Performance Chat Agenda: 5 December 2023

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Dec 5, 2023 at 16:00 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, November 29, 2023

The next weekly WordPress developers chat will take place on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Welcome and housekeeping

All are welcome to join Dev Chat.

Dev Chat summary from November 27, 2023 – props to @marybaum for facilitating and the summary.

If you can help with dev chat summaries, please raise your hand in the meeting.

Announcements

What’s new in Gutenberg 17.1

Highlighted posts

Summary of the Hallway Hangout on the triage extensibility issue https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/11/27/summary-hallway-hangout-triage-extensibility-issue/

Hallway Hangout: let’s explore WordPress 6.5 – this will take place on Zoom on Tuesday, January 14, 2024 at 21:00 UTC. All welcome to join, whether it is to listen or participate too. There will be a recording and recap published. The event will be in the form of a free flowing demo/ presentation going through as many 6.5 release priorities as possible. The release has a proposed schedule of March 26, 2024.
More on 6.5 further down the agenda.

Please add any additional highlighted posts in comments.

Update from coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-editor

This is a new section in the agenda as a pilot.

Update on the Core Editor via @annezazu:

In the meeting or in the comments for async contributions, @annezazu asks if folks can please emoji reactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. with feedback to give a sense of whether she is on/off track:  = good,  = okay,  = bad. For anything other than green, feel free to thread a comment during the meeting with feedback or link the item and add it to the comments below.

Please also add your thoughts to the discussion on the future of the core-editor chat.

Forthcoming release updates

WordPress release: 6.4

Any new issues?

New updates on 6.4.x release team or dates for 6.4.2?

For those who were missing the core contributor profile badge and should have received it after 6.4, profiles have been updated. Slack update. should have it now.

Next major WordPress release: 6.5

Any new updates?

WordPress 6.5 Editor Tasks board is out.

Development cycle page.

Are you able to help with future 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. scrubs? Bug scrubs post. Check out the tickets discussed at the bug scrub on November 28, 2023. Next scrub: December 5, 2023 at 19:00 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.

Tickets or Components help requests

Please add any items for this part of the agenda to the comments – tickets for 6.5 will be prioritized. 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.

a) Reminder from last week: Josepha has asked in the Team Reps channel for highlights from the last year, if you have any item you feel should be included about core’s achievements or items in progress, please add them to the comments on this post for @webcommsat and @hellofromtonya who are preparing the bullet points to send for core. Please do share any comments on this agenda.

b) Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2024 edition – reshare of the draft post to gather suggestions on timings related to the end date for nominations and the end of the voting period. The voting tool to use and whether an embedded voting block in discussion with other teams would be available for this edition to be finalized.

Please do consider whether you could stand for the 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. for next year.

#6-4-x, #6-5, #agenda, #dev-chat

Performance Chat Agenda: 28 November 2023

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Nov 28, 2023 at 16:00 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, November 22, 2023

The next weekly WordPress developers chat will take place on Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Welcome and housekeeping

All are welcome to join Dev Chat.

Dev Chat summary from November 15, 2023 – thanks @ironprogrammer and @webcommsat

If you can help with dev chat summaries, please raise your hand in the meeting.

Announcements

What’s new in Gutenberg 17.1

Highlighted posts

Exploration to support Modules and Import Maps – this post shares the collaborative effort to explore native support for modern 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/. modules and import maps within the WordPress ecosystem to enhance the developer experience. Details of how you can get involved with this initiative are in the post.

Please add any additional highlighted posts in comments.

Introduction

Update from coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-editor (New section in the agenda)

Initially items relating to this will be posted as comments on the agenda by @annezazu and others.

Please also add your thoughts to the discussion on the future of the core-editor chat.

Forthcoming release updates

WordPress release: 6.4 – any new issues?

Any new updates on 6.4.x release team or dates for 6.4.2?

Next major WordPress release: 6.5

Update opportunity.

Development cycle page.

Are you able to help with future 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. scrubs? Bug scrubs post.

Tickets or Components help requests

Please add any items for this part of the agenda to the comments – tickets for 6.5 will be prioritized. 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.

a) Josepha has asked in the Team Reps channel for highlights from the last year, if you have any item you feel should be included about core’s achievements or items in progress, please add them to the comments on this post for @webcommsat and @hellofromtonya who are preparing the bullet points to send for core.

b) Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2024 edition – reshare of the draft post to gather suggestions on timings related to the end date for nominations and the end of the voting period. The voting tool to use and whether an embedded voting 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. in discussion with other teams would be available for this edition to be finalized. Please do consider whether you could stand for the 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. for next year.

#6-4, #6-5, #agenda, #dev-chat

Performance Chat Agenda: 21 November 2023

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Nov 21, 2023 at 16:00 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, November 15, 2023

The next weekly WordPress developers chat will take place on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Welcome and housekeeping

All are welcome to join Dev Chat.

If you can help with dev chat summaries, please raise your hand in the meeting.

Announcements

WordPress 6.4.1 became available on November 8, 2023.

For background information:

Highlighted posts

What’s new in Gutenberg 17.0

WordPress 6.4 performance improvements (this will be added to 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.). @swissspidy has also published his own post on how to get started with WordPress performance https://pascalbirchler.com/wordpress-performance-testing/

An update to the Field Guide with a new dev notedev 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.: Main query loop handling for block themes in 6.4.

Post on an update to the core commit message format. It has been updated to take into account backportbackport A port is when code from one branch (or trunk) is merged into another branch or trunk. Some changes in WordPress point releases are the result of backporting code from trunk to the release branch. and follow up commits. There is also a change on where ‘props’ is used in the commit message.

Call for what is currently needed with 6.4 End User documentation (HelpHub)
Documentation tracker on GitHub for 6.4 end users.

Reminder from last week’s schedule dev chat: (not all these may be featured in the dev chat on November 15 depending on time available).

Forthcoming release updates

WordPress release: 6.4 – any issues

Reference information:
Field Guide for 6.4
– All Developer Notes relating to 6.4 can be found using this tag.

Next major WordPress release: 6.5

The development cycle page has been created. It will be populated post the discussion on release timings and the finalization of the squad.

Are you able to help with future 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. scrubs? The next bug scrubs post.

Bug scrub on November 14, 2023. The list of tickets in milestone by the scrub. Start of the scrub for those looking at tickets async.

Tickets or Components help requests

Please add any items for this part of the agenda to the comments – tickets for 6.5 will be prioritized. 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.

This was due to be shared at last week’s dev chat. Bringing it again to November 15, 2023:
Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2024 edition – @webcommsat to reshare the draft post and timings. To continue exploring and with 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. to embed a voting 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. within the post to make it easier for voting. Thanks to @ironprogrammer on testing and helping move this option forward, which may also assist other teams in the future.

#6-4, #6-5, #agenda, #dev-chat

Performance Chat Agenda: 14 November 2023

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Nov 14, 2023 at 16:00 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, November 8, 2023

The next weekly WordPress developers chat will take place on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack.

Welcome and housekeeping

All are welcome to join Dev Chat.

If you can help with dev chat summaries, please raise your hand in the meeting.

Announcements

WordPress 6.4 is out!
Thank you to every single person who has been involved and continues to contribute to 6.4 related items. As the work continues on post release aspects, another update on props will happen later in the week. It can also capture anyone missed or WordPress IDs to be updated.

Highlighted posts

A proposal for 2024 major release timings has been shared by @chanthaboune. This includes proposed dates for 6.5 to 6.7. Thoughts on timing, focus, or anything else relates to these releases can be added to the comments.
In addition, depending on other items, the Dev Chat facilitator can give time during the meeting for a live discussion.

Accessibility improvements in the 6.4 release

Proposal to discontinue the weekly core-editor meetings. Discussion about incorporating some of this within Dev Chat.

Discussion on shareable performance utils to help incorporating performance testing as part of their development workflow. On a related note, a blogblog (versus network, site) is coming from @swissspidy to help people get started with performance testing.

Reminders:

Call for 6.4x release managers

Help write and review 6.4 End User documentation

Forthcoming release updates

WordPress release: 6.4 – any issues

Reference information:
Field Guide for 6.4
– All Developer Notes relating to 6.4 can be found using this tag.

Next major WordPress release: 6.5

The development cycle page has been created. It will be populated post the discussion on release timings and the finalization of the squad.

Tickets or Components help requests

Please add any items for this part of the agenda to the comments – tickets for 6.4.x and 6.5 will be prioritized. 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.

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Reps: 2024 edition – @webcommsat to reshare the draft post and timings.

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

Performance Chat Agenda: 7 November 2023

Here is the agenda for this week’s performance team meeting scheduled for Nov 7, 2023 at 16:00 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, November 1, 2023

The next weekly WordPress developers chat will take place on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 20:00 UTC in the core channel of Make WordPress Slack. Note, the 6.4 RC3 is scheduled for November 1, so there may be a change in Dev Chat timings if needed. Please check the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. channel for updates.

Further items will continue to be added as they come up in core and release leads channels 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/..

Welcome and housekeeping

All are welcome to join Dev Chat.

If you can help with dev chat summaries, please raise your hand in the meeting. It is a busy time and additional people are appreciated.

Announcements

WordPress 6.4 Release Candidate 3 – was released today.

Highlighted posts

Due to time constraints during a release and to prioritize 6.4 items, some of the highlighted posts may not be raised during the live Dev Chat meeting.

Recording of the Hallway hangout on performance improvements in WordPress 6.4 is now available. The main points are also summarized on the post for anyone not able to access the recording.

Call for 6.4x release managers – this followed a discussion in Dev Chat last week. Please add a comment to the post if you are interested in supporting the maintenance and minor releases. Thanks @jorbin for putting this together.

Reminder: Call for contributors to assist with 6.4 End User documentation. Extra assistance will be appreciated to help with this as we move towards the release day.

What’s new in Gutenberg 16.9

Forthcoming release updates

Next major WordPress release: 6.4

Updates or important discussions relating to the final week of the release.

Any issues relating to 6.4?

Existing 6.4 useful links

Field Guide for 6.4

You can also find all Developer Notes relating to 6.4 using this tag. If you think another change would benefit from a dev notedev 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. and it has not been highlighted previously, add it to the Documentation Tracker for 6.4.

Release parties schedule for 6.4

6.4 Release Candidates phase

This detailed guide will walk you through testing features in WordPress 6.4.

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

Bug Scrub Schedule 6.4

6.4 Development Cycle

Project Board for Editor Tasks for WordPress 6.4 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

This section is subject to change depending on the needs of the release.

Please add any items for this part of the agenda to the comments – tickets for 6.4 will be prioritized. 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.

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