Media Meeting Recap – August 29, 2019

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The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on Thursday, August 29, 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, @desrosj, @horttcore, @paaljoachim, @mikeschroder

5.3 Tickets

@azaozz requested review on the latest patches in #43524, #47873, #47872, #32437. He plans to commit them before the end of the week.

Chatting About Sizes

@pierlo asked for a discussion on #43524, which is about adding an additional image size.

Folks seemed to agree that it makes sense to add another one, and that it’d be great if sizes could be backfilled in the future, but that’s likely not for 5.3.

Connected to that, there was a conversation about the direction WordPress could take with sizes in 5.4 and beyond. Things discussed included a feature like add_image_size for attachments, delivering srcset sizes based on file size, and resizing after theme change.

If that sounds interesting, you can read the whole discussion here.

Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.

#47215: The media that is “Unattached” is different in list mode vs grid mode — @desrosj was able to reproduce, and is going to do a bit more testing.
#47215: The media that is “Unattached” is different in list mode vs grid mode — @joemcgill notes that this is an intentional behavior, meant to avoid clutter in the media library due to site icons or headers. This may need to be revisited.
#47364: Docs: Standardise the description for image size parameters — @joemcgill agreed to review the ticket and clarify the goals.
#47444: Deprecate the caption field from the media modal — Folks present noted use-cases for this, and @joemcgill to leave a comment.

Triage on unanswered tickets continued after the meeting closed, and can be followed here.

Feedback

If you have any feedback on the above, please feel free to leave a comment, join in #core-media for a chat, or attend the next meeting on September 5, 2019 at 1300UTC!

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adrian33000 3:13 pm on September 3, 2019

A couple of observations/suggestions for images.
1. Rather than adding a further size option why not include a “custom size” alternative for images? This can already be done but requires adding code to a theme functions file. Is there no way to make this a standard option in the media file?
2. It seems it is currently not possible to add links to Featured Images. Is there no way to make this an option?
Francesca Marano 4:08 pm on September 3, 2019

Hello Media Component Peeps, thank you for all the hard work.
Did you see @azaozz post about The 5.3 Challenge? Please join us during the next CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Chat, Wednesday, September 4, 2019, 20:00 UTC to update us about your component!
Thanks

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5.3 Tickets

Chatting About Sizes

Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.

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