Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

Announcements

• Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
• WordPress 6.7 RC3 is today, with 6.7 release scheduled for November 12

Priority Items

• 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)
  • Next milestone
• Active priority projects
  • Project board

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

• As it’s 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 today, anything we need to discuss there?
• Looking ahead, we have 16 performance tickets lined up for 6.8

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

• Performance Lab plugin and the following performance plugins:
  • Enhanced Responsive Images
  • Embed Optimizer
  • Image Prioritizer
  • Image Placeholders
  • Modern Image Formats
  • Optimization Detective (Developer Preview)
  • Performant Translations
  • Speculative Loading
  • Web Worker Offloading

• @westonruter posted a comment yesterday here about how we’ll need to bump the Tested Up To versions for a few plugins this week [see Slack]
• @mukesh27 If anyone have moment then please review coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 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. context PR https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/7522

Active Priority Projects

• Improving the calculation of image sizes attributes (Joe)
• Enable client side modern image generation (Pascal)
• Enhance onboarding experience for Performance Lab (Felix)

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

• @joemcgill had limited time the last few weeks, but top of mind for me is to get an update on Incorporate layout constraints from ancestor blocks into the sizes calculations, but seems like we need a list of sub-issues defined that describe what completeness looks like. This PR shows an initial approach, but I don’t believe that PR is enough to close that whole issue.

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

• No updates this week

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

• No updates this week

Open Floor

• No updates this week

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

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