This week’s WordPress Developer Chat will take place on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of the Make WordPress Slack.
1. Welcome and Housekeeping Notices
Dev Chat summary, February 8, 2023 – Posted by @webcommsat
2. Announcements
WordPress 6.2 Beta 2 is out and ready for testing. Posted by @jpantani
What’s new in Gutenberg 15.1. Posted by @juanmaguitar
3. Highlighted Posts
A Week in Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (the link will be added when published)
For information: Call for 2023 priorities in the Performance Team
4. Releases
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.: 6.2
6.2 development cycle
6.2 bug scrub schedule
Roadmap to 6.2
Help Test WordPress 6.2
Check the #6-2-release-leads channel for latest updates.
The release squad will be able to share any updates.
5. Help – Tickets/ components
Items for 6.2 will be prioritized. Please add to the comments for any tickets you would like to highlight.
From the Old Tickets Scrub, feedback and testing is requested on #22316 particularly from plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party developers. Also check out the Call for Testing Plugin Dependencies.
Update on investigating a 6.2 performance regression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5.: @flixos90 advises of detailed updates on the this comment on #57648.
6. Open Floor
If you have any items you would like to highlight in Open Floor, please add them to the comments.
– Update on core tables 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. Asia 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/. 2023 taking place this week.
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