The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on Thursday, November 14, 2019. Weekly media meetings are held every Thursday at 14:00 UTC. A full transcript can be found here in the #core-media room in the Make WordPress Slack.
Attendees: @sergeybiryukov , @pbiron, @spacedmonkey, @afercia, @dinhtungdu, @azaozz
Post 5.3 Triage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.
There were a few issues that came to light after folks updated to the 5.3 release.
Issues discussed:
- #48632 : Cannot upload images directly from blogpost – Meeting participants attempted to replicate but were unable. Related issues were #48620 and #48604 in which one of the issues were due to a plugin 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.
- #48618 : Cursor doesn’t default to HTTP 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. box in insert from URL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org – @afercia has responded that this change was intentional per this commit: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/45524 .
That’s all that was reported as of meeting time last week! Thank you to everyone that contributed to WordPress 5.3! It really is a great update.
Meeting Scheduling Discussion
As you may have noticed, the time for the meeting was adjusted for Daylight Savings Time and moved later by one hour. There was some discussion in the meeting around adding a second meeting to the week allowing folks from both sides of the planet to participate. If you are in the AMEA region, please leave your thoughts on when the day and time of the week that works best. This topic will be revisited in the next meeting on Thursday, November 21, at 14:00 UTC
It was also mentioned that in this new scheduling model, it would be desired to move the currently scheduled meeting later one hour. This is of course only if there is another AMEA friendly meeting scheduled.
New Issues Triage
The meeting transitioned to a bug 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. scrub after discussion about scheduling.
- #48562 : Audio keeps playing on closing of media/attachment details popup in WP Admin (and super admin) – This was reproducible via the Media Library page in grid view. This issue has been around since 5.2 also so this is not a regression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5.. Work is happening in the ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. to fix it up. The remainder of the meeting was filled with bunnies and discussion around a fix for the issue.
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 November 21, 2019 at 14:00UTC!
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