Dev Chat Agenda, May 17, 2023

The next weekly WordPress developers chat will take place on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack. All are welcome.

Welcome and housekeeping

Dev Chat summary, May 10, 2023– thanks to @ironprogrammer

Announcements

WordPress 6.2.1 Maintenance and Security Release went live on May 16, 2023. Post thanks to @audrasjb and @sergeybiryukov.

Highlighted posts

Proposal: Retiring older default themes – This post summarizes the current state of bundled themes in WordPress before proposes new support states for bundled themes. It also raises two potential ways to decrease the total number of themes receiving regular updates. Thanks to @desrosj and everyone who contributed to this post.

Release updates

The 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. is 6.3.

Help with components or tickets

If you have a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. which needs some help, do add it in the comments below.

Open floor

If you have an item for this part of the agenda, you can add the topic below.

This post will be updated with any newer items published before the Dev Chat if they are available.

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