Agenda, Dev Chat, Nov 6, 2024

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday at 01:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack.

The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section.

Additional items will be referred to in the various curated agenda sections below. If you have ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. requests for help, please continue to post details in the comments section at the end of this agenda.

Announcements

WordPress 6.7 RC 3 has been released. Thanks to everyone who participated in the release party.

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 RCrelease candidate 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). 3 is scheduled for Tuesday, November 5. For specific release times, review the release party schedule post.

Next maintenance release

There are no maintenance releases planned at this time.

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: 19.6

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.6, scheduled for November 6. It will include the following issues.

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.

@peterwilsoncc has requested that we follow up the the following list of items during Dev Chat, if they have not already been resolved by then:

  • Status of TT5 (cc @poena @juanfra), will need to be async due to timezones
  • Status of GB packages (cc @get_dave @kevin940726)
  • Following tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets need committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component. sign-off for backportbackport A port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch.

If we need any updates prior to the release, then scheduling the timing would be good too.

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

Editor updates

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

A reminder that the status of remaining issues for the current major release can be reviewed on the 6.7 Editor project board.

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.

Thanks @peterwilsoncc for reviewing

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