Summary, Dev Chat, Feb 12, 2025

Announcements 📢

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Representatives 2025

The new Core Team Reps for 2025 are @francina, @audrasjb and @benjamin_zekavica.

Benjamin Zekavica is joining as a Core Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. for the first time, and along with Francesca Marano and Jean-Baptiste Audras. He aims to get up to speed, gain new experiences, and strengthen the Core Team together.

Forthcoming releases 🚀

New maintenance release: 6.7.2

The maintenance release WordPress 6.7.2 was officially released on February 11 and is now available for download. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release and helped with testing at the release party!

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. You can read more about the release squad, timeline, and focus for this release. For more insights, read the post about the WordPress 6.8 Roadmap.

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: 20.3

Gutenberg 20.3 is due for release on February 19, 2025. For more insights into the latest version, here is a detailed overview of all the changes and new features in the Gutenberg release.

Discussion 🤔

Improving Unit Testunit test Code written to test a small piece of code or functionality within a larger application. Everything from themes to WordPress core have a series of unit tests. Also see regression. Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. visibility

@desrosj shared a proposal to improve the visibility of unit test-related tickets. See more here: #7907. A new tests focus has been added in MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. to highlight tickets where tests need to be added or improved. @joemcgill clarified that this focus is specifically for tickets where new tests are being added or enhanced, not for tickets that already include tests as part of feature work.

@jorbin discussed that Task (blessed) tickets should only be handled by the release squad. If this is not the case, the categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. should likely be re-evaluated.

Open Floor 💬

WordPress 6.8 | Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. update

@audrasjb shared updated stats for the upcoming WordPress Release 6.8 release with detailed information.

Ticket Status 

On the 361 tickets in the milestone:

• 160 tickets are closed as fixed
• 201 tickets are still open (14 of them were reopened for further fixes)

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Ticket Types

On the 361 tickets in the milestone:

• 194 are bugfixes
• 132 are enhancements
• 24 are blessed tasks
• 11 are feature requests

@audrasjb shared key updates on open tickets:

• 1 high-priority ticket: #62503
• Out of the 201 open tickets:
  • 9 have the ‘commit’ keyword
  • 7 have the ‘early’ keyword

@audrasjb encourages committers involved in version 6.8 to commit tickets that are ready. A Trac report for commit-ready tickets has been shared. Starting tomorrow, tickets with the early keyword will be moved to milestone 6.9, and a Trac report for those tickets is also available. A milestone for WordPress 6.9 was created on February 11, during the latest accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) scrub.