Mike Schroder 2:33 pm on June 26, 2019
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Editor chat summary: 26 June 2019

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 26th June 2019, 13:00 UTC held in Slack.

The agenda followed can be found here.

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Props

Folks discussed the difficulty in attribution of work in props due to a manual process being used to collect it. This has caused some contributors be missed in the last few releases.

@youknowriad requested help from someone to research GitHubGitHub 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//WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ username matching.

Folks seemed to agree that the most immediate step would be to list props in the merge commit, which would be similar to the way CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. handles them.

There was also discussion about what constitutes a contribution, with discussion leaning towards the core description.

Many favor automating the process as much as possible, with some concerned that this would include folks that commented in unhelpful ways.

@desrosj agreed to create a post on the subject, summarizing and listing actionable items and proposals. He also requested feedback from those not aware of the topic of conversation or who were not able to attend WCEU.

Themes, Content Areas, and Editing more than post_content.

There was discussion on how themes could best register content areas, and how the editor should best expand to edit content outside of post_content.

@youknowriad created three issues to hold the discussion, with more likely to come:

  • https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/16281
  • https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/16282
  • https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/16283

@matias recommended a focused chat with the themes group, and many folks agreed.

Task Coordination

  • @nerrad Merged refactoring of editor initialization and wants to work on i18n this week.
  • @kjellr is working on design for tips and the patterns 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., and could use continued help with a failing test on 14961 (thanks @iseulde and @gziolo!)
  • @youknowriad worked on end-to-end tests for core (post coming soon) and wants to go back to working on the reordering animation.
  • @andraganescu is working on the navigation block and new media flow component.
  • @karmatosed is planning triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. on needs design and needs design feedback labels, along with work on a settings page for the Gutenberg pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party.
  • @nfmohit is continuing work on adding a link target to the button block.
  • @jorgefilipecosta added a block inspector and global inserter to the widgets screen and is focusing on blocks in customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. this week.
  • @joen would like help with improving the preview component.
  • @aduth is planning to continue work on columns.
  • @brentswisher would like to work on enhancing the publishing flow.

Open Floor

Note: If you’re reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment if you can/want to help with something!

The next meeting is scheduled for July 3, 2019 at 13:00 UTC. The agenda is here; please add anything you’d like to discuss!

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