1. Introduction and welcome
Start of the meeting on the #core channel of the WordPress Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.
@marybaum led this extra WordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US Contributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. Developers Chat in-person and virtual on this agenda.
A huge welcome to our new WordCamp US contributors to core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.!
2. Announcements
Gutenberg 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/ 14.1 RC1 will land September 13. 14.1 will be the last version that merges into WordPress 6.1. More details in this Editor chat summary.
3. Blog (versus network, site) posts of note
Block-based template parts for Classic themes – highlighted in the core-editor meeting
Improving DevHub code references
A week in Core, September 5, 2022 – thanks to @audrasjb
Ending security updates for WordPress versions older than 4.0
Thanks to dev chat cohost, @webcommsat for the links and running a dev chat check-in at the usual meeting time in core on Wednesday. Summary from the check-in are in the comments on this post.
Summary from last week’s dev chat on August 31, 2022 – Props to @webcommsat for doing the notes, @marybaum and @costdev for review.
WordPress 6.1 Release Product Walk-through, Thursday September 13, 2022, 16:00 UTC. All welcome to join. The zoom link will be shared before the event.
Block-based template parts for Classic themes – highlighted in the core-editor meeting.
Add a dominant color background to images proposal – shared in the Performance team last week.
4. Upcoming releases
The next major is 6.1. Bug scrubs are happening on schedule.
The next minor will be 6.0.3, if tickets show there is a need for it.
5. Components and tickets
@costdev raised an enhancement ticket on Trac to revise the ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. screen. Link to the discussion on Slack.
And in honor of #WCUS, @jorbin raised a good first bug 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. in #56547.
6. Open floor
@matt highlighted two core blog posts.
WebP in Core for 6.1
Canonical Plugins Revisited
Nothing else was raised during the session. If anyone has items to add, please do so in comments.
The next dev chat will take place on Wednesday September 15, 2022, at 20:00 UTC
Props to @dpotter05, @leeseoftbc, @rcorrales, and @leeseoftbc for finding out about dev chat and for learning about writing the summaries, to @marybaum for leading the meeting.
Props to @webcommsat for editing the post, and to all those who attended,
helped or supported core tables on Slack or in person
#dev-chat, #summary
