Agenda, Dev Chat, Dec 18, 2024

Announcements

The Nominations for 2025’s Core Team Reps are now open! Please nominate people in the comments of that post. Self-nominations are welcome. The deadline is January 31, 2025.

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. The call for volunteers for the 6.8 release squad closed on Dec 6 and the release squad will be put together soon based on these volunteers.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.2

There is currently no release date planned for WordPress 6.7.2. Review the next minor release milestone.

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: 19.9

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.9, scheduled for December 18. 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.

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

• Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2025 Edition

Editor Updates

Props to @annezazu for putting this list of updates together:

• Please share Feedback on adoption approach for exposing the Style Book for Classic themes. This needs community feedback early well ahead of WordPress 6.8 so we can find the right approach for opt in/out for the Style book for classic themes.
• 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. Bindings: iteration issue has been opened for WordPress 6.8.
• Block HooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same.: a PR was merged that brings block hooks to post content, expanding the initial version that applied just to templates.
• Components: new issue opened to unify all the different box control components that we have in the code base.
• Responsive controls: Please chime in on Columns: add min and max width settings for responsive control to share feedback about what you’d like to see here. In particular, it would be helpful to have some folks explain how you would achieve this with regular CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. to get a clearer idea of what settings/block supports need to be implemented.
• Standardize Block Inspector Settings to use ToolsPanel is underway with loads of new issues opened to better unify how we group controls, opting to use ToolsPanel over the prior PanelBody.
• Style book: PR opened to add button interactive states in the Style book, progressively expanding how valuable the Style book is! And a new icon is being explored by design in Revisit the Style Book icon.
• Zoom out: Replace Starter Content modal with inserter panel PR continues to progress, utilizing zoom out for new page creation.

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.