Core Editor Summary for November 20

This post summarises the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda), held on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 14:00 UTC in core-editor Slack channel.

• Moderator: @jorgefilipecosta
• Notetaker: @nosolosw

Weekly Priorities

Slack transcript.

See November Priorities post. Good to focus on these things as the month wraps to an end and start thinking on next steps.

• 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. Content Areas: expected to still be a focus for a while.
• Navigation block (board): is close to get out of the experimental phase into the 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.
• Tightening up (board):
  • Polish to blocks and different parts of the UIUI User interface is continuing.
  • Gradients are coming along nicely.
  • Some progress is being made to the Block Selection Tools.
  • Add color to specific text inside RichText (16014) is blocked by 17617 It’d be good to unblock those.

Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. role for 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/

Slack Transcript.

GitHub has recently created a few new roles with more fine-grained permissions. One of those is the Triage Role that enables people to manage issues and pull request, and well as other actions. There was a consensus that this new role could help onboard new contributors and less technical folks who are not part of the 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/ group already.

Tasks:

• @youknowriad to create the GitHub team
• @karmatosed and @nerrad to collaborate on documenting what it means triagging, how one can do it, and how the group can organize to do triage sessions. Master issue.

If you’re interested in joining the Triage group, please, leave a comment in the agenda or the GitHub issue.

Task Coordination

Slack Transcript.

• More people reviewing open PRs and triagging issues. It’s never too late to help! @mapk @youknowriad @karmatosed @jorgefilipecosta @andraganescu @noisysocks
• Media:
  • A Media Flow Component that can be reused by blocks. Needs review @andraganescu
  • Link images in media + text. Needs review. @andraganescu
• Navigation block:
  • Issue to discuss the use of a top-toolbar in mobile contexts
  • Style variations @karmatosed
  • Fix adding CSS custom class issue @retrofox
  • Move it out of experimental @retrofox @obenland
  • Fix nav menu overflow @joen @getdave
• Misc:
  • A fix to focus on clicking the inserter and the movers. Needs review. @andraganescu
  • Remove clearing the block selection on sidebar tab switch @andraganescu
  • Welcome guide modal. In progress. @noisysocks
  • Landed a refactor to the Layout component @youknowriad
  • Add a header menu to switch between edit and select tool @youknowriad
  • Open a PR about aligning the styles of our Dropdown components @youknowriad
  • Keep an eye on WP 5.3 regressions. So far, @youknowriad reported (and fixed):
    • One JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. error that can be triggered by some plugins (fix in the work)
    • Scrolling issue in Microsoft Edge
  • Dove into a bit of full-site editing page switching concepts. @mapk
  • Support on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ forums @jorgefilipecosta

If you’re reading this asynchronously, please, add your notes as comments.

Open Floor

Slack Transcript.

Welcome feedback on this exploration of hover/selection states for Full Site Editing concepts by @shaunandrews

Request For Comments experiment. A few months ago Gutenberg started doing a RFC for major features following this post. @youknowriad noted that it didn’t get as much traction as expected. Many agreed. To close this experiment and the open RFCs is being considered.

If you have any feedback about the RFC experiment, please, comment on this post or reach out to people involved. Feedback channels will be opened until next week when a decission will be made.

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