Auto-updates feature meeting summary: June 9, 2020

These are the weekly notes for the WP Auto-updates team meeting that happened on Tuesday June 9, 2020. You can read the full transcript on the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-auto-updates 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/. channel.

Reminder: WP Auto-updates Feature has been merged into WordPress Core so any 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. report or enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. request should happen on Core Trac.

Update on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets

Some tickets were recently fixed:

• #50293 – aria-hidden issue was resolved and committed during WCEU contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.
• #50291 – The themes screen link issue was also fixed last week

There are still few remaining tickets to address:

• #50215 – Help Tabs implementation. @audrasjb is going to put together the feedback the team received into a new 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..
• #50268 – Auto-update email notifications. @desrosj is the owner of the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker., but any help is welcome to refresh the current patch.
  Worth noting this ticket was splitted in two. This part will focus only on text changes.
• #50350 – Provide 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 and theme versions informations in auto-updates email notifications. This one was opened during the meeting and it is the other part of #50268.
• #49771 – Double Updated! text blocks when updating theme. This one is not 100% related to auto-updates but @paaljoachim wanted to mention it during the meeting.
• #50280 – Enable auto-updates shows for plugins with no support. This one is actively reviewed.

Next steps

HelpHub documentation

@desrosj mentioned that we’ll need a documentation page on HelpHub. @audrasjb will get in touch with the Docs team on next Monday to make sure plugin and theme auto-updates feature is properly documented on the end users documentation.

@desrosj added that it should be done ahead of the release date so localized versions of HepHub have time to translate it before WordPress 5.5 release. @audrasjb added that it could be nice to open a 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. Trac ticket to follow this task.

Dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. for WordPress 5.5

@audrasjb to draft a basis for the feature’s dev note so it can be discussed and iterated during next week’s meeting.

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