Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 22 January 2020

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 22 January 2020, 14:00 WET held in Slack.

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/ 7.3

@gziolo announced that the Gutenberg 7.3 release was planned to happen later in the day and said, this release includes among others:

  • Multiple performance improvements.
  • A new 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. collections APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.. The API is useful when a developer wants to group the blocks in its section in the inserter.
  • Further improvements to the Navigation block.
  • New experimental blocks for the full site editing.

More details about this release are available on the release post.

Weekly Priorities

For this week, we keep the same priorities as last week:

  • Block Content Areas (Full site editing)
  • Block UIUI User interface updates
  • Block Patterns
  • Navigation block improvements

Task Coordination

@karmatosed

Has been mostly focusing on navigation block feedback/iterations and global styles – will continue to do this into next week.

@retrofox

Has been working on adding the background color feature to the navigation block, it is already merged.

Now is improving the sub-menus design, and polishing the feature.

It is possible to track the progress in the project dashboard.

@isabel_brison

Worked on resizable editor PR https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/19082.

All the tests are now updated, and it’s ready for further review. There’s a bit of discussion on how to isolate the editor-specific styles for manipulation in the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., any feedback appreciated at this point!

@youknowriad

Has been working on the icons package. Referred Icons are all over the place in Gutenberg right now, and thinks at least we should gather them in a single package. Said technology-wise, we still need to explore different options to how best ship them for authors, but a tree-shakeable npm package seems like the best initial path forward without BC concerns. @youknowriad will continue working on a solution to this problem.

@youknowriad is also working on an Extensibility API Proposal ( will share more very soon) and keeps doing heavy triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. as time allows.

@andraganescu

Is working on an attempt to have responsive backgrounds in blocks which have image backgrounds, and doing various tidying up PRs for the navigation block.

@getdave, @marek, and @jeryj

Are working on the navigation block.

@jeryj is improving the UXUX User experience.

@getdave and @marek are working on the ability to Create Pages from within the Block on the fly. Relevant issue and PR:

@nosolosw

@nosolosw is focusing back on the work on Gutenberg. Revived a lingering PR to fix a focus issue in the gallery block https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/14930. The PR needs a technical review!

@jorgefilipecosta 

Since last week:

For the next week:

  • Help to have a “Global Styles” mechanism in the core.
  • Continue the work on Angle Picker and Gradient type picker for the custom gradients.
  • Focus on triage issues. Reviewing PR’s required for 5.4 betaBeta 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. 1.

@mapk 

@aduth

  • Helping around improvements and consistency among various link components
  • Hoping to try to push user-metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.-based preferences persistence (sticky preferences) over the finish line. @aduth referred it would be a nice feature for WP 5.4.
  • Would like to visit some project management automation at some point.

@chopinbach

Is getting up to speed on Gutenberg development.

f you are also starting and are finding any challenge, please share it so that we can improve the experience for everyone.

@gziolo 

Open floor

Template lock active at the post type level, and templateLock={ false } in InnerBlocks causes an invalidinvalid A resolution on the bug tracker (and generally common in software development, sometimes also notabug) that indicates the ticket is not a bug, is a support request, or is generally invalid. block warning

@chrisvanpatten brought up issue https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/11681 and asked if there are any options to move the issue forward as the issue is causing a frustrating experience. The ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. seems stalled without a clear path.

Currently, @chrisvanpatten  relies on dispatch('core/block-editor').setTemplateValidity(true); as workaround to the problem.

@youknowriad said the plan outlined in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/11681#issuecomment-549641097 seems a sensible one. But the ticket is stalled because implementing that solution is a big-time investment.

@chopinbach volunteered to help address this problem, and @chrisvanpatten volunteered to team up. Thank you both!

FormTokenField: Make it possible to add children

@scruffian asked for feedback on https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/19676.

@youknowriad said that while the change is minimal, it would be good to expand on the use-cases. @youknowriad referred that adding random children may not be the best path forward, and asked if there is another abstraction possible, or if the button is something that can be built-in.

@scruffian said @youknowriad ideas are valid, but his thought was that it would be more useful as it was proposed in the PR. @scruffian  is open to achieving the result differently.

Server-side context API

@chopinbach asked for the latest updates on server-side context API @epiqueras is working on.

@epiqueras said the API is similar to ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. context and that he needs a PR review.

@youknowriad and @mcsf referred that ideally, a block consumes from a “contextname”, not a “blockname” and different blocks can use the same context name to expose their context.

@epiqueras linked to a comment providing some reasons where the approach may have problems.

The conversation will continue on https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/19685. If you have any insights on this issue, please provide them as it may be valuable.

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