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Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
WordCampWordCamp 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. US is coming up Sep 17-20 in Portland, Oregon – we will have a performance table at Contributor DayContributor 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/. with Adam
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 October 1
Performance Lab next release scheduled for Sep 23

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WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
- Current release (6.7)
- Future releases
Performance Lab pluginPlugin 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 (and other performance plugins)
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Active priority projects
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There are currently 20 performance issues in 6.7
@mukesh27 for #61847 received enough PR approvals to be committed
@flixos90 committed https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/58975 last week – nig props to @pbearne

The next Performance Lab release moving a week later to Sep 23 due to WordCamp US
@westonruter Pull request for Optimization Detective to allow URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org Metric schema to be extended is ready for review. This will unblock the other PR for reducing CLS for embeds in Embed Optimizer. https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1492
@westonruter ready for review is this Auto Sizes PR: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1476

@joemcgill we’re still working through some details on the approach for incorporating layout info for ancestor blocks and hope to have an update later this week.

@swissspidy Nothing new really from my side since last week. A couple of smaller PRs got merged into GB, and I’m ironing out some build tooling issues. Apart from that, focusing on my WCUS talk

@flixos90 The only news on enhancing the onboarding experience is that we’re going to ask attendees at the Google booth at WCUS to give Performance Lab a spin. We hope that from there we get a diverse list of people, especially including ones that have not used the plugin before. That should help us get some idea on what people consider pain points in the onboarding process.

@swissspidy Performance chat sometimes clashes with release parties (like today). Should we consider moving the meeting on those occasions? e.g. by +1 hour or so. Or not a big deal?
- @joemcgill I’m unsure how many of the release parties for this 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. will happen at the usual time, given the timezone makeup of the team. I think @peterwilsoncc was planning on publishing a schedule for betas/RCs soon. Perhaps something to consider after that?
Suggestion to cancel next week’s meeting due to WordCamp US