Summary, Dev Chat, September 25, 2024

StartĀ of the meeting inĀ 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/., facilitated by @joemcgill. šŸ”— Agenda post.

Announcements

There are no announcements this week. However, last week many from the community attended WordCamp US 2024 in Portland, OR. If you missed it, or just want to reminisce, several folks contributed to this PDX + WCUS 2024: A Recap post from the week.

Forthcoming releases

NextĀ 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 one week away. The Road Map post can be found here.

In case you missed it, @davidbaumwald just published the WordPress 6.7 Release Party Schedule.

@peterwilsoncc reminded that all enhancements need to be committed prior to the beta soĀ folks wishing to get something in should do so sooner rather than later.

The final release of 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 ā€˜blocksā€™ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 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 for WP 6.7 has been released and the 6.7 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". for the plugin created.

One of the bigger tasks is to get Twenty Twenty-Five committed, so the team working on that is pretty focused this week. It would be very valuable if people could take some time to test the theme and log any issues, create PRs (if able to), etc. To do so, visitĀ https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentyfive. There are instructions in the repo explaining how to set it up and get it running.

Next maintenance release

There are no maintenance releases planned at this time.

NextĀ GutenbergĀ release: 19.3

The next Gutenberg release will beĀ 19.3, scheduled for September 25, and will includeĀ the following issues.

Discussion

There were no discussion topics raised this week.

Open Floor

Cory Hughart shared that during 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/. at WCUS, the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Fields table spent the day diving through bleeding-edge Gutenberg code related to the new DataViews in posts and pages areas of the site editor. @sc0ttkclarkĀ is working on a dev blogblog (versus network, site) post, but the TL;DR is that we want to add some options toĀ register_metaĀ functions in PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher to enable quick edit for custom fields. Weā€™ll be talking more about it in the days ahead inĀ #core-fields.

We finished Dev Chat by reviewing the tickets in the 6.7 milestone marked early.

Props toĀ @mikachan for proofreading.

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