Tag Archives: 4.9.7

Jeffrey Paul 4:43 am on June 29, 2018
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Dev Chat Summary: June 27th (4.9.7 week 6)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from June 27th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.7 planning

  • Confirmed @pbiron and @joshuawold as co-release leads with @sergeybiryukov and @psykro as co-deputies
  • Likely focus for 4.9.7 to be “Try 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/” prompt and privacy fixes
  • Release timing for 4.9.7 will be confirmed amongst release leads and shared when ready
  • Consensus that release leads have previous contribution experience (not necessarily CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contributions), also helpful that a lead or deputy has commit access
  • Aiming to expand roster of individuals who have experience leading releases, so one approach is pairing “new” leads with “experienced” ones though other candidates could feasilby be experienced enough to not require a co-lead
  • Though no defined process exists on selecting or confirming leads, if someone has concerns about a nominated lead they can directly talk with @jeffpaul if they’re not comfortable speaking up during the devchat though ideally concerns are more transparent or at least leverages a group and not a single entity to coordinate concerns appropriately

Updates from focus leads and component maintainers

  • The Gutenberg team released v3.1 and published release notes as to the updates included
  • The JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. team published notes from their meeting where they discussed sunsetting the packages repository, an alternative to wp.apiRequest, a deprecation strategy, data module improvements, the build process, and inline docsinline docs (phpdoc, docblock, xref). Many thanks to them for continuing to share notes from their chats
  • Reminder to focus leads and component maintainers to try and publish meeting notes from your chats to help socialize what’s happening across the different teams in #core.

Devchat coordination

  • @jeffpaul will be offline most of July, so @joemcgill, @audrasjb, and @antpb will help coordinate devchats (collecting agenda items and publishing an agenda, running the actual devchat meeting, and publishing a devchat summary). post-devchat note: @whitneyyadrich also volunteered to assist with devchat coordination

General announcements

  • @jeffpaul: some comments lately about security issues and the security team, reminder about responsible security disclosures, people’s views will be better received if they’re formed as offering solutions to problems rather than continuing to point out problems
    • @paragoninitiativeenterprises: recent security advisory showed longer ETA than expected, security team needs more resources (e.g., personnel) and it falls upon the community to ensure the security team has the manpower it needs
    • @jeffpaul: anyone who feels they have the ability and interest to contribute to WordPress Security should reach out to @aaroncampbell
  • Effort from .ORG to contact hosts with large amounts of WordPress installs to help manually update sites from 4.9.3, current count hovering over a million sites but down significantly, still working with some groups (e.g., Google search console team) to try to get more people updated

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on July 4, 2018 at 20:00 UTC in the #core 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/. channel. Please feel free to drop in with any updates or questions. If you have items to discuss but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.

#4-9-3, #4-9-7, #core-js, #dev-chat, #gutenberg, #security, #summary

Jeffrey Paul 3:49 am on June 27, 2018
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Dev Chat Agenda: June 27th (4.9.7 week 6)

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on June 27, 2018 at 20:00 UTC:

  • 4.9.7 planning
  • Updates from focus leads and component maintainers
  • Devchat coordination
  • General announcements

If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to the above, please leave a comment below. See you there!

#4-9-7, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Jeffrey Paul 6:47 pm on June 22, 2018
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Dev Chat Summary: June 20th (4.9.7 week 5)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from June 20th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.7 planning

  • Leads nominated so far: @sergeybiryukov able to help as deputy (e.g., committing, backporting); @danieltj, @tristangemus, @pbiron, and @danielbachhuber open to help contribute during 4.9.7
  • Potential focus for 4.9.7 so far “Try 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/” prompt and privacy fixes
  • Release timing for 4.9.7 will be determined after a release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release. is named
  • No confirmed interest in release leads from other team reps and component maintainers or from WCEU, but #design team likely in future minor releases
  • Looking to increase diversity in release leads by asking for nominations or suggestions outside just devchat and summary posts, please share any ideas you have on this… thanks!
  • For those with interest and availability, please review the Releasing Minor Versions handbook page and the Release leads feedback on 4.9.5 post
  • Will look to make decision on 4.9.7 release leads in next week’s devchat

Devchat coordination

  • @jeffpaul will be offline most of July, so we’ll need someone to help coordinate/run devchats
  • So far @joemcgill, @audrasjb, and @antpb have graciously offered their time, hoping for 1-2 more people to help to help share the load
  • If you’re open to collecting agenda items and publishing an agenda, running the actual devchat meeting, and/or publishing a devchat summary then please comment here or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @jeffpaul if you’re able to help out… thanks!

Updates from focus leads and component maintainers

  • The Gutenberg team would like to encourage testing of the next few releases as they get closer to feature complete
  • The JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. team shared an update on the process of adding inline docsinline docs (phpdoc, docblock, xref), so if you’re interested and able to contribute please check it out. They also posted a summary of their meeting covering documentation, polyfills, and deprecation strategy for WP JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. code.

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on June 27, 2018 at 20:00 UTC in the #core 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/. channel. Please feel free to drop in with any updates or questions. If you have items to discuss but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.

#4-9-7, #core, #core-js, #dev-chat, #gutenberg, #summary

Jeffrey Paul 11:43 pm on June 19, 2018
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Dev Chat Agenda: June 20th (4.9.7 week 5)

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on June 20, 2018 at 20:00 UTC:

  • 4.9.7 planning
  • Updates from focus leads and component maintainers
  • Devchat coordination
  • General announcements

If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to the above, please leave a comment below. See you there!

#4-9-7, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Jeffrey Paul 8:08 pm on June 15, 2018
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Dev Chat Summary: June 13th (4.9.7 week 4)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from June 13th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.7 planning

  • Leads nominated so far: @sergeybiryukov able to help as deputy (e.g., committing, backporting); @danieltj, @desrosj, @tristangemus, @pbiron open to help contribute during 4.9.7
  • Working to communicate with other team reps and component maintainers to increase diversity in release leads by asking for nominations or suggestions in their next meeting/update, please share any ideas you have on this… thanks!
  • For those with interest and availability, please review the Releasing Minor Versions handbook page and the Release leads feedback on 4.9.5 post
  • Release timing for 4.9.7 will be determined after a release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release. is named
  • Waiting until after WCEU to confirm release leads and any potential focus for 4.9.7

Updates from focus leads and component maintainers

  • The PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher team posted summaries from their last two meetings covering progress and decisions on #43986 and #44350 as well as the approach for #43987. Join them next week on Monday, June 18th at 15:00 UTC in #core-php as they continue the discussion on these two tickets.
  • The 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/. team would like a coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component.’s review on #38323, so if you’ve got some time then please help out there.
  • And a reminder for those heading to WCEU that Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/. is tomorrow, Thursday, June 14th. If you’re in town, then please consider attending… thanks!
  • No design lead for Customize focus while @melchoyce is on sabbatical until September 10th

Devchat coordination

  • @jeffpaul will be offline most of July, so we’ll need someone to help coordinate/run devchats.
  • If you’re open to collecting agenda items and publishing an agenda, running the actual devchat meeting, and/or publishing a devchat summary then please comment here or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @jeffpaul if you’re able to help out… thanks!

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on June 20, 2018 at 20:00 UTC in the #core 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/. channel. Please feel free to drop in with any updates or questions. If you have items to discuss but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.

#4-9-7, #core, #core-customize, #core-restapi, #dev-chat, #summary

Jeffrey Paul 7:38 pm on June 12, 2018
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Dev Chat Agenda: June 13th (4.9.7 week 4)

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on June 13, 2018 at 20:00 UTC / June 13, 2018 at 20:00 UTC:

  • 4.9.7 planning
  • Updates from focus leads and component maintainers
  • Devchat coordination
  • General announcements

If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to the above, please leave a comment below. See you there!

#4-9-7, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Jeffrey Paul 4:23 pm on June 8, 2018
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Dev Chat Summary: June 6th (4.9.7 week 3)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from June 6th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.7 planning

  • Leads nominated so far: @sergeybiryukov able to help as deputy (e.g., committing, backporting); @danieltj, @desrosj, @tristangemus, @pbiron open to help contribute during 4.9.7
  • Waiting until after WCEU to confirm release leads and any potential focus for 4.9.7
  • Aiming to get someone who hasn’t lead a recent release and (who has prior experience contributing or has institutional backing to contribute to a release) to be nominated to lead or co-lead 4.9.7. Pairing that with assuming we’d get a more precise focus for 4.9.7 would mean we’d try and confirm leads in ~two weeks.
  • Working to communicate with other team reps and component maintainers to increase diversity in release leads by asking for nominations or suggestions in their next meeting/update, please share any ideas you have on this… thanks!

Updates from focus leads and component maintainers

  • The PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher team published notes from their meeting last week covering the discussion on #43986
  • The 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/ team released v3.0 with highlights on the blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. library, child blocks, and theme styles

WCEU preparation

  • Asking everyone to keep their eyes out for tickets that would be worth tackling at WCEU Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., please add good-first-bug keyword in TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.
  • Also looking for issues that need testing as that can provide another option for introduction to contributing
  • Code reviewing Gutenberg PRs, even just parts of PRs, could be a good chance for folks to wade into contributing
  • When reviewing a PR or Trac ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker., even leaving a comment like “I don’t understand what’s happening here, can you add documentation?” would be tremendously valuable
  • If there are patches that need refreshing, those can be useful to new contributors (if the refresh is easy) because it familiarizes them with the workflow of creating/submitting patches
  • Fixing coding standards issues are another good option for new contributors to learn coding standards while fixing them
  • Contact @flixos90 or @antpb if you have more pressing tickets that should be worked on during WCEU
  • Reminder to document any discussions about big changes (such as to coding standards) in a Make/CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. post to share with everyone as not everyone can travel to WCEU

General announcements

  • @jeffpaul will be offline most of July, so we’ll need someone to help coordinate/run devchats. Please comment here or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @jeffpaul if you’re able to help out… thanks!

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on June 13, 2018 at 20:00 UTC / June 13, 2018 at 20:00 UTC in the #core 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/. channel. Please feel free to drop in with any updates or questions. If you have items to discuss but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.

#4-9-7, #core, #core-php, #dev-chat, #gutenberg, #summary

Jeffrey Paul 3:18 pm on June 6, 2018
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Dev Chat Agenda: June 6th (4.9.7 week 3)

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on June 6, 2018 at 20:00 UTC / June 6, 2018 at 20:00 UTC:

  • 4.9.7 planning
  • Updates from focus leads and component maintainers
  • WCEU preparation
  • General announcements

If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to the above, please leave a comment below. See you there!

#4-9-7, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Jeffrey Paul 9:17 pm on May 31, 2018
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Dev Chat Summary: May 30th (4.9.7 week 2)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from May 30th (agenda, Slack archive).

4.9.7 planning

  • No pressing need for quick 4.9.7 release, so aiming for ~6-8 week release cycle for 4.9.7
  • Leads nominated so far: @sergeybiryukov able to help as deputy (e.g., committing, backporting); @danieltj, @desrosj, and @tristangemus open to help contribute during 4.9.7
  • Please comment on this post, pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @jeffpaul, or comment during the next dev chat for nominations (self or otherwise) for release leads on 4.9.7

Updates from focus leads and component maintainers

  • The PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher team posted a summary from their meeting last week covering the “Upgrade PHP” page and possible 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/ blocks. Please join them this coming Monday, June 4th at 15:00 UTC in #core-php
  • The GDPR Compliance team met earlier today and of note will be changing the 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/. channel and post tags to CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Privacy this Friday, June 1st. Please join them next Wednesday, June 6th at 15:00 UTC in #core-privacy

Guidelines for fixing coding standard violations

  • Now that r42343 has landed, Core is accepting patches to fix coding standards (CS) violations. The meeting attendees agreed on the following guidelines:
    • Patches for any CS fixes are welcome, as long as they’re not so extensive that it would require refreshing an unreasonable amount of regular patches.
    • In order to avoid wasting time, patches for violations which cannot be automatically fixed by `phpcbf` should be given preference over ones that can be automatically fixed.
    • Regardless of many files are touched in a CS patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing., the corresponding commits should be limited to fixing a single file in each commit.
    • CS patches should be treated just like any other patch, and reviewed critically before being committed. That also applies to any changes made by `phpcbf`.
    • Commits for new features, 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. fixes, and other “logic” changes should not include unrelated CS fixes. Coding standards fixes should be done in a separate commit. If a line is already being changed to fix a bug, etc, then it should have CS violations fixed at the same time. If fixing the violation for that line would introduce changes beyond that line, though, then the CS fixes should be done in a separate commit.
  • Does anyone strongly object to those, before they’re added to Handbook?

General announcements

  • @danieltj has begun a proposal draft for Dark Mode on 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/ and is open to help, so please review if you’re interested/available
  • @mikeschinkel looking for feedback on #12955
  • @jeremyfelt looking for another +1 from somebody who tests out the patch on #44240
  • @yguez looking for feedback on patch on #44094

Next meeting

The next meeting will take place on June 6, 2018 at 20:00 UTC / June 6, 2018 at 20:00 UTC in the #core Slack channel. Please feel free to drop in with any updates or questions. If you have items to discuss but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.

#4-9-7, #core, #core-php, #core-privacy, #dev-chat, #gdpr-compliance, #privacy, #summary, #wpcs

Jeffrey Paul 1:56 am on May 30, 2018
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Dev Chat Agenda: May 30th (4.9.7 week 2)

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on May 30, 2018 at 20:00 UTC / May 30, 2018 at 20:00 UTC:

If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to the above, please leave a comment below. See you there!

#4-9-7, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat, #wpcs