Overview
The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on Thursday, August 15, 2019. Weekly media meetings are held every Thursday at 13:00 UTC. A full transcript can be found here in the #core-media room in the Make WordPress Slack.
Attendees: @joemcgill, @anevins, @sergey, @antpb, @adamsilverman
5.3 A11y Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Related Tickets
@anevins lead a triage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. of the a11y related tickets from the WPCampus audit for 5.3 to try and make sure everything had an owner and/or some next steps to move forward.
Now that all tickets have been triaged, @joemcgill suggested that we keep the latest information in Trac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. so we can use this report to track status of the a11y related tickets throughout the 5.3 cycle.
5.3 Release Media Lead
@antpb asked if anyone was interested in being the Media lead for the 5.3 release. He served in this capacity for the 5.0 release and is willing to do so again for 5.3 if needed. @joemcgill reached out to @chanthaboune in #core following the meeting to clarify what this role would be responsible for (see chat). Essentially, this person would be the primary person responsible for communicating status from the component team and gathering consensus when decisions need to be made. This person is not responsible for completing all the work themselves, but should be leaning on the rest of the component maintainers and contributors to meet our release goals.
If you’re interested in volunteering for this role, feel free to comment here or in #core-media.
5.2.3 Release Tickets
@joemcgill noted that there are several Media issues listed in @jeffpaul‘s 5.2.3 release proposal. These need to be reopened as fixed-major so they can be back ported to the minor release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality. and the milestone needs to be updated. @joemcgill volunteered to handle this.
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