Dev Chat Agenda for August 26, 2020

Here is the #agenda for this week’s meeting happening later today: Wednesday, August 26, 2020, 10:00 PM GMT+2. Please share any items you’d like to include in the comments below.

  • Announcements
  • Highlighted blogblog (versus network, site) posts 
  1. Discussion on the proposal to drop support for old PHP versions via a fixed schedule
  2. Request for Input: Consent Preferences for Logged In Users (Consent API)
  3. Request for comments on Dev Chat – APAC Edition Meeting Summary – August 20 2020
  4. Timing of release WordPress 5.5.1
  • Calls from component maintainers
  • Open Floor

If you have something else you want to include to the agenda, please mention it in the comments below.

The #dev-chat  meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 26, 2020, 10:00 PM GMT+2. This meeting is held in the #core channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Making WordPress Slack.

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Dev Chat Agenda for July 8th, 2020

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: July 8th, 2020 13:00 PDT.

Also, @davidbaumwald will run 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. scrub right after the chat. Stick around and show off your flyswatting skills!

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

Discussion

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 recap

Components check-in and status updates

  • News from components
  • Components that need help/Orphaned components
  • Cross-component collaboration

Open Floor

Got something to propose for the agenda, or a specific item relevant to our standard list above?

Please leave a comment, and say whether or not you’ll be in the chat, so the group can either give you the floor or bring up your topic for you, accordingly.

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Dev Chat Agenda for July 1st, 2020

It’s July! Holy smokes.

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: June 30th, 2020 13:00 PDT.

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

Meeting Notes

Discussion

Components check-in and status updates

  • News from components
  • Components that need help/orphaned components
  • Cross-component collaboration

Open Floor

Got something to propose for the agenda, or a specific item relevant to our standard list above?

Please leave a comment, and say whether or not you’ll be in the chat, so the group can either give you the floor or bring up your topic for you, accordingly.

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Dev Chat Agenda for June 24th, 2020

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: June 24th, 2020 13:00 PST.

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

Discussion

  • WordPress 5.5 Progress

Components check-in and status updates

  • News from components
  • Components that need help/Orphaned components
  • Cross-component collaboration

Open Floor

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Dev Chat Agenda for June 17th, 2020

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: June 16th, 2020 13:00 PDT.

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

Meeting Notes

Discussion

Components check-in and status updates

  • News from components
  • Components that need help/Orphaned components
  • Cross-component collaboration

Open Floor

Got something to propose for the agenda, or a specific item relevant to our standard list above?

Please leave a comment, and say whether or not you’ll be in the chat, so the group can either give you the floor or bring up your topic for you, accordingly.

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Dev Chat Agenda for May 27, 2020

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at 20:00 UTC.

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

Discussion

Any updates for a possible 5.4.2 based on the list of milestones tickets?

Components check-in and status updates

  • News from components
  • Components that need help/Orphaned components
  • Cross-component collaboration

Open Floor

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Dev Chat Agenda for May 20, 2020

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at 20:00 UTC.

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

Discussion

Should we have a point releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality. based on the list of milestones tickets?

Components check-in and status updates

  • News from components
  • Components that need help/Orphaned components
  • Cross-component collaboration
  • Updates from XML Sitemap, Lazy Loading, 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 and Themes auto-updates, 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/ features and everything else planned for 5.5

Open Floor

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Dev Chat Agenda for April 29, 2020

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: Wednesday, April 29, 2020, at 20:00 UTC.

Announcements

If anyone has any announcement to make, now is the time!

Upcoming Releases

  • Work continues on WordPress 5.4.1 lead by @whyisjake. WordPress 5.4.1 RC1 is out.
  • All the maintainers have been pinged about 5.5. The information has been collected and expect a further 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.” for a status update so the schedule for 5.5 can be finalised.

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

Components Check-in

  • News from components
  • Components that need help/Orphaned components
  • Cross-component collaboration

Open Floor

Got something to propose for the agenda, or a specific item relevant to our standard list above?

Please leave a comment, and say whether or not you’ll be in the chat, so the group can either give you the floor or bring up your topic for you, accordingly.

This meeting happens in the #core channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Making WordPress Slack.

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Dev Chat Agenda for April 22, 2020

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: Wednesday, April 22, 2020, at 20:00 UTC.

Announcements

If anyone has any announcement to make, now is the time!

Upcoming Releases

  • Work has started on WordPress 5.4.1 lead by @whyisjake
  • All the maintainers have been pinged about 5.5. Some replied, some didn’t – please do, so scope and schedule can be proposed.
  • Work for 5.6, aka all-women release, continues. All the women that expressed interest have been contacted. @chanthaboune, @angelasjin, @cbringmann and I will work on phase 2: identifying missing roles and cohorts to organise the team that will ride along with 5.5

Highlighted blogblog (versus network, site) posts

Components Check-in

I have pinged 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. about having a weekly scheduled post to check Components status – @dd32 expressed some concerns about the noise that it will create. I would still suggest to move on with this for a three-month test.

But in the meantime… the usual:

  • News from components
  • Components that need help/Orphaned components
  • Cross-component collaboration

Open Floor

Got something to propose for the agenda, or a specific item relevant to our standard list above?

Please leave a comment, and say whether or not you’ll be in the chat, so the group can either give you the floor or bring up your topic for you, accordingly.

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Dev Chat Agenda for March 4, 2020 (5.4 Week 8)

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: Wednesday, March 4, 2020, at 09:00 PM UTC.

Announcements

Highlighted Blogblog (versus network, site) Posts

Upcoming Releases – 5.4 and 5.5

  • RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 2 to be released on March 10th
  • 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. is now 5.5 alpha

Components Check-in

  • News from components
  • Components up for adoption (Filesystem API and Rewrite Rules)
  • Components that need help
  • Cross component collaboration

Open Floor


If you have anything to propose for the agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

This meeting is held in the #core channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Making WordPress Slack.

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