@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 A public benefit corporation and a subsidiary of the WordPress Foundation, established in 2016. 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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