Dev chat agenda, June 22, 2022

The weekly meeting of the developers chat will be held in the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 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/. at 20:00 UTC.

1. Announcements

GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 13.5 lands Wednesday afternoon!

2. Blogblog (versus network, site) posts of note

A Week in Core, from @audrasjb

@matveb‘s post on the Admin experience

What’s new in Gutenberg 13.5? (link to come, since the pluginPlugin 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 lands Wednesday at about dev chat time)

Discussion: on disallow assignments in conditions and remove the Yoda condition requirement for PHP. This discussion started on the WordPress Coding Standards (WPCS) repo.

A roadmap to 6.1, also from @matveb

And a YouTube show on FSE and themes.

3. Upcoming releases

The next major is 6.1. @costdev is running early 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. scrubs: the schedule.

The next minor is 6.0.1. Some tasks for the editor.

4. Open Floor

Are you a component maintainer? Your report, or any ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. you need eyes on, comes before other items. Especially if you add a comment below!

After components and tickets, the floor is open. If you’re not going to be at the meeting, please say so in your comment, and the facilitators will bring up your item for you. Are there are areas you would like help with or tickets you wish to highlight.

Thanks to @webcommsat for contributing to this agenda.

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