Dev Chat agenda, December 7, 2022

Welcome!

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1. Welcome

Devchat is for everyone. Especially you! So please let the group know you’re here with an emoji.

If you’d like to keep track, here’s what the group did last week.

2. 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/ 14.7 will drop just as devchat starts.

Voting is open for Core Team rep! The poll closes Friday, December 16.

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

From @audrasjb comes A week in Core.

4. Upcoming releases

The next major is 6.2. The next minor is 6.1.2.

5. Tickets and components

December is a great time to work on your favorite tickets and enhancements, before the new year comes, and the project gears up for 6.2 and beyond.

6. Open floor

Got something to discuss? Add it to the comments!

#agenda, #core, #dev-chat, #meeting

annezazu 7:52 pm on December 7, 2022

I’d like to add to the agenda for open floor this call for volunteers to try out a tool called Replay to capture bugs in a more comprehensive way as part of the FSE Outreach Program. If interested, please check out the following post and respond by December 28th, 2022: https://make.wordpress.org/test/2022/12/07/fse-program-seeking-volunteers-to-use-replay-io-for-capturing-bugs/

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