Dev Chat Agenda – June 11, 2025

Announcements 📢

• WordCamp Europe 2025 | Recap of the event
• What’s new in Gutenberg 20.4 and 20.5?
• 🆕 What’s new in Gutenberg 20.6 and 20.7?
• 🆕 What’s new in Gutenberg 20.8 and 20.9?
• 🆕 What’s new in Gutenberg 21.0? (11 June)

Forthcoming releases 🚀

WordPress 6.8.2 and beyond

• The CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team is putting together a squad for future minor releases. A release squad for 6.8.2 and 6.8.3 will be announced soon.

Discussions 💬

The discussion section of the agenda is for discussing important topics affecting the upcoming release or larger initiatives that impact the Core Team. To nominate a topic for discussion, please leave a comment on this agenda with a summary of the topic, any relevant links that will help people get context for the discussion, and what kind of feedback you are looking for from others participating in the discussion.

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

• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49442 mentioned by @justlevine

Misc Topics

Bottlenecks when publishing posts. Mentioned by @justlevine 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/.. Proposed solutions:

• Create a list of reviewers with publishing privileges so an author knows who to contact to move things forward once the post has been peer-reviewed.
• Create a list of volunteer authors who can help with drafts. For example: 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 Manager could fulfil their responsibility by tagging those volunteers.
• Create a GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ action from wordpress/gutenberg that triggers a Slack message to Core on Gutenberg release.
  • This solution can also automate a message about rc1 in Slack tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) volunteers in #core-editor 

@jorbin replied that there might be consent issues and it’s also hard to predict who is active on a day in/day out basis. Starting from a message in #core or #core-editor for someone with publish permissions to review and publish could be enough.

To be discussed 🙂

Open floor  🎙️

Any topic can be raised for discussion in the comments, as well as requests for assistance on tickets. Tickets in the milestone for the next major or maintenance release will be prioritized.

Please include details of tickets / PRs and the links in the comments, and indicate whether you intend to be available during the meeting for discussion or will be async.