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

Announcements

• Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
• The Performance team have posted the WordPress 6.7 Performance Improvements results
• The next Performance Lab release will be on December 16
• Our performance chat time slot next week will be for our Hallway Hangout: Performance End of Year Review 2024 taking place December 17, 2024 at 16:00 UTC we welcome as many people there as possible!
• The performance 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. scrub on December 18, 2024 at 16:00 UTC will also be an end of year wrap up session
• 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

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 (6.8) 15 Trac tickets
  • 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

• @spacedmonkey ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #62658 is nearly ready to commit
• @joemcgill we’ve got 5 marked for early that would be good to scrub later today if there’s time, since we skipped last week
• @pbearne does not yet have a fix for #42743. The issue is that I can’t separate 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. widgets from the others the way it hackedhacked in is the problem
  • @joemcgill Has that challenge been documented anywhere? Happy to read up on it and try to give feedback, or perhaps there is someone else that is familiar with the issue that could help?
  • @pbearne The block widgets are load a single widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. as part of the option. Happy to have others look at this
• @mukesh27 for #58001 suggested we can review the PR and iterate early in the 6.8 cycle
  • @spacedmonkey Not had time to look into this one again. I would love if someone else could pick this one up, as it most just needs unit tests now. IMO

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 waiting on some code review support for Optimization Detective PRs: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/milestone/88
• @joemcgill these and the related Image Prioritizer milestone issues are being handled by @westonruter @flixos90 and @adamsilverstein but please shout if you you all need any support this week
• @mukesh27 the Modern Image Formats plugin PR Convert WebP to AVIF on upload is ready for review
• @joemcgill looks like this PR from @pbearne on an update on Image Placeholders is getting close: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1719. Would be great to get this into the final release of the year
• @joemcgill has a few tweaks to make to https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1701 for Enhanced Responsive Images that I hope to wrap up today and then hopefully we can include another round of updates in this release as well

Active Priority Projects

• Improving the calculation of image sizes attributes (Joe/Mukesh)
• Enable client side modern image generation (Pascal)

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

• @mukesh27 has outlined various use cases for the column block width option in https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1511#issuecomment-2531279775

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

• No updates this week

Open Floor

• @spacedmonkey to discuss #57496
  • Has added tests to the above. I need code review. Can this be added to WP 6.8?
  • @joemcgill I don’t see any reason why it can’t be milestoned if it’s close. @pbearne you had self assigned ownership, but am wondering who needs to shepherd this into the release?
  • @pbearne the code is ready it just need a 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. to help
  • @spacedmonkey I am happy to commit this and action feedback. It doesn’t really need much more, I think it is basically done.

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack in the form of our Hallway Hangout: Performance End of Year Review 2024

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