Dev Chat agenda for January 5, 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.

The weekly developers chat meeting will be held at 20:00 UTC in the #core channel on Slack. All welcome.

Summary from the last dev chat meeting.

1. Welcome

2. Announcements

Trunk is now open for 6.0-alpha, which means 6.0 is now underway!

WordPress 5.9 Release Candidate 1 is available. Please download and test! You can reshare and encourage others to take part in testing RC1 on social media: Twitter, Facebook.

Help test WordPress 5.9 features

Read the latest Developer Notes

3. Blogblog (versus network, site) posts to note

A year in core (December 29, 2021)

What’s new in Gutenberg 12.2? (December 22, 2021). Gutenberg 12.2 release (5 January 2022)

A Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.: January 3, 2022 and December 27, 2021

The revised 5.9 release schedule.

Join the discussion on 2022 release planning (December 27, 2021 post by @chanthaboune)

Proposal: Approving custom block pattern directory submissions (posted January 4, feedback by January 14, 2022)

Do you have other posts that should get attention in the weekly dev chat? Please add them in the comments.

4. Upcoming releases

@hellofromtonya will share an update on the 5.9 release, slated for January 25, 2022.

Component Maintainers

From now until 5.9 launch, devchat will skip a formal check-in so the group can have a longer Open Floor. If you’re a maintainer who would like to get help with a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release. or share success/ collaboration, please feel free to either comment on this post or in the meeting.

Open Floor

You can add your topic to the comments below.

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webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 1:54 am on January 5, 2022
Follow-ups on the About Page and related release marcomms
The next collaboration meetings are proposed for:
- Wednesday 5 January 2022
14:15 UTC: in the Marketing SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel focusing on social media
16:00 UTC: review session of content to date
- Thursday 6 or 14 January 2022
A later UTC time has been requested, to be held in the Marketing Slack channel – times to be confirmed on 5 January
- Monday 10 January 2022
20:30 UTC: in the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Slack channel focusing on marketing messages about FSE in 5.9
- Wednesday 13 January 2022
15:00 UTC (time tbc) in the Marketing Slack channel focusing on finalizing social media amplification pack for publication

Links to the discussions on the About Page and communications in core can be found on the Trac ticket or to help those new to releases and those shadowing from Marketing, they are also being added to this Marketing GitHub card.

Summaries from the collaboration discussions for the social media amplification pack for 5.9 being added to this post.

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