DevChat meeting Summary – April 14, 2021

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@markparnell and @audrasjb led the weekly meetings of the WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team, respectively at 05:00 UTC and 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

Upcoming WordPress releases

WordPress 5.7.1

Since no issue was raised after the release candidate, WordPress 5.7.1 was released a few hours after the devchat. It contains 26 bugfixes and 2 security fixes.

WordPress 5.7.1 Security and Maintenance Release

WordPress 5.8

Some blogblog (versus network, site) posts were published on Make/Core:

While it happened after the meeting, it’s important to note that the Full Site Editing Go/No Go decision was published on April 14, 2021.

@annezazu mentioned the latest call for testing for the FSE Outreach Program. This week, it’s about the Query Block.

Announcements and news

Please note that these posts are still waiting for feeback:

Component maintainers updates

General (@sergeybiryukov): Sergey has started chipping away at some long-standing coding standards issues in core, see ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #52627 for more details.

Build/Test Tools, Date/Time, Internationalization, Permalinks (@sergeybiryukov): No major news this week.

Site Health (@clorith): No major news this week.

Menus, Widgets and Upgrade/Install (@audrasjb): No major new this week.

@audrasjb mentioned there are still many Core components looking for new maintainers:

Cache APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.
Database
~~Help/About~~ (@marybaum)
Quick/Bulk Edit
Feeds
Filesystem API
Import
Mail
Plugins
Post, Post types
Login and registration

@marybaum volunteered to maintain the Help/About component. This request was accepted by the Core team.

Open floor

@webcommsat shared that lots of people have been asking about WCEU dates (7-10 June 2021). The community team is looking at how they promote contributing this year too. More soon.

Ticket #53014 was mentioned in both 5:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC devchats. It’s in milestone 5.8. It wasn’t fixed in previous releases as it still needs a 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. and proper testing.

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