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Paal Joachim Romdahl 2:16 pm on July 20, 2020
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Editor chat Summary: 15th July, 2020

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting agenda here. Held on Wednesday, 15th July 2020 held in Slack. Moderated by @itsjusteileen.

WordPress 5.5 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. 2

Beta 2 was released 14th July.

Project board for WordPress 5.5.

The remaining issues are located in the Project board.

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/ releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software. 8.5

Gutenberg 8.5 was released 8th of July. This is the last 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 that is going to be included entirely (without experimental features) in WordPress 5.5.

Monthly Priorities

What is next in Gutenberg for July.

Link to the first Navigation 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. chat

Back scroll to the first Navigation block Slack chat meeting

Task Coordination

@zebulan
I opened a PR to implement a solution to makemake A collection of P2 blogs at make.wordpress.org, which are the home to a number of contributor groups, including core development (make/core, formerly "wpdevel"), the UI working group (make/ui), translators (make/polyglots), the theme reviewers (make/themes), resources for plugin authors (make/plugins), and the accessibility working group (make/accessibility). the Improve parent block selector button UI. Needs more feedback.
PR: More block: use an actual placeholder for input text.
PR: Heading block: add heading level checker needs a final code review.
PR: Polish Custom HTML block Needs design feedback and code review.
PR: Fix odd usage of transform-styles wrap function (and tighten types) and
Block Editor: use optional chaining and nullish coalescing instead of Lodash.get needs reviews.
PR to lighten the editor DOM of the Buttons block is still blocked by an issue with how AlignmentHookSettingsProvider works. Technical help is needed to proceed. My plans to fix the current confusing/half-broken state of the Buttons alignment controls rely on this PR.


@mkaz
Working on docs, good progress on dev env setup and Create a Block tutorial. An open PR-23946 links up the Create a Block tutorial making it the starting point for block development. Once merged, we need to audit older block tutorial to correct overlap and expand it to be for intermediate topics.

@paaljoachim
Documentation: Installing a local development environment has been separated from the new block creation tutorial. Almost finished with the dev environment documentation and will be asking for testing when it is finished. A new PR for the third iteration of the dev env docs will be created soon.

@zieladam
Content loss/autosave issue: #23781
New idea of “local drafts” library: #23955
Navigation screen project board.
New link editing interface (directly in block toolbar): #23375

@annezazu
Launched the “Versions in WordPress” Doc with help from @mkaz
Light triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. focused on unlabeled & block directory testing.
Gave feedback on the language around the block directory checker plugin.
Hoping to start work this week on updating the Gutenberg FAQ.

@ntsekouras
Refactored MediaPlaceholder and More blocks to function components.
PR for Classic block content bug.

@shaunandrews
I posted a design for a new sidebar for navigating between templates, posts, and pages without leaving the editor.

@nrqsnchz
Shepherding the last remaining updates and tweaks to the block patterns that will ship with 5.5.
Started looking into Site Editor: Improve template part visibility.
I’ve yet to start looking at updating wp.org/gutenberg. Will focus mostly on graphics and images.

@youknowriad
The big priority for me is 5.5: 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. fixes, package releases and backports.
I helped review several PRs: FocalPointPicker, Perf testing for site editor…
Worked on several small performance improvements here and there.
Starting to work on 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 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. for 5.5.

@ItsJonQ
Continuing with Design Tool efforts.
Continuing research/experiment on improving our (ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/.-powered) 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/. UIUI User interface within the Editor.

@cvoell
Updating documentation with latest native mobile updates.
This includes a new section on troubleshooting new native mobile CI jobs, and improved tracking for any remaining randomly occurring failures.

Open Floor

@jonsurrell
The Gutenberg plugin only includes minified JavaScript.
The minified JavaScript uses .js extension not .min.js.
That diverges from what WordPress conventions and what WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. does. Even the Gutenberg packages bundled into core include readable and minified sources with .js and .min.js extensions, respectively.
I have opened this PR to propose that minified JavaScript in Gutenberg use the .min.js extension to align with convention.

@jonsurrell
Should we ship readable sources in the Gutenberg plugin?
New issue created. Plugin: Include readable source files which also includes a link to the 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/. discussion.

@jonsurrell
How to disable the Block Directory on some sites?
New issue created: Block Directory: Provide documented way to disable.

@mkaz
We updated the GitHub workflows to not run some actions (e2e & unit tests) if only markdown files are changed. Tests had to be removed from required list due to how GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ Actions work. It is possible for the tests to now fail, but the merge button is allowed. So for those merging, please double check all tests pass. We want to try it out and see if it causes a problem. The change is a good boost to speed up tests and use less resources that helps other tests to run. There is a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. open on GitHub to allow conditionally requiring actions.

@enricosorcinelli
Opened tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticket and now Github issue for Different behavior for default category term with editors.

@itsjusteileen
Did anyone ever propose an iframeiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser. block?
There is no Github issue for this yet.
@paaljoachim
There is one for iframing all of the content (but none for iframing a block):

@BackuPs
When is this gonna be fixed? Normal editor on rtl switches shortcode enclosed content and html content. Check the ticket for more information.

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg

David Smith 4:10 pm on July 9, 2020
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Editor chat summary: 8th July, 2020

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting (agenda here) held on 2020-07-08 14:00 UTC in Slack. Moderated by @get_dave.

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/ 8.5.0 releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software.

  • Gutenberg 8.5.0 was released just prior to the meeting.
  • @youknowriad highlighted:
    • Better Drag and Drop
    • Possibility to upload external images on image blocks
    • A11yAccessibility 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): Allow disabling arrow navigation across blocks
    • Anchor support added into most static blocks

WordPress 5.5

  • With Gutenberg 8.5.0 released, the focus now shifts to getting everything ready for inclusion in WordPress 5.5.
  • @ellatrix is maintaining a project board for 5.5 of issues/PRs that need to be completed.
  • @youknowriad noted the importance of:
    • testing Gutenberg 8.5.0 with WordPress 5.5 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.
    • those familiar with performance-related work, to do some monitoring and improvements.
  • @andraganescu has helpfully prepared a post which summarises the features expected to be included in WordPress 5.5.

Monthly Priorities

  • In addition to Gutenberg 8.5.0 and WordPress 5.5 the following items were highlighted as priorities for the month:
    • Full Site Editing.
    • Navigation screen and navigation 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..
    • Global Styles.
    • WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. screen.
  • @michael-arestad invited feedback on Full Site Editing flows.
  • @jeffpaul raised a query about the readiness of the Block Directory for inclusion in WP 5.5:
    • are there items the team needs to help with to ensure the non-coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. components are ready for the 5.5 release such that the Block Directory can be considered “ready” for 5.5? (Slack conversation)
    • @tellyworth was invited to provide an update on this.

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/.

  • @georgestephanis asked for a volunteer to be a point of contact for WordCamp US Contributor day for the Core Editor team.
  • @itsjusteileen volunteered to take on this role (Slack discussion).
  • @youknowriad suggested another “Introduction to Gutenberg contributing” workshop might be a good idea.

Task Coordination

Open Floor

Thanks to everyone who attended.

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #meeting-notes

Andrei Draganescu 5:42 pm on July 1, 2020
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Editor chat Summary: 1st July, 2020

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting agenda here. Held on Wednesday, 1st July 2020 held in Slack. Moderated by @andraganescu.

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/ version 8.4.0

Gutenberg version 8.4.0 was released.
A huge thank you to @noisysocks for helping for tackling the huge releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software..

Here is the nice release post.  It was a packed release with the Image Editing as highlight.

WordPress 5.5.

@ellatrix is maintaining a project board for 5.5 of issues/PRs that need to go into the next release.

Monday Gutenberg 8.5 RC will be released, which is the last Gutenberg release going into WP 5.5, so all features and enhancements that need to go in WP 5.5 must be (ready) in this release. After that, we ideally only 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. regressions or limited 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. fixes for new things. 

It’s also time to start thinking about 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 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.. Anybody can help by writing 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 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. for any of these features doing their best to cover:

  • explaining the change
  • why it was done
  • and, if it’s an impacting change, how to update the third-party code

Monthly Plan

The monthly plan for June. A plan for July is in the works by @annezazu

Task Coordination

@zeb

My PR to move reusable blocks to their own tab in the inserter is nearly ready, but there is one remaining end-to-end test failure that I need help to resolve. Remember, this is on the WP 5.5 must-have list: PR:23296

I’ve made some great improvements to the Heading 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. heading level checker PR. If feedback is positive, it should be good to merge: PR:22650

I have a PR to add color controls to the List block. A lot of users have asked for this feature, and some contributors have suggested that we get this in soon for WP 5.5. However, there are some big editor style conflicts that I think need resolving first. I need help to get this one to progress any further. Once it is resolved, it will open the door to other list-based blocks getting color controls: PR:21387

My PR to lighten the editor DOM of the Buttons block is still stuck. I need technical help to resolve it. I consider this PR vital to fixing the current confusing/broken state of the Buttons block’s alignment controls. My plans to fix the block rely on this initial task being completed first. I would really like to get this done before WP 5.5: PR:23222

I have a PR to polish the Custom HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. block which needs design feedback and a code review: PR: 21711

I have a PR to update several usages of Lodash.includes to the vanilla Array.prototype.includes. I’ve double and triple checked this PR to avoid errors. All I need is a review before I can merge: PR: 21063

While rebasing that PR, I discovered a bug in a unit testunit test Code written to test a small piece of code or functionality within a larger application. Everything from themes to WordPress core have a series of unit tests. Also see regression. which I have fixed in a separate PR that needs a review: PR: 23599

My PR to convert ReusableBlockEditPanel to a function component and add type info is still waiting for reviews: PR: 21181

I have a PR to convert PostSavedState to a functional component. It also awaits reviews: PR: 23038

@gziolo

I’m backporting changes to WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. from Gutenberg and helping in general to have everything sorted out for 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

@annezazu

@joen

I’d love eyes on this one, which tightens up the sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. controls: PR: 23578

@ajlende

I’ve been continuing work with the image editor. I have two open bug fix PRs: WordPress/gutenberg#23432 and WordPress/gutenberg#23569 (which also paves the way for re-adding flip controls) which could use review. And I simplified the scope of my batch 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. PR mentioned last week WordPress/gutenberg#23369. If we intend to release the API not under an experimental flag, I’d like to get this change into 5.5 since I think it’s a much nicer API to use.

@itsjusteileen

I’ve been testing in Full Site Editing and reviewing docs for the Block Directory

@nrqsnchz

 I’ve been helping with designing flows for template creation in FSE, and reviewing/testing PRs for a11yAccessibility 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) and design. Also started looking into updating .org Gutenberg preview

Nik Tsekouras

I’ve worked on merged PR that adds unlink support in Buttons Block PR: 23445

PR for enabling add row/column in Table block, after having added one — needs review PR: 23508

I have a PR for allowing the Pullquote to have the same transforms with Quote block — needs review PR: 23562

@mapk

I’m focusing on 5.5 to help review and test where needed.

@youknowriad

  • I’ve worked on our CI setup and used GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ Actions instead of Travis.
  • I’ve been working on the iterations to the inserter
  • Trying to help cleaning the patterns to include to Core
  • I’m also working on a job to run Gutenberg e2e tests on Core to ensure the editor is stable on Core too: PR: 356
  • Reviewing different PRs here and there

@paaljoachim

 I am helping to get the dev environment tips and tricks in place to help any user for migrationMigration Moving the code, database and media files for a website site from one server to another. Most typically done when changing hosting companies. to various node and npm versions.

@michaelarestad

We’re working on flows to create new templates and would love your feedback on initial needs/ideas here.

Open Floor

@noah

For those that use the WordPress Figma libraries, updates are on the way to incorporate the new block editor patterns, as well as some general cleaning to makemake A collection of P2 blogs at make.wordpress.org, which are the home to a number of contributor groups, including core development (make/core, formerly "wpdevel"), the UI working group (make/ui), translators (make/polyglots), the theme reviewers (make/themes), resources for plugin authors (make/plugins), and the accessibility working group (make/accessibility). these more relevant. In the Components and Patterns files, there’s a page called “In Progress” where I’m building out the new elements. Once those are approved, we’ll migrate them to the main pages.

Arpit G Shah

How can we manage to work with the new contributors?

@andraganescu

Myself and a bunch of other folks who have been working on a new, block-based, menus page (nav-menus.php) in wp-adminadmin (and super admin) will host a weekly chat in #core every Wednesday, 2020, 07:00 AM UTC, starting next week, on Jul 8th.

In general it will be a triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. around issues in GitHub labeled with either `[Feature] Navigation screen` or `[Block] Navigation` but also completely open to exploring any subject around improving the navigation creation process in WordPress, increasing compatibility with the incoming FSE and also maintaining backwards compatibility.

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #core-restapi, #gutenberg

Paal Joachim Romdahl 3:00 pm on June 25, 2020
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Editor chat Summary: 24th June, 2020

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting agenda here. Held on Wednesday, 24th June 2020 held in Slack. Moderated by @paaljoachim.

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/ version 8.4.0 RC 2

Gutenberg version 8.4 RC 2 was released today.
A huge thank you to @noisysocks for helping for tackling the huge releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software..

The next Gutenberg release 8.5 to be released on the 6th of July and will be included in 5.5. 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. will be on the 7th of July.

Project board for WordPress 5.5.

@ellatrix is maintaining a project board for 5.5 of issues/PRs that need to go into the next release.
@youknowriad is already satisfied with what has already been added to 5.5.
@michael-arestad there are a few issues he would like to see added. Such as PR: Try: Don’t show a clone when dragging.
@ellatrix We should begin polishing what we have now for the next release.
@mcsf we need to backport a lot of PHP changes to core and begin thinking about compiling 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 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..

Monthly Plan

The monthly plan for June.

Task Coordination

@zebulan
I’ve been working on moving reusable blocks to their own tab in the inserter.
I’ve also been working on various PRs to fix cases where useSelect calls were missing dependency arrays or had incorrect dependency arrays.
BlockSettingsMenuControlsSlot: add missing useSelect dependency
useDisplayBlockControls: add missing useSelect dependency
Optimize useSelect calls (batch 1)
Technical issues in this PR blocking future improvements: Buttons block: lighten editor DOM even more. Once that PR is unblocked, I can resume work on this one: Buttons block: overhaul alignment/justification controls If anyone could help figure this out so we could try and get this done before WP 5.5, that would be much appreciated. Right now the Buttons 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. alignment controls are confusing and broken.

@ntsekouras
I’m working on adding keyboard support for moving blocks.
Associated. Prototype: move blocks between levels with keyboard

@poena
Because this feature that introduces descriptions to block patterns would require changes to existing block patterns, a decision is needed so that it may be included in 5.5. We probably don’t want to makemake A collection of P2 blogs at make.wordpress.org, which are the home to a number of contributor groups, including core development (make/core, formerly "wpdevel"), the UI working group (make/ui), translators (make/polyglots), the theme reviewers (make/themes), resources for plugin authors (make/plugins), and the accessibility working group (make/accessibility). breaking changes after patterns are available in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress..

@michael-arestad
We’re starting in on the “Create a new template” flow. 
If you have any thoughts or ideas, let me know.

@youknowriad
I worked a lot on end 2 end tests lately, hopefully they are more stable now
Finally landed the quick inserter PR.
I’ll focus in on 5.5 related tasks (backports, tests on Core…)
Polish and 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. fixes on Gutenberg side.

@annezazu
I’m continuing to do triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. on needs-testing and unlabeled alongside officially placing docs about the FSE Outreach Program here. There are more to come that are being drafted and shared for feedback in #fse-outreach-experiment including a general FAQ.

@joen
I’ve been sheparding this drag and drop improvement along, and it’s looking like it can land, so I would just highlight it for your eyes once again.

@itsjonq
Continue efforts under the “Design Tools” label.
More recently, helping out with the drag/drop experience @joen and @michaelarestad mentioned.

@itsjusteileen
I’ve been testing in Full Site Editing (FSE) and helping @annezazu over in #fse-outreach-experiment. I also helped get Add reusable block tab to inserter moving and on the Project Board for 5.5. I also added Discussion: Should theme.json support conditional logic like theme supports and looking for input.

@ellatrix
I’ve been helping out with 5.5 🙂

@ajlende
Image editing tools.
Working on Image Editor Batch API for updating the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/..
Discussion about in #core-restapi channel.
Outside of Gutenberg land: Add option for flipping the image to the crop view which can be re-added in a future Gutenberg PR after it was removed in Image editing: batch editing in cropper component.

@noisysocks
Regarding task coordination, this week I’m: Releasing Gutenberg 8.4.
Working on allowing Search to be added to the Navigation screen.

Open Floor

@Kiril Zhelyazkov
I need eyes on Block icons are reordered when adding new blocks. There are different suggestions for how it should be handled and I can’t decide which is the right way to solve it.
–> No replies yet.

@chrisvanpatten
I’m not sure if I’ll be able to attend the meeting this week but I want to call attention to this issue: Patterns should not display if their blocks are not allowed.
@youknowriad
Plans to take a closer look at the issue.

@mrwweb
Use .has-background to indicate any type of background. Introduce second class for type of background.
The Block-based Themes team agreed it makes sense and we’ve since done additional research and gotten feedback that seems to confirm this is a positive change. Because it is an issue that involves changing front-end CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. classes, it feels like this needs to get into the soonest release possible to avoid causing disruption. At this time, the general consensus is that the risk of adding it is very low, but that will obviously increase over time.
@zebulan
Comment: A has-background class sounds like a good idea to me.

@itsjusteileen
Eileen is asking for comments to this issue:
Discussion: Should theme.json support conditional logic like theme supports
@youknowriad
Comment: I don’t think we need to add condition logic to theme.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. aside block vs global specific settings but the editor settings are filterable whether they come from theme.json or not, so conditional logic is possible there.

@MrMark
Before I submit a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker., wondering if anyone knows the reasoning behind having a bottom margin on wp-block-columns and wp-block-column so that when you have columns within columns, it creates large margins below that grouping, etc.
@michael-arestad
Comment: I think it’s worth a ticket/issue. If anything, we could add some conditional CSS to remove the bottom margin from child column blocks. Or just remove the margin.
@jonoalderson
Comment: https://every-layout.dev/layouts/stack/ is handy for this sort of thing. Much cleaner than conditionals for parent-child structures.

@joyously
We need either more knowledgeable people or a document (user docs for editor) to send users who ask questions in the Gutenberg plugin support forums.

@paaljoachim
Having a buddy buddy system where developers can help and review each others PRs. Reach out to other developers through a polite direct message and ask for advice. We are all here to also help each other along our paths.

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg

annezazu 7:33 pm on June 17, 2020
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Editor Chat Summary: 17th June, 2020

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript). This meeting was held in the #core-editor 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 on 2020-06-17 14:00 UTC and was moderated by @annezazu.

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/ version 8.3

Gutenberg 8.3.0 was released last week. Update your sites and check out what’s new. We’re experimenting with new ways to organize the makemake A collection of P2 blogs at make.wordpress.org, which are the home to a number of contributor groups, including core development (make/core, formerly "wpdevel"), the UI working group (make/ui), translators (make/polyglots), the theme reviewers (make/themes), resources for plugin authors (make/plugins), and the accessibility working group (make/accessibility). post, so any feedback you may have is welcome!

Monthly Plan

There was limited discussion on the specifics of the current monthly priorities. As a reminder though, WordPress 5.5 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. is less than a month away! Last week @ellatrix created this board with must-haves and priorities for 5.5. If anyone has the capacity to help, please jump in there.

Task Coordination

Note: Anyone reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment in the post summary, if you can/want to help with something.  Remember: don’t just focus on code contributions!

@zebulan

  • Working on PRs to get the Buttons 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. polished and to resolve some confusing behavior including making the block’s editor DOM match the front-end more.
  • Need technical help to proceed with this Buttons Block PR. Help with this should also help land a PR from @nfmohit to add a vertical option for the Buttons block.
  • Continuing to make progress on the Heading block heading level validator PR. Currently stuck trying to figure out how to prevent the dropdown from automatically closing when one of the heading level options is clicked.

@nosolosw

  • The releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software. took quite a bit of bandwidth over the last week!
  • Outside of the release, a major focus was preparing presets for line-height and padding (and adapting the UIUI User interface controls accordingly).
  • Next week, I’ll carry on that presets for line-height and padding work, and hope to help porting to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. for 5.5. 

@mcsf

  • Reviewing a bunch of stuff!
  • Trying to weigh in/unblock a variety of discussions from FSE, design tools, block context, and more.
  • In close contact with @ellatrix to see how I/we can help her in her 5.5 editor lead role.

@youknowriad

  • Worked on improvements to Popover behavior.
  • Updated the colors used in Gutenberg components to rely on CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. variables.
  • Opened a PR to expand anchor support to all static blocks.
  • Working on the quick inserter.
  • On my mind to work more on stabilizing e2e tests.

@itsjonq

  • Focused mainly on Design Tools.
  • Looking over issues (feature requests) and researching external designs/experiences to see how we could improve these tools.
  • So far, most applications of design tools have centered around the Cover block. Under the hood, there’s been work to unlock/enable customizations to other blocks though. Approaching it more like APIs, rather than ad-hoc enhancements

@sageshilling

@itsjusteileen 

@mkaz

  • A follow up from last weeks discussion around Documentation, the 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.) was switched back to master, so published Gutenberg docs are now top of tree. Exploring ways to create a version switcher. Thanks @coffee2code for the assist in ticket #5266.

@michael-arestad

  • Reviewing issues/PRs for 5.5. Please 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.” me if there’s an issue/PR planned for 5.5 that needs design feedback/review/help.
  • Starting in again on designing flows for creating new templates. – might be good for a zoom jam (stay tuned).
  • Proposed an iteration on the reusable block (and template part) UI.
  • Updated the e2e prototype and got good feedback. The next iteration will be broken up into specific flows.

@ntsekoura

  • Worked on a merged PR about consolidating disparate “copy block” actions, when we copy from keyboard and when copy from Block Toolbar.

@ella

  • Focused on figuring out what things need to happen for WP 5.5 Beta, and helping out where I can. Looks like navigation and widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. screens are unlikely to be included given the time that’s left. I’m optimistic about including the currently experimental image editor, but there’s still quite a few things to do.
  • Going forward, will make sure remaining issues are tracked and worked on. Note that any refinements also need to be included before 5.5 Beta as afterwards we only 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. regressions.

@poena

  • Stuck on the former FSE post categories / now hierarchical taxonomy block because I don’t know how to get the custom taxonomies that a post (or custom post typeCustom Post Type WordPress can hold and display many different types of content. A single item of such a content is generally called a post, although post is also a specific post type. Custom Post Types gives your site the ability to have templated posts, to simplify the concept.) uses. This was flagged for dev help!

@gziolo

  • Worked on server side rendering for blocks – block.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. + REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. + register_block_type_from_metadata.
  • Worked on 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. fixes and enhancements for npm packages with tooling – wordpress/scripts, wordpress/create-block and other, lots of reviews for work done by @ocean90.

@noisysocks:

  • Working on the Navigation screen, specifically picking up #22656 again which lets you add Search blocks alongside Link blocks.

@annezazu

  • Working on resources for the FSE outreach program (will be dropping drafts for the group to review this week in #fse-outreach-experiment), doing triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. focused on needs-testing, and trying to do my own testing with the Gutenberg experiments (found this fun bug).

Open Floor

Is there any interface for a theme to supply a list of classes that could be used as a datalist for the Block sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme. Advanced class input? Raised by @joyously.

For greater context, @joyously is looking for a user to be able to put theme-supplied classes into the Advanced class input box. @youknowriad jumped in to provide context. The closest solution offered was “style variations”. However, you can’t apply multiple styles at the same time or use custom classNames instead of style-*. Both of these suggestions have related issues right now.

Next Step: @joyously can chime in on related GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ discussions around style variations. There’s this main issue here for allowing custom style classNames and a general list of style variation themed issues.

Introduction for the media for block editor proposal. Raised by @sageshilling.

This will be about a year and a half project. If you’re curious to see what’s being proposed, you can see the initial proposal here in #core-media. While there were some questions and concerns raised including making sure this is built step by step within the Gutenberg Repo, this was meant purely as an initial introduction with more information to come in future meetings.

Next step: @sageshilling will share more information in the #core-media meeting tomorrow and in the comments of this post as necessary.

A reminder to not ignore intermittent test failures with e2e tests and to make tests even more robust when possible. Raised by @youknowriad.

I just wanted to share that end 2 end tests has not been very stable lately. And very often when we have an instability we have a tendency to think: oh it’s not related to my PR, so we just restart the test until it passes and forget about it. I have been guilty of doing so myself and I’d like to encourage the regular contributors to “stop” ignoring these intermittent test failures and when possible take time to debug and make the tests more robust even if not directly originating from our own PRs.

Why was the decision made to not have width and height attributes specified at all times for images? Raised by @flixos90.

Recently, @flixos90 opened a trac ticket around specifying missing width and height attributes for images in WordPress. Right now, not having these attributes defined causes an increased amount of layout shifting as images are being loaded. Historically, the classic editor has always provided these attributes, so the user experience has somewhat regressed with Gutenberg in that sense. Gutenberg only provides these attributes in the core/image block when the image is resized.

While there was some discussion here, we agreed this issue seems to have a lot of history and no one in the meeting could answer with certainty.

Next Step: @flixos90 is going to open up a GitHub issue to open up the conversation to see if greater historical information can be found and a way forward can be worked on.

How to resolve issues with Gutenberg.run? Raised by @itsjusteileen.

Right now, there are some issues with getting gutenberg.run, a PR testing tool, to run (pun intended).

Next Step: @itsjusteileen is going to open an issue in the Gutenberg.run repository.

What do people think of the idea of an ESLint 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 to discourage the use of some (but not all) Lodash functions when there’s a close vanilla JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. equivalent? Raised by @zebulan.

There were varying opinions and ideas thrown out including the thought that perhaps this isn’t worth optimizing for. There are a few ESLint plugins of this sort already that could be explored. Generally though, this topic was out of scope for this meeting.

Next Step: @zebulan added this to the agenda for #core-js meeting next week as this is a better spot to discuss this question.

#meeting-notes, #core-editor, #editor, #gutenberg, #core-editor-summary

annezazu 5:51 pm on May 27, 2020
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Editor Chat Summary: 27th May, 2020

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript). This meeting was held in the #core-editor 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 on Wednesday, May 27, 2020,14:00 UTC and was moderated by @itsjusteileen.

Quick Announcements

WordPress 5.5 Upcoming ReleaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software. 

The planning roundup for 5.5 can be found here. There are several features that are under an experimental flag in Gutenberg, and to have a chance to makemake A collection of P2 blogs at make.wordpress.org, which are the home to a number of contributor groups, including core development (make/core, formerly "wpdevel"), the UI working group (make/ui), translators (make/polyglots), the theme reviewers (make/themes), resources for plugin authors (make/plugins), and the accessibility working group (make/accessibility). it for 5.5 they’d need to be out of experimental by July 7th. This led to a quick discussion that the widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. screen can soon leave the experimental state!

@matveb chimed in to share the following later on to highlight that there’s plenty to do beyond the main projects that are underway if people want to/can help:

I wanted to mention that while many groups are focused on larger pieces of work (FSE, global styles, navigation, etc) 5.5 will require some focus on ensuring what exists right now is in good shape. That includes shipping the new design, patterns, the new inserter with new categories, new APIs and deprecations, etc.

Gutenberg version 8.2

Gutenberg RC candidate 8.2.0 was released this week with the stable release launched just after this meeting ended. Update your sites and check out what’s new.

Monthly Plan

There was limited discussion on the specifics of the current monthly priorities.

Task Coordination

Note: Anyone reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment in the post summary, if you can/want to help with something.

@poena

  • Flagged this issue as needing a decision about the dynamic content with @matveb chiming in to say that there needs to be closer parity with the current theme experience as a start.

@paaljoachim

@nosolosw

  • Focusing on a new iteration of theme.json and early documentation for it.
  • Helping with reviews and other PRs, mainly in the areas of styles & 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. registration.

@michael-arestad

  • Dropping a new figma prototype very shortly on inserting saved (and new) template parts that deviates from previous designs and the current implementation. 
  • Planning to create a new issue with designs/discussion around a vertical grid for template building (and general layout things).
  • Planning to update the end to end full site editing prototype (i4).

@sageshilling

  • Working with coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-media data flow, design gallery, image block, gallery patterns.

@mapk

  • Working on the widgets screen with @jorgefilipecosta.
  • Updating UIUI User interface issues/PRs with Figma label.
  • Providing feedback on FSE work.
  • Redesign of spotlight mode with @youknowriad.

@karmatosed

  • Focusing deeply on navigation with a side order of triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors..

@andraganescu

  • Various work on the navigation screen
  • Added new suggestion types to LinkControl
  • Continued the work on adding delete to Entities

@nrqsnchz

  • working with @michael-arestad on inserting saved (and new) template parts (FSE).

@zebulan

  • Add RichText split-at-end/merge/remove behavior.
  • Add usePrevious hook to @wordpress/compose package.
  • Use toolbar exclusively for heading level controls in Heading Block
  • PR to replace instances of Lodash.includes with native JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. [].includes in the block-editor package is awaiting reviews.
  • PR to refactor ReusableBlockEditPanel to use ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same. is awaiting reviews.
  • PR for the Table of Contents Block needs technical help/feedback in order to progress along with 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) feedback.
  • PR for the Reusable Block edit component has made progress thanks to feedback/help but has one remaining behavior issue that’s blocking it.
  • Polish Custom HTML block PR is ready to go, assuming the stylistic changes are okay. Please provide design feedback.
  • Started a PR to update the Quote Block to use a light block wrapper but got stuck and need technical help to move forward. Solving this will help other blocks use light block wrappers.
  • Started a PR to add color controls to the List block but running into problems with style conflicts on most default WordPress themes.
  • Started a PR to add a heading level checker to the Heading block, based on prior efforts in this issue.

@itsjonq

  • Adding Padding controls
  • Working on video Background position controls
  • Working on cover image auto dominant colour detection

Open Floor

@youknowriad shared helpful guidelines for folks creating PRs to make the changelog easier to automatically compile.

  • When working on experimental screens and features, apply the [Type] Experimental label instead of Feature, Enhancement, etc.
  • When working on new features to technical packages (scripts, create-block, adding  react hooks, etc), apply the [Type] New API label instead of Feature, Enhancement, etc.
  • When fixing 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. or making an enhancementenhancement Enhancements are simple improvements to WordPress, such as the addition of a hook, a new feature, or an improvement to an existing feature. to an internal tool used in the project, apply the [Type] Build Tooling instead of Bugs, Enhancement, etc.
  • In PR titles, instead of describing the code change done to fix an issue, consider referring to the actual bug being fixed instead. For example: instead of saying “Check for nullable object in component”, it would be preferable to say “Fix editor breakage when clicking the copy block button”.
  • Take the time to choose the right [Type] label for your PRs. With some updates to the changelog command (type priorities), we should be able to support multiple types on a PR for some of the examples above.

Next step: @annezazu will look into updating both triage documentation and contributor documentation as appropriate.

Will core-editor participate in Contributor Day and should this be mentioned to participants? Raised by @itsjusteileen.

Yes! @youknowriad is planning to do a quick zoom chat to help people setup a Gutenberg environment at the beginning of the day. To come prepared, please have “Docker” + Latest node.JS LTS setup. This is also mentioned above under announcements.

Listing names in the code owners document to better understand who can be pinged for help/a review. Raised by @paaljoachim.

Paal encouraged everyone to review this document and keep it up to date. @karmatosed mentioned that relying on solid labeling alongside bringing in specific people from that list will likely help more for getting everyone to see issues appropriately.

#meeting-notes, #core-editor, #editor, #gutenberg, #core-editor-summary

Paul Barthmaier (pbrocks) 10:32 pm on May 20, 2020
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Core-Editor Dev Chat May 20, 2020

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting, held in the #core-editor Slack channel, on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 10:00 AM EDT. These meetings coordinate collaboration in the development evolution of the 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/ project. You can find today’s agenda here. Facilitator: @pbrocks

Recap

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 5.5 — Checkout the Planning Roundup here

Gutenberg items to ship:

  • 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. UIUI User interface Redesign
  • Block Patterns
  • Hundreds of small improvements and  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. fixes

Gutenberg items we hope will ship but we’re not certain yet due to the deadlines:

  • Navigation screen and block
  • Widgets screen block-based
  • Global styles

Gutenberg version 8.1

Released last week containing:

  • Pattern searching
  • Copy block
  • Iterations on experimental screens
  • Embed transform to paragraph block.

Monthly Plan

What’s next in Gutenberg outlines the goals for May. There was no additional discussion around the current goals.

Task Coordination

@sageshilling

  • working with core-media data flow, design gallery, image block, gallery patterns…block_id

@mkaz

  • Diving into docs and addressing needs highlighted here Issue 22151

@karmatosed  

  • My main priority right now is navigation, navigation and oh yes navigation! I am working with some awesome peeps there.
  • I have a side order of triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. and ensuring any tickets I touched have feedback.

@andraganescu

  • As part of the ongoing work on the experimental navigation screen, I have added a _delete_ functionality for core data entities. If you are someone who uses entities this is interesting to get right so any feedback is welcome:

@youknowriad 

  • I’ve worked on a new CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. command to automate performance tests across branches/versions
  • Fixing some bugs related to Color palettes
  • Looking at some UI parity work between edit-post and edit-site

@q

  • I’m continuing to help improve the Cover block, mostly around customization and the UI/UXUX User experience of those controls.
    • Adding Padding Controls
    • Improving Color controls
    • Improving Background controls

@ajlende 

  • I’m working on getting the first pass / rough draft of rich image editing now that it’s unblocked again. Still need to know how best to limit for testing as experimental and where it should live. 

@michaelarestad

  • I’m working on template part flows, how they could fit with a site-wide column grid, and hopefully flows for setting up a new template.

@nrqsnchz

  • Merged the new Welcome Guide design, which includes support for prefers-reduced-motion
  • Worked on and merged a couple of block patterns
  • Fight Travis tests, as I usually do

@nosolosw

  • My main focus was the managed CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. PR. It’ll remain my main focus for next week.
  • 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. docs generation: audited & updated the list of packages (some are up for grabs, 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.” me if you’re interested in helping and don’t know how to do it) and documented the steps.
  • A bunch of other things: help with reviews, enable only stage-4 JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. syntax, etc.

@nfmohit 

  • I’m still working on a vertical style for the Buttons block.

@isabel_brison (tellthemachines)

  • working on a prototype for moving blocks between nesting levels with the keyboard and would love some feedback and testing on it! Also addresses the inability to move between nesting levels in navigation mode.

Open Floor

@zeb asks for review of the PRs listed in the agenda comments 

@annezazu The form for the Full Site Editing outreach project is open until May 22nd now: 

@mkaz

I’ve got one with regards to documentation I think we should revisit the idea of publishing off the releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software. 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.), and instead be versioning at the unit level. For example, the core docs include the version and changelog for each function. 

@nickthegeek

Looking for comments/help with this Issue 22332 Add screen reader only text format

@noisysocks asked for comments and review on Navigation

`A few of us (@talldanwp @andraganescu @isabel_brison @zieladam @karmatosed) have been building out a rudimentary replacement for nav-menus.php which is based on the Navigation block UI. This new screen is in a semi functional state and you can see it by switching on the Navigation experiment in the latest Gutenberg.

A new [Feature] Navigation Screen label tracks issues to do with this new screen, and the Navigation in 5.5 project board tracks work that we think is important for this feature to land in WordPress 5.5. If you’re interested in helping out with this project, please feel free to pick up one of the tasks in the project board. You can also ping me (@noisysocks) if you have questions or need guidance! `

@zeb expressed concerns with the current navigation interface, specifically referencing wanting to see the following issues addressed;

  • Issue 22089 Navigator iterations: ellipsis and movers
  • Issue 22297 Block Navigator/Navigation: Drag & Drop

The in-depth conversation can be followed in Slack archives. With the team in agreement to continue the conversation in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ with @karmatosed noting the navigation feature is still under an experimental flag and is in an iterative design process.

#meeting-notes #core-editor-summary
Paal Joachim Romdahl 11:07 am on May 7, 2020
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Editor chat Summary: 6 May, 2020

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting agenda here. Held on Wednesday, 6th May 2020 held in Slack. Facilitated by @paaljoachim.

Monthly Plan

What’s next in 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/? (May)
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/05/06/whats-next-in-gutenberg-may/

A summary from @youknowriad
Let’s do aa small recap about the previous months and the next one:
– We did some good progress about the 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. Patterns on the last month
– FSE Site Builder screen is getting closer in terms of parity with the post editor, there’s still some work left
– FSE: we worked on the context 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., it was a bit more complex than originally anticipated but we landed something
– Navigation screen continues to improve
– Implemented several Global Styles config per block (colors, line height,…)
The priorities remain mostly the same because most of these are big projects we’re polishing and improving.

Some highlights to come:
– Query Blocks
– More iterations to the patterns (categories)
– Sibling inserter redesign maybe
– Continue on Site Builder and Navigation Screen
– Expand theme.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. capabilities

Task Coordination

@karmatosed
Different blocks in navigation: 22096
Sub-nav improvements: 22087
Ellipsis and movers: 22089
All my other focus is on triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors., “needs design” and “design feedback” label has replies.

@nosolosw
I’ve worked on style things at various levels:
– theme.json: convos & reviews about its role to control the editor.
– Global styles: expose style presets (font-size, color, gradients) as CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. vars.
– Editor styles: fix for font-sizes.
Also contributed to some misc things such as convos and PR about the 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/. version we support, and provide feedback on switching the JSDoc parser we use for our API docs tool.

@mkaz and @annezazu
Working on a plan to improve block editor docs.

@youknowriad
– Worked a little bit on some follow-ups to the Patterns UIUI User interface (search support)
– Worked on some small refactorings PRs, 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. fixes and performance.
– Planning to focus more on the categories support for patterns.

@andraganescu
– I am mostly working on the new nav screen project.
– 21557 PR in progress of adding a new feature to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. data entities delete.
– I constantly try to do more reviews!

@nrqsnchz
– I continue to work on iterations to the Welcome Guide.
– Starting to take a dive into Full Site Editing with Inserting existing saved template parts.
– Started to put together a matrix of pattern categories in a spreadsheet found in other site builders so we can get a better idea of what categories we’d want to have in the inserter.

@pstonier
I’ve been finalizing adding the functionality to filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. the Latest Posts block by author and added the ability to show the author in the list: 16169

@michael-arestad
– Posted a prototype of a page switcher when editing site. (could use some feedback)
– Iteration on template partial creation – (needs dev)
– Proposed persistent block navigator.
Next up:
– Iterate on template partial insertion.
– Explore transforming template partials.
– Could use help with implementation of multi-entity saving.

@mapk
Search block enhancements.
Block mover explorations.
Helping to push scheduled post PR forward with @earnjam.
Providing feedback where I can.

@retrofox
First approach on improving tips. Looked at contextual tips issue.
The idea is being able to register tips defining description, scope, etc.
Related issues
Add rotating block-specific tips to the inserter’s help panel.
Compile a list of possible block-specific tips.
Consider adding adding a rotating Tips area to the block sidebar.
Blocks: Contextual tips tied to specific search queries.

@brentswisher
Hoping to finish adding storybook stories for components this week.
Hoping to review: Storybook: Add DateTimePicker.

@marek
Improving the post scheduling process by showing you what dates you’ve already scheduled for. Needs feedback/reviews.

@zieladam
Working on visual improvements to the navigation block (#22107) and experimenting with making menu items editable in the inspector on the experimental nav menus page (#21948).

@Zeb
– Table of Contents block.
Done: Added multipage post support. Ability to toggle if all multipage headings are listed.
Needs: technical reviews/feedback, 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) and copy reviews. A G2 icon.
– Heading block H1-H6 level control. Needs: design and technical reviews.
– Custom HTML block polish PR that could use another design review.
– PR: Enable backspace to remove empty Navigation links. Needs help to fix issues and how to handle certain scenarios like removing a Navigation Link with children.
– PR: List block: add color controls. Stuck: Editor style conflicts.
Resolving this PR would open the door to adding color controls to other blocks that use HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. lists (e.g. Latest Posts or Table of Contents).
– PR: PreviewOptions: remove chevron from button. What should the button look like, since it’s text/border styles are inconsistent with the Save Draft button.
– PR: Embed: use same SmugMug URL regex as core. Needs: Review.
– PR: Refactor reusable block edit component using hooks and Refactor ReusableBlockEditPanel to use hooks (and add type info) both need reviews.
– PR: Polish block wrapper elements file. Needs: Review.

Open Floor

Discussing the need to find additional people to review PRs.

@youknowriad
We have 137 on the GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ team on Gutenberg that can approve PRs. How can we increase the confidence level of these people to actually review and approve PRs?
@earnjam
…Work on more areas = more confident to makemake A collection of P2 blogs at make.wordpress.org, which are the home to a number of contributor groups, including core development (make/core, formerly "wpdevel"), the UI working group (make/ui), translators (make/polyglots), the theme reviewers (make/themes), resources for plugin authors (make/plugins), and the accessibility working group (make/accessibility). a decision regarding those things.
@aduth
It’s something I was really hopeful CODEOWNERS approach would help with. Where people can specialize in certain areas of the codebase, and it’s fine to focus in those areas. At this point, I think Gutenberg has scaled to such a size that no single person can possibly know how it all works.
@karmatosed
Ideas from experience with triage:
Open sessions for learning how to review PRs. During these go through a few and pick out gotchas and gain confidence through doing.
Mentoring/pairing on PR reviews.

@owoce
Asked for interest in..
Multi-select: add a toolbar with formatting options when multiple blocks are selected. Owoce started some work on this as a 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 (repo) but she is hoping to get something like this into the editor itself.
@youknowriad
Riad shared an example from an older multi select PR that stalled.
@paaljoachim and @youknowriad
Both mentioned that it would be good to create a Github issue when questioner is ready to do so as to continue discussion in an issue.
In the mean time check out her Gutenberg-multi-edit plugin currently at alpha stage.

@brentswisher
Github is having their satellite conference virtually and free this year here: https://githubsatellite.com/schedule/ if someone is looking for learning opportunities.

@kjellr
NB! A heads-up to label issues and PRs that impact theme styling or markup with the label: [Feature] Themes

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg

Jorge Costa 2:57 pm on April 30, 2020
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Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 29 April 2020

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 29 April 2020, 14:00 UTC held in Slack.

WordPress 5.4.1

@jorgefilipecosta said WordPress 5.4.1 was released on the last Friday and that the RC includes all the editor fixes expected on the final releaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software.. Concluding that unless we discover something critical until the release in some hours, he does not expect any additional task on the editor side. The editor fixes included in WordPress 5.4.1 can be checked at https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pulls?q=is%3Apr+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3A%22Backport+to+WP+Core%22+is%3Aclosed.

@jorgefilipecosta gave public kudos to @whyisjake or handling the tasks needed for the release!

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/ 8.0.0

@aduth shared the following update regarding Gutenberg 8.0.0:

The 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). was released on Monday. There were a couple of bugs that were discovered between then and today and will be included as part of today’s release. Everything is looking okay on my end as far as releasing Gutenberg 8.0 today.

@youknowriad shared that the highlights of the release are:

  • Patterns moved to the inserter and the inserter as a panel
  • Add subscript and superscript formatting options

@jorgefilipecosta said that the last coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. releases included ten Gutenberg releases. Gutenberg 8.0.0 is the fifth Gutenberg release since WordPress 5.4 so more or less half of the things WordPress 5.5 editor is going to include are already out.

Monthly Plan & Weekly Priorities

Soon we are going to have the monthly plan for may. Regarding the April plan available at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/04/01/whats-next-in-gutenberg-april/, @mapk said he thinks everyone did really well and @youknowriad agreed and said we’re on a good pace these days and we’ll need to start thinking about the High-level priorities for May.

Task Coordination

@youknowriad

Has been working on some follow-ups to the Patterns and Inserter work:

  • Support search
  • Rename APIs
  • Makemake A collection of P2 blogs at make.wordpress.org, which are the home to a number of contributor groups, including core development (make/core, formerly "wpdevel"), the UI working group (make/ui), translators (make/polyglots), the theme reviewers (make/themes), resources for plugin authors (make/plugins), and the accessibility working group (make/accessibility). the core patterns translatable

He said there are still a lot more follow-ups there. H will continue there and will also keep an eye on the FSE work in general.

@aduth

Has been focused on:

  • 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. context: The first iteration landed last week. It still needs follow-up work to flesh out the PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 APIs.
  • 8.0 release: Wrangling, also made changes to and helped land a new changelog generator tool which will be helpful to expedite the process for future releases.

@mcsf

Has been involved in PR reviews and issue discussions in

  • Pasting, transforms
  • Block content, versions
  • Full-site editing and block-based themes

@nosolosw

In the past week, his main focuses were:

Next, he is going to resume work on the block style system, global styles, etc.

@q

Has been focused on:

  • Cover Block: Continuing work on padding controls and alignment tools

@sageshilling

Working on the gallery, looking at keeping the current gallery block, while building out a pattern(s) for the gallery, as a container with block images. Working on the data flow, design flow, and then build out from there. 5.5 will have both the current gallery block, and the pattern gallery(ies).

@andraganescu

Has been AFK for a week. Attended some of his open work about the new navigation menus screen, refactored the author block, and re-added setting post author from it.

@nrqsnchz

Is working on Iterations on the welcome guide and will soon start helping with FSE work, mainly Inserting existing saved template parts and Edit Site: Creating a new template from scratch.

@michaelarestad

Is focusing on:

@mapk

Is following up on a few PRs:

  • Clearing the publish date with @earnjam
  • Labels on buttons with @nicolad
  • Looking at drag n drop and mover interactions a bit more.

@jorgefilipecosta

During the last week, helped/reviewed the tasks needed for 5.4.1. I submitted many 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. fixes and also some enhancements to the widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. screen. For the next week, he wants to continue some enhancements to the widget screen and to work on undo-redo and make sure it works as expected on the three screens: edit-post, edit-site, edit-widgets (it seems we have some issues on the last two). Lastly, he plans to continue interactions on some PR’s he has, namely CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. vars for predefined colors, as that PR is impactful for global styles.

@gziolo

Plans to continued on block editor features and last week did the following tasks:

  • worked on CSS support for build and start commands from wordpress/scripts
  • landed a few smaller bug fixes
  • helped @ajlende to land debugging support for unit and e2e tests

@karmatosed

Her main focuses are navigation and design triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.. Said that we are getting in a good place with nav-menus.php thanks to so much amazing dev work. Shared that the navigation project board is a great place for dropping in for feedback there and testing as the release surfaces.

Open Floor

Code debugging

@john said:

I’m confused about how to debug custom gutenberg blocks when you need to see and play with the gutenberg source code. If the docs are unclear, and I need to poke around in the source code, I can’t because all the packages are run via build files. So if I was to run a “console.log” to see what happens in the getSaveElement filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output.… nothing happens.

Is there a proper way to access the entire codebase so I can see what’s happening inside functions that gutenberg provides 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 developers? I’m not skilled enough to just READ the code. I need to actually be able to run console.logs inside the Gutenberg core while developing a plugin. But I can’t find a way to do that.

@youknowriad referred that maybe nothing happens because it’s not executed at all. And made some questions to better understand the problem.

@aduth said:

@john Instead of using the plugin from the plugin repository, you can clone the source code from GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ to your wp-content/plugins. From there, you can treat it like you would when developing in Gutenberg itself, starting the build process with npm run dev or npm run build from within Gutenberg. You should see any changes to the source reflected in the plugin running on your site.

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/master/docs/contributors/getting-started.md

Asset Licences

In the agenda of the meeting @poena said:

If there has not been one, there needs to be a license review of all third party assets.

I was not able to find any information for the included images (for example, block patterns and FSE demo content) and icons (social media).

Licence must be considered when any such element is included in the plugin.

I am not familiar with how you review licensing for third party scripts, but I am not able to find a list of licenses and copyright anywhere.

@aduth said that there is a license check tool used for all third-party dependencies installed through NPM. And @youknoriad said he knows that all images used in patterns and block examples are public domain images and that each time we want to use a new one we create a 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. tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for it and check the license there.

@poena asked if it is correct to not even credit the public domain images?

@aduth and @youknowriad both said that although they are not lawyers they believe public domain does not require any attribution.

@poena followed up the question and asked about the icons.

@youknowriad said wordpress/icons are a mix of Dashicons and custom-built icons so he believes all of them are WP made. I know some might have been inspired by Material ones.

@poena said that when people take something from core/GB and place it elsewhere, We can’t just say that the images have the same license as core/plugin because core/plugin is GPLGPL GNU General Public License. Also see copyright license. and some images may be public domain for example.

@nrqsnchz said that this was why we decided to go with text-only patterns for now. We couldn’t find a good library of images that was also compatible with WP’s license.

@aduth said It would be good if it could be communicated something consistent like “all images and content distributed through patterns are [a: public domain][b: distributed as GPL]”.

@youknowriad said if a plugin/theme is GPL, it can just reuse anything WP provides if not, you need to check per case. @poena followed up saying It’s not that simple and that we know that from twenty nineteen.

@poena concluded the topic by saying that she just wanted people to be mindful when they make their pull requests.

#block-editor, #chats, #core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #meeting, #meeting-notes

annezazu 3:42 pm on April 22, 2020
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Editor Chat Summary: 22nd April, 2020

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting (agenda, slack transcript). This meeting was held in the #core-editor 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 on Wednesday, April 15, 2020,14:00 UTCand was moderated by @paaljoachim.

WordPress 5.4.1 Upcoming ReleaseRelease A release is the distribution of the final version of an application. A software release may be either public or private and generally constitutes the initial or new generation of a new or upgraded application. A release is preceded by the distribution of alpha and then beta versions of the software.

Note: There was a miscommunication around this release and these notes originally expected the launch to happen the same day as the meeting. This has been corrected.

@jorgefilipecosta shared a comment prior to the meeting detailing the plan for 5.4.1 RC. All 5 PR’s to include were in 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/ 7.9, meaning they were tested in at least one 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. This RC release is slated for Friday with the full release planned for next Wednesday per an update from @whyisjake.

Weekly Priorities

No discussion on weekly or monthly priorities. 

Task Coordination

Note: Anyone reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment in the post summary, if you can/want to help with something.

@zebulan

  • Needs reviews for a Table of Contents PR. Ideally would like a G2-style 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. icon, but can merge with the current dashicon.
  • Needs technical and design feedback on a PR to update the heading level control in the Heading block.
  • Needs reviews for Two Reusable Block PRs with 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. fixes.
  • Needs reviews for a Custom HTML Block PR.
  • Needs reviews for 3 quick PRs: polishing black wrapper, new icon for navigation block, and matching SmugMug URL regex to core.
  • Stuck on a List Block Color Controls PR after running into a problem around priority with styles between the default editor and the block. 
  • Ran into an issue with a Navigation Links PR where focus doesn’t move to the previous navigation link after removing the block. 

@get_dave

  • Has been working on the ability to create a Navigation block from existing WP Menus. @karmatosed posted a new design route that we need feedback on if people have time to review.  

@marek

Open floor

Should we keep CONTRIBUTORS.md? Raised by @soean.

Only 140 people are listed, but we have more than 550 code contributors, so it is not up-to-date. We don’t use this file in other repos. A GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can 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/ -> WordPress connection is now built in on wp.org.

Discussion ticket started by @mkaz:

  • We don’t use this kind of file in other WordPress repos. 
  • The file overall is a bit confusing and it doesn’t seem to be a great way to acknowledge all contributors currently. 
  • There are inconsistencies in who is added with some long term contributors missing.
  • The file itself seems to be for highlighting non code contributors to the project.
  • The contributors tracking that GitHub provides only shows contributors for specific timeframes. 
  • @soean shared this neat project https://allcontributors.org/ that might be interesting to explore.

Next Steps: @mkaz will update the file to provide a link to the code contributors listed on GitHub, followed by the list of non-code contributors. If people have other thoughts, please add to the ticket to discuss. 

Is using `render_callback` a good solution for handling conditionally loading assets? Raised by @mkaz.

This question is based on a long standing but stalled out ticket trying to address this within Gutenberg automatically. @mkaz wrote a post examining `render_callback` but this approach  requires each plugin/block to set it up. If this is determined to be a best practice to move forward on, we should likely update documentation to encourage developers to take a similar approach. 

Next Step: We didn’t have enough folks online to have a robust discussion about this so @mkaz will create a discussion ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. to carry the conversation forward. 

Problems with the Drag & Drop Experience explored in this ticket. Raised by @jules-colle.

There are general concerns around how the current experience is continuing negative perceptions of Gutenberg for end users. Right now the problems are adding up leading to both a rough experience and an overwhelming set of problems. Right now, it seems the issues would benefit from being broken down into smaller pieces.  

Next Step: Thoughts are welcome on this main ticket.

Should we give more folks access to @here abilities in slack?

At the beginning of the meeting, we realized no one had permissions to @here in slack to alert folks to the meeting. This led to a quieter meeting this time around but we likely should expand access to those who run meetings so we can ensure better meeting engagement.

#meeting-notes, #core-editor, #editor, #gutenberg

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