Full meeting transcript on Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/CQ7V4966Q/p1597957254000500
I (@notlaura) facilitated the meeting.
Updates
Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. CSS Cascading Style Sheets. Triage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.
We discussed doing a triage every two weeks one hour before the weekly meeting. @kburgoine will lead the first one this week, on August 27 at 4pm EDT!
CSS audit updates
@isabel_brison added the media query counts to the CSS audit doc, the last remaining item! She mentioned finding that the audits were running on .css.orig files which was bloating the counts. We discussed that these and .rtl files should not be included in the counts because they are not authored files.
@kburgoine asked if the audit counts are including 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. editor CSS. We discussed that for now, the audit only includes wp-admin and wp-includes, but the tooling we have can be used for other code-bases. @ryelle suggested documenting the steps for running audits similar to these steps for pulling color data.
The next step for the audit is to update the counts excluding the .css.orig files, and @isabel_brison volunteered to do that in the coming week.
Color scheming updates
@ryelle re-ran the core color extraction steps using the approach referenced above, and the list of unmatched colors is now much more concise. This is quite a useful tool! @ryelle identified that the excess colors were coming from Gutenberg 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/. Since the colors are much more manageable now, it will make sense to go to design for feedback a bit later in the process once the PostCSS piece is in place and we can see the reduced colors in wp-admin (and super admin).
@kburgoine asked if there was any way to break down this task into smaller pieces – it is a lot of work for one person. @ryelle said that later in the process, once we have files with the reduced colors, there will be many smaller tasks such as manual cleanup and testing that will be fit for more contributors.
Open Floor / CSS Link Share
There were no open floor topics.
@kburgoine shared a very slick Codepen that changes the font weight of a menu item on hover, without causing a reflow/jump on following menu items!
That was all for this (well, last) week!
#core-css, #summary
