CSS Chat Summary: 27 May 2021

Welcome!

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The meeting took place here on Slack. @notlaura facilitated and @danfarrow wrote up these notes

Housekeeping

@sabernhardt offered to run next week’s 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. scrub (03 June @ 20:00UTC) – thanks!

Project updates

Color Scheming (#49999)

The previously discussed next steps are:
- Start writing naming documentation in a Google doc
- Review / experiment / iterate in @ryelle’s PR
- Update doc draft as standards emerge
@danfarrow created a public shared document in which to start an outline document from the notes describing the naming approach

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Audit (#49582) & CSS deprecation path (#53070)

@danfarrow is making progress on fixing the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ actions issue which arose last week
@notlaura intends to add a link to the repo into the Best Practices section of the CSS Coding Standards page

Open floor / CSS link share

@ryelle mentioned that 5.8 is in feature freeze now, so only bug-fixes be committed. She is still happy to review your patches folks!
@notlaura shared a CSS-Tricks article CSS is a Strongly Typed Language (which coincidentally links to her own fab article CSS is a Declarative, Domain-Specific Programming Language)

Thanks everyone!

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