5.4 Retrospective – Call for feedback

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WordPress 5.4 “Adderley” was released on March 31, 2020.

In order to prepare a retrospective post, I would like to ask everyone to leave some comments below with things they would like to bring up. To help, here are some questions to ask yourself:

What should WordPress start doing as a part of the development process?
What should WordPress stop doing as a part of the development process?
What should WordPress continue doing as a part of the development process?

Please note that I am looking for feedback specifically on the development and release process.

Please share your thoughts in the comments below! Deadline: April 30, 2020

If you rather not give your feedback in a public space, please reach out to me (@francina) or @davidbaumwald, 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/.. We are available to collect your feedback in a safe space, with no judgement and use it in the retrospective in an anonymous form.

Remember when commenting to keep the discussion professional and focused on ways the process of creating WordPress is either already working great or can be improved.

#5-4, #retrospective

Laura Byrne-Cristiano 11:50 am on April 3, 2020

Create a content creator testing group. Not folks who are devs and designers (much respect for those folks but they have different gifts and perspectives) but folks who are daily content creators. Let us get in there and play around before it goes live.

I appreciate the design team reaching out on Twitter for some poles and opinions, but there’s nothing that matches getting your hands on it.
- Paul Biron 3:01 pm on April 4, 2020
  
  Hi Laura,
  
  You can install the WordPress Beta Tester 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 on a local site and do content creation testing at any time before a release is made.
  
  If you have any questions about how to use that plugin, feel free to open a Support Topic.
Daniele Scasciafratte 12:38 pm on April 3, 2020

In this version I saw more tickets about bugs addressed and fixed since 5.0.
So I think that we should continue on review tickets with patches about bugs.
I got as I can remember 3-4 personal patches approved and this was very thrilling because this doesn’t happen usually.
I hope that in the future here is more attention about bugbug 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. fixing and not only adding new features (adding new hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. for me is a bug fixing).
Another thing we have to continue is doing the refactoring of wordpress and improving the coding standard.

For me stopping the actual release cycle like every 2-3 months that is very few for who maintain a lot of websites, especially if there are so many new features to test.
arena 8:08 pm on April 3, 2020
Hello,

Basically, apply internet standards whenever applicable :
- At least, make is_email() compliant with RFC2822 ( a 9 years old ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #17491 )
and for the record, nowadays, these are valid emails : θσερ@εχαμπλε.ψομ , अजय@डाटा.भारत’ , 用户@例子.广 , ipv6@2a01:cb08:5d3:4a00:d28:3dbf:2a34:305d

Apply privacy by design concepts as well :

In 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/, ability to discard some features such as “/map” or to be selective on oembedders (hard coded in javascriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/.) …

Other tickets :
- Make mails templates with {{Mustache}} replacements ( #49661 has_patch with a complete review of all mails sent by WordPress)
- SimplePie deprecated calls modified ( #43357 has-patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. 2 y-o )
- Embed caching the jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. result in one place (options table) whatever the editor is : There are currently at least 2 different places (options [transient], post_meta), and not fancy formats with modified htmlHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. to have a more interactive filtering (privacy by design #49627)
Oh ! and sorry for my ignorance, but where are the development and release processes documented and described ? i have some spare time stuck at home these days and would be delighted to read from you.

Regards
- Josepha 10:30 pm on April 22, 2020
  
  Hi there! The process is documented here: https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/about/release-cycle/
arena 6:25 pm on April 6, 2020

development and release process : are they described somewhere ?
Anonymous User 5:08 pm on April 9, 2020

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49862#ticket

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