Agenda, Dev Chat, Nov 20, 2024

Welcome!

The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.

Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.

Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

Notice: This week the Dev Chat time will be changing back to 20:00 UTC.

The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday at 20:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. Please note that this has changed to the original time which is later than the previous Dev Chats during the 6.7 release.

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 “Rollins” was released on November 12, 2024. Thank you and congratulations to everyone who participated in this release!

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.: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.1

We are discussing releasing 6.7.1 for this week, with @desrosj offering to lead the release.

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: 19.7

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.7, scheduled for November 20. 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.

This week, we can discuss the 6.7.1 maintenance release, including which issues should be included (trac milestone, Editor board) and who is available to help as part of the release squad. It’s worth noting that GB 19.6.3 was released on Nov 18, which may or may not mitigate #62413 (see thread)

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

Hello, WordPress Community – Let’s Chat! – Join @4thhubbard, the new Director of the WordPress Project, for Office Hours on Friday, November 22, 2024.
Proposal: Major releases for 2025
WordPress 6.7.1 Release Schedule

Editor updates

Write/Design mode: Work is underway to place “Write mode” functionality behind a Gutenberg experiment to ensure there’s more time for the new functionality to evolve.
Block Themes and site editor: Refactoring templates: new overview issue that seeks to “adapt our mental model regarding these theme-provided entities” to solve some long standing problems, like mix and matching templates from different sources.

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

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 @joemcgill for reviewing

#6-7-1, #6-8, #agenda, #dev-chat

Birgit Pauli-Haack 6:05 pm on November 20, 2024
As I won’t make it to the meeting tonight, maybe you can share this with the attendees?

From the Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) content board we identified six approved topics that are looking for writers. Check out the issues and if you want to tackle a topic, comment on it.

For questions, join us in the #core-dev-blog channel or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @bph (me) .