This is the weekly meetings summary of the WordPress Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team. The facilitator for this week’s chats was @peterwilsoncc at 05:00 UTC and @francina at 20:00 UTC. Here is the meeting agenda.
Link to 05:00 UTC devchat meeting on the core channel on Slack
Link to 20:00 UTC devchat meeting on the core channel on Slack
Announcements & News
Upcoming releases
WordPress 5.7.1
In line with the trial for consistent minor release leads for each major branch, all the 5.7.x point releases will be led by @peterwilsoncc, with @audrasjb as deputy.
Here is the expected 5.7.1 release schedule:
- Release 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).: Wednesday 7 April, 2021 around 23:00 UTC (released)
- Final release: Wednesday 14 April, 2021 around 23:00 UTC
@audrasjb announced (and hosted) a new bug 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. scrub right after the devchat.
Note: At the time this meeting recap is published, WP 5.7.1 Release Candidate 1 is now available for testing.
WordPress 5.8
@francina shared some blogposts worth reading, where a new, experimental, release cycle is proposed, and the early bug scrubs schedule is now available.
Core related blog (versus network, site) posts
@annezazu shared that the current FSE call for testing is now open for feedback until April 12th rather than April 8th. Hopefully, this gives people an extra weekend to chime in and share their experience.
@chanthaboune pointed out that the first go/no go date for FSE in WP5.8 is next Tuesday.
@nalininonstopnewsuk shared that it is possible share FSE Call for Testing on social and FSE Call for Testing on LinkedIn.
@francina shared this blog post from the Marketing Team: Thoughts on Marketing, FSE, and What’s Next. It’s relevant to the current release, so please read and leave your feedback.
Component maintainers updates
Build/Test Tools (@sergeybiryukov): Work has continued on backporting recent build and test tool improvements to the older branches still receiving security updates. See ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #52653 for more details. A post is also upcoming on make/core.
Date/Time, General, I18N Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill., Permalinks (@sergeybiryukov): No major news this week.
Menus, Widgets, Upgrade/Install (@audrasjb): No major news this week.
Site Health (@clorith): The only ticket in milestone 5.7.1 was committed in time.
@francina also pointed out the ticket she opened in Meta Trac concerning Component maintainers updates. In the past month she also reached out to the majority of the components and removed inactive maintainers. Right now there are quite a lot of components without maintainers.
The attendees discussed about maintainers recruitment. If anyone is interested to help to maintain a component, @audrasjb pointed out that he would be happy to mentor/explain what he is doing on the few components he maintains. @francina proposed an online meeting/Q&A, like the casual online gatherings hosted by the community team.
Open floor
@paaljoachim asked what is the definition of what can and not not be included in a minor release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality..
@jeffpaul quoted the Core team handbook: “A minor release is intended for bugfixes and enhancements that do not add new deployed Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. files and are at the discretion of the release lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release. with suggestions/input from component maintainers and committers.”
@sergeybiryukov added that generally, minor releases are addressing regressions introduced in the latest release and some follow-up changes to new features, with occasional fixes for bugs from other recent releases, and occasional enhancements that the release leads feel are necessary.
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