Performance Chat Summary: 7 January 2025

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

Announcements

  • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
  • Open floor discussion around this meeting format and changes in 2025
    • Agreed to move to a fortnightly performance meeting in a more “office hours” format from January 14 onwards
    • No agenda will be posted ahead of each meeting, instead the meeting host will follow the format suggested in this document, which is open for comments please
  • Bug scrub cadence was also discussed, but no conclusion reached – we will continue the discussion on the next meeting January 14

WordPress Performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. Tickets

  • @joemcgill is planning to commit the fix for #62692 soon. His concern is that anyone on an older version of WP will still be affected by this 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.. Joe has reached out to all the affected caching plugins identified on the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. and so far have seen mostly that those projects aren’t interested in supporting versions of WP that are impacted by the bug

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack

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