Editor chat summary: 14 August 2019

This post summarizes for the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 1300 UTC held in Slack.

The agenda can be found here.

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/ 6.3 

  • @riad noted that this release is a very important release in terms of AccessibilityAccessibility 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) because it introduces the Navigation Mode

Priorities for next week

Please don’t hesitate to help there. Provide a11yAccessibility 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) and design feedback. Help with tests… Let’s move these forward.

Task Coordination

  • @swissspidy is on non-consecutive block selection and improving the eslint-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 (16789)
  • @mapk helps testing 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. screens, is working on the grid system, replace image interaction and helps issues with Tips
  • @youknowriad is  fixing experiments settings 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. bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. adding a caption to the gallery block.
  • @karmatosed is keeping the triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. fires burning
  • @brentswisher needs some eyes on https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/15757
  • @danr is working on table block’s keyboard navigation, now ready for review (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/16957) and also looked a bit into issues with 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/ actions, have made some quick fixes (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/17002).
  • @getdave has been working on implementing standardised UIs for I’ve been working on implementing standardised UIs for responsive controls https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/16790 and dimension (aka “spacing”) controls https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/16791
  • @andraganescu works on the media flow component, improving the inserter for inner blocks, unifying the heading toolbar controls
  • @gziolo spent a big chunk of time working on improvements around packages  

Based on the links in Task Coordination, Riad extracted a list of PRs where feedback is needed:

Open Floor

There was a discussion about new coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blocks being developed. The central idea is that some ideas, while good, are low priority, for example the gists block or the multi select dropdown.

Riad explained that the ideas for the blocks themselves are good but “we added components as we needed them in Core and Core blocks. Doesn’t mean we can’t add components for third-party authors if they prove to be useful for a lot of persons but we’d need contributors to champion these”

There is also a list of new blocks that are high priority and considered “blessed tasks” and the list includes: icons, menu, social icons, divider and other Full site editing related blocks (site title, post title, post categories).


Note: Anyone reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment if you can/want to help with something.

The agenda for the next meeting, 21 August 2019 13:00 UTC is here, please add anything you want to discuss.

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