@davidbaumwald served as facilitator and note taker for this week’s chat held in the #core Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel. To view the chat from the beginning, click on this Slack Archive.
Announcements
WordPress version 5.3 Beta 3 was released on Tuesday. Congratulations to everyone involved in inching 5.3 closer to the finish line.
5.3 Updates
With 5.3 Beta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 3 now release, focus turns to Release Candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 1(RC1) is next on the schedule just a few days from now. A “soft string freeze” is now in effect.
@francina called for volunteers for next week’s RC1 release session. Both Mission Control(MC) and a Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Committer A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component. will be required. @azaozz and @sergeybiryukov raised their hands.
@karmatosed provided a quick update on 5.3’s About page, saying that everything is on track and copy is being finalized.
@jeffpaul inquired about the progress on compilation of Dev Notes Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. for 5.3. @justinahinon pointed to a Google Sheet that he’s using to organize them and coordinate volunteer authors.
This discussion led to a call for more volunteers and ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. owners to draft Dev Notes. @desrosj mentioned that he’s “… started a page for the handbook collecting the learnings from the last three releases for this.”
@ianbelanger brought a Twenty Twenty update to the group. A PR has been opened to address WPCS The collection of PHP_CodeSniffer rules (sniffs) used to format and validate PHP code developed for WordPress according to the WordPress Coding Standards.
May also be an acronym referring to the Accessibility, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc. coding standards as published in the WordPress Coding Standards Handbook. violations in the Beta Twenty Twenty patch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing., and a call for testing was announced. @karmatosed added that testing on mobile is a great help to the team.
Open Floor
@azaozz mentioned that there are, as of writing, only 37 open tickets in the 5.3 milestone, and everything should be closed out as RC1 is released. This was a great reminder of the tremendous work done by Core Contributors Core contributors are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. https://core.trac.wordpress.org. during the course of the 5.3 cycle, as over 350 tickets were initially open when the cycle was kicked off!
These notes were drafted by @davidbaumwald and proofread by @justinahinon.
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