This is the agenda for the meeting. You can read the logs here on Slack.
Focus group projects discussion
Image focus
@adamsilverstein shared an update for the Image focus. The group plans to go through the ideas in this document to discuss the impact, level of difficulty, etc. and generally prioritize our work. Also, in addition to taking some time during the regular media meeting, the group members are proposing a regular second “performance image focus” meeting in a friendly timezone to APEC contributors. The first try for that meeting will be November 25, 2021, at 02:00 UTC.
JavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. focus
The JavaScript focus update was shared by @gziolo. The team is still collecting ideas for issues to work on in this document. They also discussed during the last week during #core-js office hours how to bring ES Modules and Import Maps to WordPress Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. The next office hour, focused on issues prioritization is planned on next Tuesday.
Object caching focus
@spacedmonkey put together a list of related tickets he is willing to work on.
Measurement focus
@wp-source stated that the team has some interesting projects ideas. Now, there is a need for some short and regular sync chat for the focus group members to discuss this project. If you are interested in attending one of these chats, please share your interest in this thread on Slack.
@flixos90 shared some insights about the coordination repository proposal. Here are the main outcomes of these:
- WordPress has historically relied on feature plugins to test future WordPress core features “in the wild”. The proposal here is to follow that approach, however by creating modules in a single “performance features wrapper plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party”.
- By centralizing these efforts in 1 plugin instead of x plugins, the hope is to significantly reduce maintenance, encourage cross-collaboration between different performance efforts, and have a centralized place for any performance-related conversations.
- For example, a central GitHub 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/ repository could be used to open issues with new performance enhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. ideas, discuss them etc, even if they don’t right away lead to a new performance module.
- A single wrapper plugin also can help from an adoption perspective, essentially interested users can install the plugin once and then will get access to any new performance features as soon as they are added – they can then enable whatever they are interested in to try out.
There have been several discussions about where this repository should be created. The main locations being the Gutenberg repository, and under the GitHub WordPress organization.
After a vote, the repository has been created under the GitHub WordPress organization, and you can find it here.
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