Editor chat Summary: 25 March, 2020

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting agenda here. Held on Wednesday, 25th March 2020 held in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Moderated by @get_dave.

WordPress 5.4 Upcoming Release

  • WP 5.4 RCrelease 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). 4 was released yesterday (Wednesday, 24th March)
  • WP 5.4 RC 4 adds the Editor packages (Trac: 49688)
    • The editor PR’s that were cherry-picked into 5.4 can be checked on PR: 21083
    • Remaining issues can be checked and triaged on this board

Monthly Plan & Weekly Priorities

  • Revisit March master plan
  • @youknowriad Progress is good
    • Global Styles: We’ve added CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. vars to multiple blocks and more coming
    • Full Site Editing (FSE): still some challenges (Context 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.) and we’re improving the Edit Site screen at the same time
    • Patterns: Thanks to @nrqsnchz we have a dozen patterns on the works and the UIUI User interface is being iterated on
  • Check out some of the Overview issues here for a better outlook

Task Coordination.

  • @nosolosw will work on global styles for edit-siteand reviewing related PRs
  • @youknowriad worked on CSS var support for multiple blocks, Edit Site improvements and PR reviews
  • @isabel_brison worked on Navigation 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. and Triaging the a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) audit board
  • @Johnston Philip wants to help review things
  • @Jon Q has been working on adding more style controls to Blocks.
  • @karmatosed has been focusing on navigation, global styles and triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.
  • @Bart Kalisz has been reviewing some Good first review PRs
  • @get_dave worked with @andraganescu to allow Navigation Blocks to be created from existing WP Menus: PR 18869
  • @michael-arestad works on multi-entity saving and navigation methods within the editor
  • @Brent Swisher will continue working on storybook stories

Open floor

  • @soean asked that we announce WPBlockTalk – a free, online event for all things block editor happening on April 2nd
  • @paaljoachim asked about a progress with the Reusable Block feature. Progress can be monitored here.
  • @paaljoachim also raised awareness on PR 18718 about refactoring cover background controls.
  • @paaljoachim asked if we have a “how to create a PR info area: in the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Editor handbook. Closest match is here.

Post Meeting discussion

There has been some discussion post meeting between @matveb, Pablo Honey and @mapk about the limitations of designing more complex block patterns.

To sum up the way forward is to provide the best patterns we can which don’t don’t suffer from the lack of tools and when we run into limitations to distill them down to improvements on the blocks themselves.

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