Summary, Dev Chat, May 14, 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 @benjamin_zekavica. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements 📢

A Month in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. – April 2025

In case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a statistical report from the month of April published by the Core Team. You can find more details in the article.

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/ 20.8 is now available

The new version of the Gutenberg pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party is now available in our plugin directory.

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) Focused Bug Scrub

@jorbin is hosting an Accessibility-Focused Bug Scrub tomorrow at 15:30 UTC in #core to help move tickets forward. More detailed information you can find here.

Forthcoming releases 🚀

WordPress 6.8.2 and beyond

The Core Team need to set up a release squad, a plan/scope and a schedule for 6.8.2 (and beyond)

Discussion 💬

Call for Topics for the Dev Chat agenda

@sirlouen suggested to publish the “Call for Topics for the Dev Chat agenda” earlier to give contributors more time to suggest topics. @benjamin_zekavica, speaking for the Team Reps, noted that while it can be challenging due to time constraints, they will aim to publish the Call for agenda 1–2 days in advance and update it as needed.

He supports the idea of raising topics early and will discuss improvements with the other reps. Further updates on this will follow.

PHPCSPHP Code Sniffer PHP Code Sniffer, a popular tool for analyzing code quality. The WordPress Coding Standards rely on PHPCS. for Class FTPFTP FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol which is a way of moving computer files from one computer to another via the Internet. You can use software, known as a FTP client, to upload files to a server for a WordPress website. https://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients. files

In the discussion on ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #63436, it was agreed that PHPCS should not be applied to the FTP class files. These files come from an old external library, and applying coding standards would only make sense if WordPress fully adopts the code. There was also agreement on the need for clearer rules and improved documentation.

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

SirLouen 8:18 pm on May 14, 2025

@benjamin_zekavica I did not suggest publishing the agenda earlier 😮 I know that this is pretty difficult.

What I was proposing was to post a threaded message in the #coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. channel in advance, so people could submit their discussion topics on advance on that threaded post, so when the agenda was about to be published, the publisher could pick from there the topics.

This is by the way, what we are doing in #core-test atm
- Benjamin Zekavica 8:28 pm on May 14, 2025
  
  @sirlouen I’ve changed it 🙂 Yes, we have that option. However, we usually post a ‘Call for Topics for the Agenda’ directly 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/., typically 1-2 days before. Sometimes, though, that’s too late. That’s why we should discuss posting this in Slack earlier.
  - SirLouen 8:30 pm on May 14, 2025
    
    Yes, I saw that in the past, but then it becomes just the night before, and now, nothing. I think it should be resumed 🙂