@whyisjake led the chat on this agenda.

Highlighted/Need Feedback Blogblog (versus network, site) Posts

A few blog posts and announcements were shared by @whyisjake and others:

• 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/ 8.4 has been released: What’s new in Gutenberg – June 24, 2020
• A date/time has been solidified for APAC specific triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. sessions: New date and time for APAC triage sessions
• @audrasjb announced that @ryokuhi was elected to replace him as 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) 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., alongside @nrqsnchz.
• @jorbin has recently published a proposal on moving git repositories away from master as the main branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". name to using trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision.: Proposal: Update all git repositories to use trunk instead of master. This work is already on track.
• @sergeybiryukov published a proposal to change some of the workflow related keywords to be more inclusive: Rename “invalid”, “worksforme”, and “wontfix” ticket resolutions

Upcoming releases

WordPress 5.4.3

WordPress 5.4.2 has been simmering for a few weeks now, and milestone 5.4.3 is open on Trac.

Right now, the majority of the tickets are related to theme updates, with one regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5.. As there is less than 2 weeks before WordPress 5.5 betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. 1, the main effort is currently concentrated on milestone 5.5.

WordPress 5.5

WP 5.5 Release coordinator @whyisjake shared that beta 1 is roughly two weeks away (July 7, 2020), and there are still around 230 open tickets in the milestone.

@davidbaumwald will bump the remaining early tickets at the end of the week. There are currently 13 tickets marked as early in the milestone. He also shared a general reminder: Beta 1 is the deadline for Feature Requestfeature request A feature request should generally begin the process in the ideas forum, on a mailing list, as a plugin, or brought to the attention of the core team, such as through scope meetings held for each major release. Unsolicited tickets of this variety are typically, therefore, discouraged. and Enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. type tickets.

@desrosj shared a list of all feature request and enhancement tickets currently in the 5.5 milestone (88).

@pbiron asked if “enhancements” to the three feature plugins merged in WP 5.5 are allowed to be committed after beta 1. @clorith answered Feature plugins should not need enhancements post-merge. However, small enhancements can be labelled as 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., for example if the enhancement aims to reduce false positives, like #50437 does.

@sergeybiryukov also recommended to branch the next milestone (5.6) right after Beta, so enhancements and other bug fixes could go to trunk for 5.6 and not loose their momentum.

Components check-in and status updates

@antpb shared the Media team next meeting agenda.

@azaozz asked for help with the Test jQuery Updates plugin. Feedback are welcome ont the text/explanations in it, and with the readme file, etc. The 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 expected to be officially released very soon.

Open Floor

@joyously pointed some tickets that may benefits to plugins and themes auto-updates feature. Her proposal is to add more information to the auto-update email notifications. In the case of themes, adding information from the changelog. @audrasjb to make sure to raise those points during the next auto-updates team meeting.

@carike asked to consider removing coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 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 from the channels that are auto-joined for Slack. It would be less stressful to try to orientate new users in an environment that is less technically-focused and/or not quite as large as core Slack channel. Everyone agreed this proposal makes sense. @aaroncampbell proposed to use a welcome channel that is locked but had a message with the main channels for each group for people to click to join. A ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. is about to be opened on 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 handle ad discuss this task.

#5-4-3, #5-5, #core, #summary