Hallway Hangout: Issues Triage Extending Gutenberg

In many conversations, the question comes up about what the stage is on getting more extensibility features, hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same., and filters into the 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. editor. In the 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/ GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ Repository, there are approximately 110 issues labeled with “Extensibility” and 20 with “Blocks Adoption”

If you are interested in discussing those issue and how they can be solved, you are invited to join Tammie Lister, Fabian Kägy, myself and others to have an informal conversation on what the next steps are for each issue to move it forward. 

Join us for Hallway Hangout: Issues Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. Extending Gutenberg on November 10th at 16:00 UTC
The Zoom link will be shared in time in the #core-editor channel. 

Props for review @fabiankaegy @karmatosed and @mamaduka