Dev Chat Agenda for April 21, 2021

Welcome!

The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a 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.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.

Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.

Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

Here is the agenda for this week’s meetings to occur at the following times: April 21, 2021 at 5:00 UTC and April 21 2021 at 20:00 UTC.

Release Announcements

WordPress 5.7.1 security and maintenance release is out
Gutenberg 10.4 has been released

Blogblog (versus network, site) Post Highlights

Blog posts that need feedback

Proposal: Treat FLoC like a security concern – Please note, @helen, lead developer of the WordPress project, has published a top comment about the proposal.

Components check-in and status updates

Check-in with each component for status updates.
Poll for components that need assistance.

Open Floor

Do you have something to propose for the agenda, or a specific item relevant to our standard list above?

Please leave a comment, and say whether or not you’ll be in the chat, so the group can either give you the floor or bring up your topic for you, accordingly.

This meeting happens in the #core channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Making WordPress Slack.

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