Upgrade/Install component meeting agenda for August 3, 2021

The next meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021, at 17:00 UTC and will take place on #core-auto-updates 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 with the following agenda:

  • Status update on the rollback for failed plugin/theme updates
  • Open floor, tickets awaiting review, triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. – depending on who shows up 🙂

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Upgrade/Install component meeting agenda for June 8th, 2021

The next meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, June 8th, 2021, at 17:00 UTC and will take place on #core-auto-updates 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 with the following agenda:

  • Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. of the tickets in the spreadsheet (they all refer to Outcome 1 of the Updater initiative)
  • Status update on the rollback for failed plugin/theme updates
  • Open floor/tickets awaiting review

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Upgrade/Install component meeting notes from June 1st, 2021

On Tuesday June 1, I did a scrub in the #core-auto-updates 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 about tickets related to Outcome 1 of the Updaters initiative, “Make sure the zips upload and unpacking are safe”. You can read the monologue on Slack 🙂

  • #35217, #36373 – Closed since they contradict the best practices laid out in the plugin handbook.
  • #33571 – Asked for more information to confirm that the issue persists
  • #34676 – I will test it and if it needs a refresh I will leave a comment on it
  • #38084 – Pinged @desrosj for review since there is a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. uploaded
  • #44118 – Patch has been refreshed by @pbiron recently, added needs-testing keyword
  • #50849 – Pinged @desrosj and @hellofromtonya for a status update.
  • #51823 – Asked the reporter if more information can be provided since the issue can not be reproduced

See you next week!

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Upgrade/Install component meeting agenda for June 1st, 2021

The next meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, June 1st, 2021, at 17:00 UTC and will take place on #core-auto-updates 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 with the following agenda:

  • Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. of the tickets in the spreadsheet (they all refer to Outcome 1 of the Updater initiative)
  • Open floor/tickets awaiting review

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Upgrade/Install component meeting notes from May 18th, 2021

On Tuesday May 18, the component held a meeting in the #core-auto-updates 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. You can read the conversation in Slack.

At this time, the component is tackling two main topics

  • Updaters
  • Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. of the component

Yesterday @afragen, @poena, @francina, and @pbiron worked/discussed the following tickets:

  • #14781 – The ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. was discussed also during the previous chat. It was decided to close it and follow the best practices laid out in the plugin handbook.
  • #20944 – The ticket was closed. The maintainers don’t see an elegant way to automate this action at this time. The solution is to re-activate 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 from the CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. or via FTPFTP FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol which is a way of moving computer files from one computer to another via the Internet. You can use software, known as a FTP client, to upload files to a server for a WordPress website. https://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients..
  • #17301 – A method or instructions on how to test would be good. Added a note asking for testing info in the ticket.
  • #51823 and #51857 – The issue in the first ticket can not be reproduced or addressed without more details. @francina will investigate with @sergeybiryukov since the ticket mentions the Yoast plugin. As for the second ticket, @afragen pointed out that there were issues in the copying of the downloaded plugin or the plugin was incompletely downloaded and it’s hard to determine. The feature pluginFeature Plugin A plugin that was created with the intention of eventually being proposed for inclusion in WordPress Core. See Features as Plugins. Rollback Update Failure is an attempt to restore the previous existing plugin in the event of a failure. He created a Gist to force a failure to see how the feature plugin works. https://gist.github.com/afragen/80b68a6c8826ab37025b05d4519bb4bf – If you try it, please add your comments in the tickets.
  • #15134, #29408, and #36710 are all related to symlinks. @pbiron will evaluate those and see if he can close a couple of them in favor of keeping of single ticket open.

See you next week!

#core-auto-updates, #updater, #upgrade-install

Upgrade/Install component meeting agenda for May 18th, 2021

The next meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at 17:00 UTC and will take place on #core-auto-updates 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 with the following agenda:

  • Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. of the tickets in the spreadsheet (they all refer to Outcome 1 of the Updater initiative)
  • Open floor/tickets awaiting review

Got something to propose for the agenda? Please leave a comment below.

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Upgrade/Install component meeting agenda for May 11th, 2021

Next meeting is scheduled on Tuesday May 11, 2021 at 17:00 UTC and will take place on #core-auto-updates 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 with the following agenda:

  • Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. of the tickets in the spreadsheet (they all refer to Outcome 1 of the Updater initiative)
  • Open floor/tickets awaiting review

Got something to propose for the agenda? Please leave a comment below.

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Upgrade/Install component meeting notes from May 4th, 2021

On Tuesday May 4, the component held a meeting in the #core-auto-updates 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.

The main topic in agenda was the Update the Updaters project kickoff.

These are the decisions taken about it:

  • The group will tackle the outcomes in order, to complete one sub-project before moving to another.
  • The weekly upgrade/install component meeting is back and the updater project will be part of them. Tuesdays at 5 pm UTC is confirmed.
  • @francina will post the agenda and host the meeting. If she isn’t available @audrasjb will step in.
  • @pbiron is going to go through the tickets in the “Outcome 1” list to prioritize them before the next meeting.
  • @audrasjb will refresh his patches as part of the “Outcome 1” drive.
  • The attendees agree that @schlessera‘s proposal to make everything as compatible as possible with WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ should be part of the scope.
  • No additional tools will be used to keep track of the project at this time since it’s a small group of people working on it. If there will be more contributors (🤞), the decision will be revisited.

The attendees also checked an open ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. (#53049) and agreed that it’s a good idea to include a changelog in the autoupdate emails that users that have opted-in to this service receive.

See you next week!

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Upgrade/Install component meeting agenda for May 4th, 2021

Next meeting is scheduled on Tuesday May 4, 2021 at 19:00 UTC+2 and will take place on #core-auto-updates 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 with the following agenda:

  • Update the Updaters project kickoff (thanks @francina for putting this post together)
    • Outcome 1 – Make sure the zip uploads and unpacking are safe
    • Outcome 2 – Create a mechanism to upgrade and rollback
    • Outcome 3 – Have managed updates (database migrations)
    • Outcome 4 – Create a unified JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. convention for requirements and dependencies
  • Open floor / tickets awaiting review

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Dev Chat meeting Summary – April 7, 2021

This is the weekly meetings summary of the WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team. The facilitator for this week’s chats was @peterwilsoncc at 05:00 UTC and @francina at 20:00 UTC. Here is the meeting agenda.

Link to 05:00 UTC devchat meeting on the core channel on Slack

Link to 20:00 UTC devchat meeting on the core channel on Slack

Announcements & News

Upcoming releases

WordPress 5.7.1

In line with the trial for consistent minor release leads for each major branch, all the 5.7.x point releases will be led by @peterwilsoncc, with @audrasjb as deputy.

Here is the expected 5.7.1 release schedule:

  • 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).: Wednesday 7 April, 2021 around 23:00 UTC (released)
  • Final release: Wednesday 14 April, 2021 around 23:00 UTC

@audrasjb announced (and hosted) a new 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 devchat.

Note: At the time this meeting recap is published, WP 5.7.1 Release Candidate 1 is now available for testing.

WordPress 5.8

@francina shared some blogposts worth reading, where a new, experimental, release cycle is proposed, and the early bug scrubs schedule is now available.

Core related blogblog (versus network, site) posts

@annezazu shared that the current FSE call for testing is now open for feedback until April 12th rather than April 8th. Hopefully, this gives people an extra weekend to chime in and share their experience.

@chanthaboune pointed out that the first go/no go date for FSE in WP5.8 is next Tuesday.

@nalininonstopnewsuk shared that it is possible share FSE Call for Testing on social and FSE Call for Testing on LinkedIn.

@francina shared this blog post from the Marketing Team: Thoughts on Marketing, FSE, and What’s Next. It’s relevant to the current release, so please read and leave your feedback.

Component maintainers updates

Build/Test Tools (@sergeybiryukov): Work has continued on backporting recent build and test tool improvements to the older branches still receiving security updates. See ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #52653 for more details. A post is also upcoming on make/core.

Date/Time, General, I18Ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill., Permalinks (@sergeybiryukov): No major news this week.

Menus, Widgets, Upgrade/Install (@audrasjb): No major news this week.

Site Health (@clorith): The only ticket in milestone 5.7.1 was committed in time.

@francina also pointed out the ticket she opened in Meta Trac concerning Component maintainers updates. In the past month she also reached out to the majority of the components and removed inactive maintainers. Right now there are quite a lot of components without maintainers.

The attendees discussed about maintainers recruitment. If anyone is interested to help to maintain a component, @audrasjb pointed out that he would be happy to mentor/explain what he is doing on the few components he maintains. @francina proposed an online meeting/Q&A, like the casual online gatherings hosted by the community team.

Open floor

@paaljoachim asked what is the definition of what can and not not be included in a minor 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..

@jeffpaul quoted the Core team handbook: “A minor release is intended for bugfixes and enhancements that do not add new deployedDeploy Launching code from a local development environment to the production web server, so that it's available to visitors. files and are at the discretion of the release leadRelease Lead The community member ultimately responsible for the Release. with suggestions/input from component maintainers and committers.”

@sergeybiryukov added that generally, minor releases are addressing regressions introduced in the latest release and some follow-up changes to new features, with occasional fixes for bugs from other recent releases, and occasional enhancements that the release leads feel are necessary.

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