Dev Chat Agenda, March 1, 2023

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.

The next WordPress Developers Chat will on Wednesday March 1, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of the Make WordPress Slack.

Note: the release party for 6.2 Beta 4 will now be on March 1, approximately from 17:00 UTC. Please check for updates in the #6-2-release-leads on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

1. Welcome and notices

Dev Chat summary (link to follow)

2. Announcements

6.2 BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 4 is due to be released prior to dev chat.

3. Highlighted posts

What’s New in Gutenberg 15.2 – Read how the template editing experience has been improved, accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) improvements and additional control support for blocks. Posted by @daisyo

A Week in Core, February 20 to 27, 2023 – thanks to @audrasjb

Core Performance Team Roadmap published

4. Release update

Next major releasemajor 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.

A 6.2 live demo will take place be on Thursday, 2 March 2023 at 17:00 GMT. More details on the 6.2 live product demo – posted by @jpantani

The release squad will be able to share any 6.2 updates in dev chat or async on this post.

5. Requests for help with tickets/ blockers

Priority will be given to items associated with the 6.2 release. Please add items for the meeting in comments below.

6. Open floor

If you have an item you would like to be raised in this section of the meeting, you can add the topic in the comments below.

If you can not attend the meeting, as a global project, asynchronous updates are welcome. You can add these into the comments section.

#6-2, #agenda, #dev-chat

miguelsansegundo 1:40 am on March 1, 2023

Hi all!

For the open floor section, I’d like to raise this four-months-old ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. that has a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. ready for review: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56908

Thanks!
Abha Thakor 10:52 am on March 1, 2023

To add to the highlighted posts section, the roadmap page has been updated 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/ . There are a few additional bullet points to be added under APIs and BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. theme dev tools. Thanks to @rmartinezduque for sharing the link. https://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/
Abha Thakor 2:26 pm on March 1, 2023

To add to the highlighted posts section, new content on Learn WordPress published in February 2023.
Thanks to @webtechpooja and the Training Team for sharing.

Before dev chat, the new posts in the comments will be copied to the agenda post ready for posting in the meeting.

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