Editor chat summary: 16 November 2022

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 14:00 UTC in Slack. Moderated by @bph.

Announcements and Links

• WordPress 6.1.1 Released on Nov. 15, 2022
• What’s new in Gutenberg 14.5? (9 November)
• WordPress 6.1 ‘Misha’ Retrospective by Hector Prieto
• Gutenberg Plugin 14.6 RC is available for testing. @fabiankaegy will release the stable version on Nov. 23, 2022

Key project updates

• Navigation Block (new – priorities for 6.2)
• Site Editor & Templates
• Building with Patterns
• Design Tools
  • Layout Option & DesignTools
• Styles
  • Style Engine
• Query Block
• Mobile Team
• Components Team
• WebFonts API

@andrewserong posted an update on the Layout Option post

@annezazu updated the High Priority list of the issues for Phase 2 Customization 

There are quite a few issues, for which designs are available, and they are now in need of developers.

Global Styles

• Revisiting / contextualising pattern categories, and default inclusions
• Make it possible to push local block styles to global block styles
• Global Styles: an input for custom CSS
• Global Styles: Allow saving, importing, exporting, copying from another theme without switching to it
• Style variations for block types
• Global Styles/Typography: Managing font sets

Editor

• Move post/page title to the top bar.

Navigation

• Navigation Overlay – reference as template part.

Templates

• Creating a template: Present the user with initial block configuration options

Should any of these issues interest you to tackle, and you have the bandwidth, you could add yourself as assignee via the project board

Also, even if you are not yet ready to contribute, and some of us have full plates, you can still chime in on the issues and discuss the most recent approach.

Task Coordination

@getdave commented on the agenda post: He’d like to flag this bugfix for the Link UI text replacement. It would be great to get some reviews on it. Dave also has been working with other contributors on the new UX for Editing Menus in the Navigation block. Reviewers and contributors are very welcome.

@paaljoachim commented on the Agenda post: I would like to bring some attention to this comment by @aaronrobertshaw
“We want a means of setting text decoration (including none) on individual blocks as well as theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. & global styles.”

Open Floor

 No open floor discussion topics were raised during the meeting.

Note: Anyone reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment in the post summary, if you can/want to help with something.

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Props to @paaljoachim for review

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