Dev Chat Agenda, September 13, 2022

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.

(Update September 14, 2022, 20:30 UTC – walkthrough transcript added to Section 4, Releases. @webcommsat)

The weekly WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday September 14, 2022 at 20:00 UTC.
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1. Welcome

Summary from the Extra Dev Chat at WordCamp US Contributor Day on September 11, 2022

2. Announcements

Any new announcements? Nothing received for the agenda.

3. Blogblog (versus network, site) posts

Canonical Plugins Revisited post (September 11, 2022) – posted by @matt.

WebP in Core for 6.1 post (September 11, 2022) – posted by @matt.

Discussion under Focus group updates (images) in the Performance team meeting about WebP after announcement about it and 6.1 release.

Let’s make WordPress officially support SQLite proposal posted by @aristath.

A Week in Core (September 14, 2022) – thanks to @audrasjb.

Feedback request for Proposal to add a dominant color background to images posted by @pbearne.

Welcome to the new team reps for the Performance team: @mxbclang and @flixos90 (Slack IDs @mxbclang and @flixos90).

Have a post on WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ to share for dev chat? Add it to the comments.

4. Upcoming releases

a) The next major is 6.1.

Update from the release squad and any questions.
6.1 development cycle
Bug scrub cycle

Update on the 6.1 product walkthrough and transcript (September 14, 2022).

b) Minor releases

Update if needed.

c) Discussion on early timeframe

Is there anything new on this discussion?

5. Components and tickets

Are you a component maintainer? Shepherding a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.?

6. Open floor

Please add any items for dev chat to the comments.

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