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Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
Next Performance Lab release has been moved from December 2 to December 16
Upcoming Performance Weekly Chats in December:
- No meeting on Tuesday December 24
- No meeting on Tuesday December 31
- Meetings will resume again on Tuesday January 7, 2025
End of year Performance Hallway Hangout

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@joemcgill While it’s not a performance ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.. #62046 is the one that I’ve been looking at most recently, as it could have implications on how we approach improving sizes attribute calculation.

@pbearne aiming to do one more update to Image Placeholders
- To the media modal https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/354#issuecomment-2506494681 if this hack is OK
- @joemcgill my question would be whether working on adding dominant color backgrounds in the media modal to the plugin has any real performance benefit that would lead this to be a priority at this point?
- @pbearne it is not a priority but it would nice to finish it now i have worked out how to add it to media model. Adding ThumbHash should be left to @swissspidy client side image code
- @joemcgill yes, as long as the plugin is still a part of the performance lab repo, I think it’s free for contribution if there is something you’ve already got going.
- @pbearne will add some cleaner code. But would like someone better at JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. to look at the replace
- @joemcgill Sure. I’ll respond to the issue and am happy to review a PR once you’ve got something together
@mukesh27 The PR 1683 for Bump minimum required WordPress version to 6.6 is ready for review. I will work on issue 1557 in the coming week it’s quick one.

@joemcgill This week, I plan on continuing iteration on https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1701
@mukesh27 I’m exploring how we can pass the context for Column 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. as it’s more complex then other parent blocks

@joemcgill discuss having an end of year Hallway Hangout for the Performance team in the next couple of weeks
- We could even possibly just use this current meeting slot, but should confirm with @flixos90 what will work for him. I suspect he wants to put together some end of year data, similar to last year, that could be shared on the call.
- To be picked up async on 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/. once @flixos90 is back