decision made and there is a need to freeze strings. Many thumbs up emojis agreed. 👍
#5-2, #dev-chat, #summary
