The weekly WordPress developers chat meeting was held in the core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. channel of the Make 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/. at 20:00 UTC.
Start of the meeting in Slack.
Announcements
Slack link.
WordPress 6.1.1 landed yesterday!
Nominations for 2023 Core Team Representatives are now open. The deadline for nominations is December 2, 2022.
Blog (versus network, site) posts of note
Slack link.
No other blog posts were shared.
Upcoming releases
Slack link.
For those new to dev chat, this is where any updates on the releases are shared.
The next major release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope. is 6.2
WordPress 6.2 Development Cycle. This will be the first major release of 2023. 6.2 is in alpha and tickets are still early.
The next minor release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality. is 6.1.2
Due to upcoming holidays, these timelines were discussed:
6.1.2 planning post: mid-December 2022 or January 2023
6.2 planning post: January 2023
2023 planning post: January, likely ahead of the 6.2 planning post
Components and tickets
Slack link.
a) Components
For anyone new, there is a help / ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. update section each week in dev chat. Contributors can add requests to the agenda post for tickets they would like to highlight. If a maintainer can not make dev chat, they can also share their updates on the agenda.
If you are a maintainer, it is really helpful to share news about your component in dev chat live or on the agenda post. It is also a chance for all your efforts to be shared and to ask for more people to review a particular item.
No major news this week for these components:
- Build/Test Tools
- Date/Time
- General
- I18N Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill.
- Permalinks
- Help/About
- Quick/Bulk Edit
b) Tickets
None were raised.
Open Floor
Slack link.
a) Removing functions during release candidates
This comment on the agenda post was discussed. It asserts that this 10/24/22 release candidate commit (54682) removed the reset() function, and asks for removing functions during release candidates to be disallowed – if it’s not already.
In the replies that followed, it was mentioned that when release candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). methods or functions are changed, developers using them for tests could be sent a warning email, and that it could help if to use function_exists() to confirm functions are still available.
Props to @marybaum for leading the meeting, @davidpotter for writing the summary and to @davidbaumwald for reviewing, and to @webcommsat, @marybaum, @bph, @jeffpaul, @sergeybiryukov, @elrae, @joedolson, @desrosj, and @hellofromtonya for participating.
#6-2, #dev-chat, #summary
