Here’s a summary of the #core-media chat from January 9, 2020. Weekly media meetings happen on Thursdays at 14:00 UTC; see the full transcript here, in the Make WordPress Slack.
Attendees: @joemcgill, @karmatosed, @antpb
Upcoming Meeting Schedule
Happy 2020! Because of the holidays, the group postponed chats until Thursday, January 9.
This morning, the group also discussed moving the regular time, so more people can join the chat – particularly people working on critical tickets in the 5.4 release cycle.
Here are three options. Vote for your favorite in the comments:
- Move the current Thursday 14:00 UTC time to 15:00 UTC
- Move the date to Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (this option works well for the three who came to today’s meeting.)
- Multiple meetings, to account for both sides of the world. This option would likely require a push of the currently scheduled meeting to 15:00 or 16:00 UTC as well as an agreed time and date for the second meeting. @joemcgill suggested that multiple meetings not be forced to cover the same agenda items. Some items will overlap where it makes sense, but, for example, if one meeting has cleared the ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. queue, it would be pointless for the next meeting to consist largely of a triage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors..
New Media ticket triage
#48194 – Unregistered image sizes used for IMG tag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) “srcset”
As @joemcgill pointed out: “The problem here seems to be that someone has deleted image files that are still referenced in the database in attachment metadata. Regenerating image sizes ( wp media regenerate ) would fix this problem, but should we only use registered sizes in `srcset` attributes if there are other sizes available?”
#48321 – Hotswapping featured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. with gallery images
It seems the ask is for (after creating gallery) the option to click on one of the gallery items and set as featured image of the associated post. It was agreed by attendees that this may not be best fit in the gallery block 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. UI User interface and perhaps would be better fit as an option within the media modal when creating galleries, images, etc.
The group changed the ticket to ask for reporter feedback.
@karmatosed made another point. The “Uploaded to this post” filter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output., in the Set Featured Image modal, does give the reporter part of what they’re asking for.
#48325 – Additional filter in media-template.php. Let developers hide attachment page link.
@joemcgill pointed us to the code that creates the attachment link: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/media-template.php#L511 and said, “At minimum, I think that template should check that data.link is actually a URL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org before displaying [it]. [Developers] could filter the data that is used by this template.”
WordPress 5.4 Media Focuses
While it didn’t come up in the meeting, notes are a great place for all of us to develop ideas for Media focuses in 5.4.
If you have any media-related focuses you’d like to work on in the 5.4 cycle, and that you’re ready to work on, please leave a comment.
That helps the Media maintainers gather and prioritize the work. Plus, it would be great if you’d come to next week’s chat so we can all discuss your idea!
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