Joe McGill 4:32 pm on February 6, 2025
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Summary, Dev Chat, Feb 5, 2025

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 closed. @joemcgill is following up with folks who were nominated this week and will have a follow-up announcement soon.

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. Read more about the release squad, timeline and focus for this release.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.2

WordPress 6.7.2 is scheduled for February 11. WordPress 6.7.2 RC 1 is available for testing. Thanks to everyone who helped with the release party yesterday! 

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: 20.2

Gutenberg 20.2.0 was released on February 5. It included the following issues. For the last several releases, the “What’s new in Gutenberg” posts have been paused due to the team’s capacity. If anyone is interested in helping with these posts, please contact @mamaduka.

Discussion

GB sync update 

  • @mamaduka has been working on fixing issues found when opening the initial PR for this.
  • The PR is ready for another review. There is an issue causing the wp-polyfill script being bundled but is not a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release. for the sync.

WordPress 6.8 Roadmap

  • @krupaly2k was still working on this with support from @jeffpaul and feedback from release squad members.
  • The Roadmap to 6.8 post was published following the meeting.

REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. feedback needed

  • @mamaduka is asking for feedback on this issue related to editing custom post types with non-Latin slugs.
  • There was discussion about whether this should be fixed on the server side or in the client.
  • @jorbin suggested trying to get some tests written that show the 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. in the server in order to help drive a fix.
  • @joemcgill said that fixing server side is a good idea, but if a client side fix could resolve a user issue then we should pursue that as well.

Open Floor

#6-8, #core, #dev-chat, #summary