Dev Chat agenda, August 30, 2023

The next weekly WordPress developers chat will take place on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack. All are welcome.

More items will be added to this agenda as they come in.

Welcome and housekeeping

Announcements

WordPress 6.3.1 is available – thanks to everyone involved in making this happen

Highlighted posts

For information: Default theme chat agenda for August 30, 2023

Introducing Twenty Twenty Four theme for the 6.4 release

Forthcoming release updates

Current major WordPress release: 6.3

Reminder: WordPress 6.3 developer notes. 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. has had 6,500 views since it was published on July 18!S

Next major WordPress release: 6.4

New: Release parties schedule for 6.4

Existing 6.4 useful links

Roadmap to 6.4 – this 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. is scheduled for November 7, 2023.

Bug Scrub Schedule 6.4

6.4 Development Cycle

6.4 Editor Taskboard 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/

Tickets or Components help requests

Please add any items for this part of the agenda to the comments. If you can not attend dev chat live, don’t worry, include a note and the facilitator can highlight a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. if needed.

Open floor

If you have any additional items to add to the agenda, please respond in the comments below to help the facilitator highlight them during the meeting.

Any update from 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/. WCUS.

#6-4, #agenda, #dev-chat

Default Theme Chat Agenda: August 30th, 2023

This is the agenda for the weekly Default Theme chat scheduled for Aug 30, 2023 3pm UTC.

This meeting is held in the #core-themes channel in 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/..

Props to @poena for helping with creating this post.

#6-4 #agenda #bundled-theme #core-themes #twenty-twenty-four

Performance Chat Agenda: 29 August 2023

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Aug 29, 2023 at 15:00 UTC. If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.


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: August 30th, 2023

Facilitator and notetaker: @andraganescu.

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, August 30, 2023, 03:00 PM GMT+1.

This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in 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/..

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

  • If you have an update for the main site editing projects, please feel free to share it 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, August 23, 2023

The next weekly WordPress developers chat will take place on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack. All are welcome.

For those new to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and getting set up ready for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US 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/., there is a New Contributors session 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/. today at 19:00 UTC. These take place every two weeks. They are a great place to start.

Also a useful read is the FAQ for new contributors to core.

Preparing for Contributor Day at WordCamp US 2023.

Welcome and housekeeping

Dev Chat Summary, August 16, 2023

Announcements

What’s new in Gutenberg 16.5? (23 August)

6.3.1 RC1 will be released August 23, 2023 right after DevChat.

6.3.1 release is scheduled for August 29, 2023.

Highlighted posts

A Week in Core – August 21, 2023

What’s new for Navigation in WordPress 6.2 and 6.3

Hallway Hangout on improving accessibility in the site editor – join on Thursday 14 September 2023.

Developer Hours are held monthly and you can attend live or play recordings on catch up on various channels including WordPress.tv. The next Developer Hours event will be on August 30, 2023 at 15:00 UTC on HTML API.

On the same topic, there is a new post: Progress report on HTML API.

WordPressCS 3.0.0 is now available – this makes significant changes to improve the accuracy, performance, stability and maintainability of all sniffssniff A module for PHP Code Sniffer that analyzes code for a specific problem. Multiple stiffs are combined to create a PHPCS standard. The term is named because it detects code smells, similar to how a dog would "sniff" out food., and makes WordPressCS much better at handling modern PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher.

Exploring the power of block variations

Final reminder to share your comments on the ticket ownership discussion by September 1, 2023.

Forthcoming release updates

Current major WordPress release: 6.3

Reminder: WordPress 6.3 developer notes. 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. has had 6,500 views since it was published on July 18!S

Next major WordPress release: 6.4

New this week are:

Roadmap to 6.4 – this 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. is scheduled for November 7, 2023.

Bug Scrub Schedule 6.4

Some of the other key posts:

6.4 Development Cycle

6.4 Editor Taskboard 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/

Tickets or Components help requests

Please add any items for this part of the agenda to the comments. If you can not attend dev chat live, don’t worry, include a note and the facilitator can highlight a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. if needed.

Contributor Day

WordCamp US Contributor Day is tomorrow. A post to help new contributors get started and prepare for the event is available.

New contributors are encouraged to set up local environments in advance and to come along to the New Core Contributor session today, Wednesday August 23, 2023 at 19:00 UTC, in the Core Slack.

Open floor

If you have any additional items to add to the agenda, please respond in the comments below to help the facilitator highlight them during the meeting.

#6-4, #agenda, #dev-chat

Editor Chat Agenda: August 23rd, 2023

Facilitator and notetaker: @jorgefilipecosta.

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, August 23, 2023, 03:00 PM GMT+1.

This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in 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/..

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

  • If you have an update for the main site editing projects, please feel free to share it 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, August 16, 2023

The next weekly WordPress developers chat will take place on Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack. All are welcome.

For those new to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and getting set up ready for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US 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/., there is a New Contributors session 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/. every two weeks at 19:00 UTC. These take place every two weeks. They are a great place to start.

Also a useful read is the FAQ for new contributors to core.

Welcome and housekeeping

Dev Chat summary, August 9, 2023

Announcements

Highlighted posts

Status update on the Interactivity API proposal published a few months ago. This APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. aims to create a new standard for WordPress that simplifies and empowers building rich interactive web applications with WordPress using declarative and reactive programming principles. 

What’s new for developers, August 2023 edition on the Developer Blogblog (versus network, site)

Reminder: Share your comments on the ticket ownership discussion by September 1, 2023.

Forthcoming release updates

Current major WordPress release: 6.3

Reminder: WordPress 6.3 developer notes. 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. has had 6,500 views since it was published on July 18!S

Next major WordPress release: 6.4

6.4 Development Cycle

6.4 Editor Taskboard 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/

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/

What’s new in Gutenberg 16.4 – posted by @mikachan

Tickets or Components help requests

Please add any items for this part of the agenda to the comments. If you can not attend dev chat live, don’t worry, include a note and the facilitator can highlight a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. if needed.

Contributor Day

WordCamp US Contributor Day is next week. There is a draft prepared to promote with new contributors ahead of the event.

This WCUS preparation post will be finalized immediately after Dev Chat, so please add any further comments to the Slack channel. If you are able to volunteer to help in person or remotely on Slack, please add your name in the comments on the agenda or after Dev Chat in Slack. Core 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. @webcommsat (abhanonstopnewsuk on Slack) is collating details for the event.

New contributors are encouraged to set up local environments in advance and to come along to the New Core Contributor session on Wednesday August 23, 2023 at 19:00 UTC in the Core Slack.

Open floor

If you have any additional items to add to the agenda, please respond in the comments below to help the facilitator highlight them during the meeting.

#6-4, #agenda, #dev-chat

Performance Chat Agenda: 15 August 2023

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Aug 15, 2023 at 15:00 UTC. If you have any topics you’d like to add to this agenda, please add them in the comments below.


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, August 9, 2023

The next weekly WordPress developers chat will take place on Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack. All are welcome.

For those new to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and getting set up ready for WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US 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/., there is a New Contributors session 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/. on Wednesday, 9 August 2023 at 20:00 BST. These take place every two weeks. They are a great place to start.

Also a useful read is the FAQ for new contributors to core.

Welcome and housekeeping

Dev Chat summary, August 2, 2023 – courtesy of @ironprogrammer

Announcements

WordPress 6.3 ‘Lionel’ Release is now out!

A big thank you to everyone who has made this possible, and to contributors across the globe who continue to contribute to its usage, extension, translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization., and marketing – as ever, a real community effort.

Highlighted posts

WordPress 6.3 performance improvements

WordPress 6.3 developer notes

Updating WordPress to use more modern versions of Node.js/npm

Reminder: Share your comments on the ticket ownership discussion by September 1, 2023.

Forthcoming release updates

Next major WordPress release: 6.4

6.4 Development Cycle

Reminder: Discussion on a 6.4 wish list. Deadline for comments August 15, 2023.

Tickets or Components help requests

Please add any items for this part of the agenda to the comments. If you can not attend dev chat live, don’t worry, include a note and the facilitator can highlight a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. if needed.

Open floor

If you have any additional items to add to the agenda, please respond in the comments below to help the facilitator highlight them during the meeting.

Contributor Day, WordCamp US

Please share any updates for this and if you are able to help support new contributors to core during the event.

#agenda, #dev-chat

Editor Chat Agenda: 9 August 2023

Facilitator and notetaker: @paaljoachim

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for Wednesday, August 9 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 6.3 will be released on the 8th of August.
Gutenberg 16.4 RC1 is available for testing.
Final version of 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/ 16.4 will be released Wednesday.
A big thank you to @mikachan for handling the Gutenberg 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 release.

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