Summary, Dev Chat, Jan 8, 2025

Welcome!

The WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:

Found a 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.? Create a ticket in the bug tracker.

Want to contribute? Get started quickly with tickets marked as good first bugs for new contributors or join a bug scrub. There’s more on the reports page, like patches needing testing, and on feature projects page.

Other questions? Here is a detailed handbook for contributors, complete with tutorials.

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.

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

The WordPress 6.8 call for volunteers closed on Dec 6. There will be more information about the release squad to follow soon based on these volunteers.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.2

There is currently no release date planned for WordPress 6.7.2 but @desrosj is planning to review the state of the release this week. You can 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: 20.1 20.0

The agenda post incorrectly identified the next release as 20.1 with a release date of January 15 due to a shift in the schedule for the holidays. Instead, Gutenberg 20.0 was released on January 9 and Gutenberg 20.1 is expected on January 22.

Discussion

Update on the formation of the 6.8 release squad

The call for volunteers date is closed and @priethor had previously been working on providing an announcement. Following the meeting, he shared that he had handed over responsibility to @jeffpaul and @desrosj, who are working to finalize the squad for the 6.8 release.

To prepare for the release, anyone can volunteer to lead a bug scrub of the 6.8 milestone. Looking at tickets marked early would be a good place to start.

@jorbin suggested the PR for a reliable sync protocol for collaborative editing could use more eyes.

Open Floor

@joemcgill highlighted out this initiative to improve CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.’s end-to-end (E2E) tests that is looking for support. @jorbin agreed do an initial review.

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