Sarah Norris 11:14 am on November 25, 2024
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Summary, Dev Chat, November 20, 2024

Start of the meeting in 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. 🔗 Agenda post.

As mentioned at the top of today’s agenda, from today forward, the weekly Dev Chat times will be back to 20:00 UTC.

Announcements

WordPress 6.7.1 is now available! Thanks so much to everyone who helped prepare 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. You can review and give feedback on the proposed release schedule for 2025 on this post. A call for volunteers for the release squad has been published here.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.1

We discussed the plan to release WP 6.7.1 on Thursday, November 21, at 13:30 UTC, according to this schedule.

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: 19.8

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.8, scheduled for December 4.

Discussion

@johnbillion mentioned doing some analysis of how often tickets are bumped from one major release to the next, as there are currently >200 tickets in the 6.8 milestone on Trac. @joemcgill suggested doing a scrub of the existing tickets and moving any that have been bumped more than one release to “Future Release”. We also discussed keeping an eye on how often tickets are bumped during the 6.8 cycle.

Open Floor

We started with a call for volunteers that @bph shared:

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) .

@remy mentioned ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #51525, which proposes adding two new functions, apply_filters_single_type() and apply_filters_ref_array_single_type():

we have a separate repo where we are doing the changes and testing them live in our plugins, but we were waiting for feedbacks before merging the changes up to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

We discussed that it would be good to look at this soon and consider it for the 6.8 release.

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