Media Meeting Recap – September 19, 2019

The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on Thursday, September 19, 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: @anevins, @joemcgill , @FahimMurshed, @mikeschroder, @antpb, @afercia

Media Focus update: @mikeschroder has been hard at work on a 5.3 intro post. In it will be a focus on calling for testing.  Coming soon!

Add width and height attributes to <img> elements – https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/6652
Discussion is taking place in this Slack thread. Maintainers in attendance all agreed that this would be great to be considered a 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. and a potential impactful improvement to the editor experience. @joemcgill said, “Realistically, I think a first step is just adding a proof of concept that modifies the save attribute of the image blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. so the h/w attributes are always saved and then see what breaks.”

5.3 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.

#47120Media modals: Upload errors and field information are not associated with their control : @antpb has taken ownership of the ticket and will investigate how we would best inject the recommended code into the various buttons/views.

#47137Insufficient form semantics : This issue was split into two issues (the other below) to allow the overall problem to improve in pieces. Ownership for this one is needed. It’s a bit of a tough issue that no one has yet to see an immediate solution.

#48028Media Library ‘featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts.’ dialogue missing link text that describes ‘opens in new tab’.@afercia said “I think there’s the need to check how editState is implemented in the post frame and what is intended for. That implementation completely lacks in other frames. I think this is for historical reasons because the post frame was the only frame supposed to be used in the “edit post” context.” and @joemcgill responded “The classic editor used the Post frame in most places, rather than the Select frame. Now that most of 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/ is using the Select frame, some odd bits aren’t working the same—just like that other featured image bug you (@antpb) just fixed” @antpb assigned the issue to himself given his recent exposure to the featured image frames. A 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/ issue is needed also to track this change in 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 @antpb is working on that. More to come!

#47144Text inadvertently rendered by assistive technologies – Was mentioned at end of meeting but discussion was not able to be had. This issue is in need of ownership for the 5.3 release.

#47611Media views: hide the “file upload button” from assistive technologies – Was mentioned at end of meeting but discussion was not able to be had. This issue is in need of ownership for the 5.3 release.

Bug Scrubs next week!

@mikeschroder and @antpb have offered to lead two bug scrubs in #core-media next week to find ownership for the remaining accessibility issues planned for the 5.3 milestone:

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 26, 2019 at 1300UTC!

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