Dev Chat Agenda, Wednesday March 22, 2023

The next WordPress Developers Chat will on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of the Make WordPress Slack.

1. Welcome and housekeeping

Dev Chat summary, March 15, 2023 – thanks to @marybaum

The meeting’s scheduled facilitator will be @francina

@oglekler and @webcommsat are on the rota for this week’s meeting summary.
If you would like to volunteer for the summary, do add a comment to this ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for @webcommsat.

2. Announcements

WordPress 6.2 RC3

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/ 15.4 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). is scheduled (now available for testing)

3. Highlighted posts

Call for volunteers to help with 6.2 end user docs from the release docs group.

4. Releases

Useful information on the next major WordPress release 6.2.

The schedule release is now only two weeks away on March 28.

Also check the #6-2-release-leads channel for the latest updates.

For information:

  • WordPress 6.2 has branched.

More updates from the Release Squad to come in the meeting.

5. Request for help with tickets/ components/ blockers/

If you have a ticket or request to help, please add a comment to the agenda post. Please indicate if you will be attending the meeting live and be able to highlight the issue further if needed.

If you are unable to attend dev chat live, you can add further details of the issue you would like highlighted either in comments, or message CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team reps @webcommsat and @hellofromtonya with the additional information to raise in this week’s meeting for you.

6. Open floor

Items for this agenda item and the previous one are welcome from across time zones. Please add suggestions in comments on this post. Thanks.

Props for agenda preparation @webcommsat, review @hellofromtonya and @marybaum.

#6-2, #agenda, #dev-chat

Performance Chat Agenda: 21 March 2023

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for March 21, 2023 at 16:00 UTC.

  • Announcements
    • Released the Performance Lab 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 2.1.0 yesterday
  • Priority projects
  • Open floor

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

#agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

Editor Chat Agenda: March 22nd 2023

Facilitator and notetaker: @fabiankaegy

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, March 22nd 2023, 03:00 PM GMT+1. This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making 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/..

WordPress 6.2 will be released on Tuesday March 28th. We are in the final sprint of testing the release candidates.

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/ 15.4 will be released later today.

Key project updates:

Task Coordination.

Open Floor – extended edition.

If you are not able to attend the meeting, you are encouraged to share anything relevant for the discussion:

  • If you have an update for the main site editing projects, please feel free to share as a comment or come prepared for the meeting itself.
  • If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.
  • If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

#agenda, #core-editor, #core-editor-agenda, #meeting

Dev Chat Agenda, Wednesday March 15, 2023

The next WordPress Developers Chat will on Wednesday, March 15 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of the Make WordPress Slack.

1. Welcome and housekeeping

Dev Chat summary, March 8, 2023 – thanks to @ironprogrammer

The meeting is scheduled facilitator will be @francina and @marybaum will draft the meeting summary.
If you would like to volunteer for the summary, add a comment to this ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for @webcommsat.

2. Announcements

WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 2 (March 14, 2023). The schedule release is now only two weeks away on March 28!

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/ 15.4 Release Candidaterelease 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). is scheduled.

What’s new in Gutenberg 15.3? (March 13, 2023) – posted by @richtabor. This version tightens up the site editing experience, adds a new “Time to Read” 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., and some Duotone enhancements.

3. Highlighted posts

A Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., March 6-13, 2023 – thanks to @audrasjb

  • 48 commits
  • 62 contributors
  • 47 tickets created
  • 8 tickets reopened
  • 68 tickets closed

And welcome to the five new contributors from this week!

4. Releases

Useful information on the next major WordPress release 6.2:

New links/ key information this week:
6.2 live product demo Q&A – posted by @marybaum
– The 6.2 Field Guide and more Developer Notes for 6.2

WordPress 6.2 has branched.

Also check the #6-2-release-leads channel for the latest updates.

For information:

Any additional updates from the Release Squad will be shared in the meeting.

5. Request for help with tickets/ components/ blockers/

If you have a ticket or request to help, please add a comment to the agenda post. Please indicate if you will be attending the meeting live and be able to highlight the issue further if needed.

If you are unable to attend dev chat live, you can add further details of the issue you would like highlighted either in comments, or message Core Team reps @webcommsat and @hellofromtonya with the additional information to raise in this week’s meeting for you.

6. Open floor

Items for this agenda item and the previous one are welcome from across time zones. Please add suggestions in comments on this post. Thanks.

Props for agenda preparation @webcommsat, and review @hellofromtonya.

#6-2, #agenda, #dev-chat

Editor Chat Agenda: March 15, 2023

Facilitator and notetaker: @bph

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 03:00 PM GMT+1This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making 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/..

Editor chat summary: 8 March, 2023

Announcements

Key project updates:

Task Coordination.

Open Floor – extended edition.

If you cannot attend the meeting, you are encouraged to share anything relevant for the discussion:

  • If you have an update for the main site editing projects, please feel free to share as a comment or come prepared for the meeting itself.
  • If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.
  • If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

Props to @paaljoachim for review

#agenda, #core-editor, #core-editor-agenda, #meeting

Performance Chat Agenda: 14 March 2023

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for March 14, 2023 at 16:00 UTC.

  • Announcements
    • As agreed in last weeks chat, this week we are following the new agenda structure below that is more aligned with our 2023 roadmap
    • During each priority project update, we will aim to 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.) the individuals who contributed suggestions for that priority project in the 2023 roadmap, to get any updates on progress
  • Priority projects
  • Open floor

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

#agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

Dev Chat Agenda, March 8, 2023

The next WordPress Developers Chat will on Wednesday March 8, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of the Make WordPress Slack.

Note: the 6.2 RC1 release party for will now be on March 8, approximately from 17:00 UTC. Please check for updates in the #6-2-release-leads on 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/..

1. Welcome and notices

Dev Chat summary, March 1, 2023 – thanks to @ironprogrammer

2. Announcements

WordPress 6.2 Beta 5 – available to download and test

WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 1 is postponed March 9, around 17:00 UTC.

3. Highlighted posts

A Week in Core – March 6, 2023 – thanks to @audrasjb

Developer Notes for 6.2 – check out all the new dev notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase.. The Field GuideField guide The field guide is a type of blogpost published on Make/Core during the release candidate phase of the WordPress release cycle. The field guide generally lists all the dev notes published during the beta cycle. This guide is linked in the about page of the corresponding version of WordPress, in the release post and in the HelpHub version page. is expected to be published soon.

4. Release update

Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.2
6.2 development cycle
6.2 bug scrub schedule
Roadmap to 6.2
Help Test WordPress 6.2

WordPress 6.2 Accessibility improvements
Dev Notes for 6.2 (link above in the ‘Highlighted Posts’ section of the agenda)

WordPress 6.2 Preview post

Check the #6-2-release-leads channel for latest updates.

5. Requests for help with tickets/ blockers

Priority will be given to items associated with the 6.2 release. Please add items for the meeting in comments below.

@ndiego request for callout for #48731. This PR addresses an issue identified after 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. 4. It is thought the PR thoroughly fixes the issues, but more testing would be helpful.

General testing of the Site Editor requested as a primary focus.

6. Open floor

If you have an item you would like to be raised in this section of the meeting, you can add the topic in the comments below.

If you can not attend the meeting, as a global project, asynchronous updates are welcome. You can add these into the comments section.

Agenda prep @webcommsat, thanks to @costdev for review.

#agenda, #dev-chat

Performance Chat Agenda: 7 March 2023

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for March 7, 2023 at 16:00 UTC.


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

#agenda, #meeting, #performance, #performance-chat

Editor Chat Agenda: 8 March 2023

Facilitator and notetaker: @paaljoachim

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, March 08 2023, 03:00 PM GMT+1. This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making 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/..

Gutenberg plugin 15.3 RC2 ready to test. The final version of 15.3 will likely be released on Wednesday.
WordPress 6.2 RC1 postponed, additional Beta 5 added.
WordPress 6.2 Beta 5.

Key project updates:

Task Coordination.

Open Floor – extended edition.

If you are not able to attend the meeting, you are encouraged to share anything relevant for the discussion:

  • If you have an update for the main site editing projects, please feel free to share as a comment or come prepared for the meeting itself.
  • If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.
  • If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

#agenda, #core-editor, #core-editor-agenda, #meeting

Dev Chat Agenda, March 1, 2023

The next WordPress Developers Chat will on Wednesday March 1, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of the Make WordPress Slack.

Note: the release party for 6.2 Beta 4 will now be on March 1, approximately from 17:00 UTC. Please check for updates in the #6-2-release-leads on 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/..

1. Welcome and notices

Dev Chat summary (link to follow)

2. Announcements

6.2 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. 4 is due to be released prior to dev chat.

3. Highlighted posts

What’s New in Gutenberg 15.2 – Read how the template editing experience has been improved, 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) improvements and additional control support for blocks. Posted by @daisyo

A Week in Core, February 20 to 27, 2023 – thanks to @audrasjb

Core Performance Team Roadmap published

4. Release update

Next major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope.: 6.2
6.2 development cycle
6.2 bug scrub schedule
Roadmap to 6.2
Help Test WordPress 6.2

Check the #6-2-release-leads channel for latest updates.

A 6.2 live demo will take place be on Thursday, 2 March 2023 at 17:00 GMT. More details on the 6.2 live product demo – posted by @jpantani

The release squad will be able to share any 6.2 updates in dev chat or async on this post.

5. Requests for help with tickets/ blockers

Priority will be given to items associated with the 6.2 release. Please add items for the meeting in comments below.

6. Open floor

If you have an item you would like to be raised in this section of the meeting, you can add the topic in the comments below.

If you can not attend the meeting, as a global project, asynchronous updates are welcome. You can add these into the comments section.

#6-2, #agenda, #dev-chat