Agenda, Dev Chat, September 11, 2024

Announcements

There are no announcements this week.

Forthcoming releases

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.: 6.7

We are currently in the WordPress 6.7 release cycle. WordPress 6.7 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. 1 is scheduled for Tuesday, October 1.

Next maintenance release: 6.6.2

The next maintenance release will be WordPress 6.6.2. The release is planned for Sept 10. See the Trac milestone for the release.

Next 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/ release: 19.2

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.2, scheduled for September 11.

Discussions

The discussion section of the agenda is to provide a place to discuss important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team.

Topic(s) for this week:

• Reviewing 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. Bindings UIUI User interface feature, TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticket #61945 – @peterwilsoncc

If you want to nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

Highlighted Posts

• Roadmap to 6.7

Editor updates

You can keep up to date with the major Editor features that are currently in progress by viewing these Iteration issues.

• Design: Advancing the WordPress Design System was shipped last week which is an important post to read, especially when thinking about phase 3, as the aim is to “bring together existing tools like @wordpress/components, the new Figma library, and Storybook into a unified design system reference site that anyone can use to contribute back to WordPress or extend WordPress in line with a shared design language.”
• General interface: a PR is underway to move the Save/Publish buttons to the right of the Settings and Styles (pinned items) buttons as part of a broader effort to ensure the top toolbar shows the most important items in a clear order.
• Patterns: recent PR merged add opt out preference to the ‘Choose a Pattern’ modal when adding a page, resolving a point of feedback around the starter patterns.
• Styles: updated designs were shared on consider exposing the style book for classic themes with some early dev work around how to both address exposing the style book and iterating on the style book presentation.
• Zoom out: various PRs march forward progress on this feature for 6.7 including Double click block to exit zoom out mode and Add “Edit” button to Zoom Out mode toolbar to make it easier to enter and exit the mode along with vertical displacement when adding a pattern. Tied to this, the prior zoom out experiment was removed and a new up to date zoom out experiment was added. Finally, a dedicated zoom control in the editor header has been proposed.
• A PR to enable the Block Bindings UI was recently merged in the Gutenberg repo.

Special shout out to some tasks that need developers as shared by some design contributors. If you are looking to contribute, dive in here.

Open floor

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.

Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and if you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or if you will be async.