Editor Chat Summary: October 2nd, 2019

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This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting on 13:00 UTC, October 2nd, 2019 held in Slack.

The agenda can be found here.

WordPress 5.3

Slack transcript.

Gutenberg 6.6 was released and has been included in WordPress 5.3 beta 2.

Weekly Priorities

Slack Transcript.

The main current focus is still WordPress 5.3. Tasks are being tracked in this Github board. Starting work towards the content-block areas.

Task Coordination

Slack Transcript.

Improvements to E2E stability, needs review – @mcsf
Horizontal movers for inner blocks are getting close – @andraganescu
Progress in navigation 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. – @andraganescu
Media flow component ready for review – @andraganescu
DimensionControl and ResponsiveBlockControl components ready for technical review – @getdave
Custom Gradient Picker is getting closer – @jorgefilipecosta
Progress on icon hover state – @mapk @epiqueras
Look into FSE work and test/review for 5.3 – @mapk
Support for non-consecutive block multi-selection ready for review – @swissspidy

Open Floor

Slack Transcript.

@mikeschroder raised that WordPress 5.3 comes with an update to image uploads: if the server sends a 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 (for example, because it couldn’t finish the thumbnail resizing) the process will be retried. This is implemented in the Media Library and Media Modal, but not in the REST API and Gutenberg yet.

@maximeculea mentioned that the mobile team is running an experiment with styled components (CSS in JS) as a way to learn whether styles can be shared between web and mobile.

@paaljoachim brough up that there is a PR that address some 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/ float issues. @youknowriad and @joen noted that, currently, this falls in theme-land. We should make progress on some refactorings to the block list that are a better approach, leaving the current behavior as it is.

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Welcome!

Communication

WordPress 5.3

Weekly Priorities

Task Coordination

Open Floor

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