The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on Thursday, August 23, 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, @pbiron, @desrosj

5.2.3 Media Tickets

All relevant tickets have been closed. 🎉 Props @sergeybiryukov on back-porting 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. fixes.

5.3.0 Release Media Lead

Following up on the 5.3.0 Release Schedule and Scope, we were asked to identify a Media release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release.. To coordinate media related tickets.

• @antpb has expressed interest in doing this again, but wanted to open up the opportunity to anyone else interested.
• @joemcgill wondered if this role was redundant with @azaozz role as CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. technical lead, since most of the priority Media items are ones he is already working on.

If you’re interested in volunteering for this role, feel free to comment here, in #core-media, or DM @joemcgill or @antpb directly in 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/..

5.3.0 Tickets

• #47156: Consider a way to clear the wp.a11y.speak() live regions – @anevins followed up and noted that the Drupal 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) team have a similar issue and this might be a limitation of aria-live regions, generally. The plan is to follow up with the #core-accessibility team this week.
• #44581: users without ‘edit_posts’ capability never get informed that their uploads succeed – @pbiron asked that this get moved into the 5.3 release for review.
• #47872: Try to create image sub-sizes again when uploading fails with a PHP fatal error – @azaozz asked for review, noting that testing requires the client to re-try creation of image sub-sizes after uploading an image and the server “crashes” with HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. 500 error.
• #40439: Save progress of intermediate image creation after upload – @azaozz believes this is complete, but would like more testing before closing.
• #47873: Introduce handling of “Big Images” – @azaozz added as a new enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature.. Feedback appreciated.
• #40175: Upload Validation / MIME Handling – @joemcgill noted that this stalled out after 5.2 and with the focus for 5.3 being on improving handling of large image uploads, would need to be punted to a future release unless someone else wants to pick it up for 5.3.
• #35725: Add mime-type for Webp – @joemcgill doesn’t think #40175 should be a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release. for this ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker., but wasn’t sure if it should be in core without full browser support.

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