Start of the meeting in Slack 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. 🔗 Agenda post.
Announcements
WordPress 6.7 Beta 3 was released on October 15. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release and attended the release party! There is a helpful guide here on how to help test this release.
Props to everyone who helped get this release out!
Forthcoming releases
Next major 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 RC One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 1 is scheduled for Tuesday, October 22. For specific release times, review the release party schedule post.
@peterwilsoncc confirmed that the release party times are set to change for the rest of the release cycle to the usual 4pm UTC or thereabouts.
Next maintenance release
There are no maintenance releases planned at this time. However, @ironprogrammer has added #62173 to the next minor milestone for consideration.
Next Gutenberg 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: 19.5
The next Gutenberg release will be 19.5, scheduled for October 23, and will include the following issues.
Discussion
@marybaum raised this question earlier…
Do we want to discuss string freezes and commit processes?
@peterwilsoncc confirmed that after the release of RC1 there is a soft string freeze:
That basically means a string freeze for everything except for the about page, so translators can begin the hard work of making WP available in many many languages on the day of release.
The exception to the rule is that buggy strings can be fixed. A buggy string is one that can’t be translated properly.
There was a discussion about when the soft and hard string freezes could happen, with @joemcgill suggesting: I think giving as much affordance to the #polyglots team as possible during this cycle would be advisable.
On the commit process, @joemcgill mentioned that after the 6.7 branch 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". is cut, all new commits to that branch should first be made in trunk and then backported using the backport process outlined in the handbook.
Open Floor
During the open floor, Earle Davies highlighted that ACF had a security update today that presumably needs to get its way back into secure custom fields. @jorbin suggested #secure-custom-fields as the best channel for these discussions. @joemcgill also mentioned that if you want to report a security issue A security issue is a type of bug that can affect the security of WordPress installations. Specifically, it is a report of a bug that you have found in the WordPress core code, and that you have determined can be used to gain some level of access to a site running WordPress that you should not have. with a plugin 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, you can follow these instructions.
Props to @joemcgill for proofreading.
#6-7, #core, #dev-chat, #summary
