The following is a summary of the weekly Media component meeting that occurred on Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 14:00 UTC. Weekly media meetings are held every Thursday at 14:00 UTC. A full transcript can be found here in the #core-media room in the Make WordPress Slack.
Attendees: @antpb, @mista-flo, @chaion07, @adamsilverstein, @paaljoachim, @hellofromtonya, @sergeybiryukov, @desrosj
Media 5.8 tickets
This meeting’s discussion focused around WebP and 5.8 Media features.
#35725: Add WebP support – WebP support has been merged! Please test on all configurations possible to ensure there are no edge case issues. Big props to @adamsilverstein and all who helped make this happen! Adam mentioned that a post is in progress that will provide an overview to the new WebP supports.
#52876 Add capability to set default format for image sub-sizes. – This ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. is in progress and adds a new filter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. where people can set a default image type such as WebP. @adamsilverstein has asked for some testing assistance to ensure everything works as intended. Testing instructions can be found here.
#50105: Remove infinite scrolling behavior from the Media grid – It was agreed during the meeting that for the button that moves focus to the first newly loaded media item, “Jump to first loaded item” is a great way to make this not focus on images or any other specific media type and still be clear. @hellofromtonya mentioned in the meeting on the pending count issue, “I think it would be a better experience for users if we could solve it before 5.8 beta 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.. That said, it would be good to get the patch 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. committed and then work on that specific issue as a follow-up.” It was agreed by multiple participants in the meeting that landing this sooner and iterating is ideal.
#37255: Update attachment functions to accept a post object in addition to ID – @hellofromtonya mentioned keeping this ticket focused on resolving the issues that were identified and moving any broader scope to a separate issue to avoid this being punted to a future release again.
Props @antpb for proofreading and final review.
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