Media Meeting Recap – October 29, 2020

The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 14:00 UTC. Weekly media meetings are now held every Thursday at 15:00 UTC. A full transcript can be found here in the #core-media room in the Make WordPress Slack.

Attendees: @antpb, @sageshilling, @mista-flo, @hongnizzle, @johnbillion 

Upcoming Meeting Schedule

The team discussed moving the regular meeting time to adjust for daylight savings time. It was agreed moving forward, the meeting will be taking place on Thursdays 15:00 UTC time as opposed to the current 14:00 UTC time. 

5.6 Remaining Tickets

#50972media_handle_sideload() does not allow $post_data to override – Currently owned by @sergey and set to reviewing, this ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. needs unit tests at the moment. @johnbillion mentioned that the functions aren’t very testable without refactoring, so the group agreed this ticket is a candidate to move to 5.7.

#41648Alignment issue on media-new.php when browse uploader screen is activePatchpatch 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. is ready to go and @antpb will review and commit. 

#39968Media Library deleting all items on the last page loses pagination/navigation buttons – This has been addressed by @mista-floand is ready for review. It was agreed that this was related to existing changes in 5.6 so it is safe to test and commit before the next 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. cycle.

#51396[Media upload.php] Switch back from grid to list mode reopen the modal. – This is a quick fix for an existing 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.. @mista-flo mentioned that this is not a critical bug so please chime in in the comments below if you have any thoughts on this fix being implemented in 5.6 or if it should wait for 5.7.

Props @antpb for proofreading and final review.

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