Paal Joachim Romdahl 3:01 pm on May 5, 2020
Tags: agenda ( 459 ), core-editor, core-editor-agenda ( 14 ), gutenberg ( 182 )

Editor Chat Agenda: 6 May, 2020

Facilitator and notetaker: @paaljoachim.

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for 2020-05-06 14:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

Monthly Plan & Weekly Priorities
Task Coordination
Open Floor

If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.

If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

#agenda, #core-editor, #editor-chat

#agenda, #core-editor, #core-editor-agenda, #gutenberg

Jorge Costa 2:57 pm on April 30, 2020
Tags: block-editor ( 16 ), chats ( 13 ), core-editor, core-editor-summary ( 12 ), gutenberg ( 182 ), meeting ( 37 ), meeting notes ( 81 )

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-sitesite (versus network, blog) editing and block-based themes

@nosolosw

In the past week, his main focuses were:

Transforms 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.: new docs, bugfix for shortcode pasting.
Help with refactor docgen (our lib to API docs generation) to use the same code parser that Gutenberg.

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:

Propose specific designs for various site navigation techniques
Posting mocks/assets for Home page indicator
Iterating on template partial insertion/creation – [ two issues]
Maintain end to end FSE prototype

@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

Andrew Duthie 7:10 pm on April 29, 2020
Tags: core-editor, editor ( 147 ), gutenberg ( 182 ), gutenberg-new ( 67 )

What’s new in Gutenberg (29 April)

In this 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. of GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ 8.0, there is a continued effort to refine the experience around the new 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 feature. Additional formatting options for subscript and superscript text have been added, and the code editor has been improved to be more like how one would expect a code editor to look and feel.

Patterns Inserter

To allow a user to browse and insert block patterns, a new tab-panel interface has been added to the Block Inserter. In order to afford additional space for browsing patterns, the top-level inserter has been redesigned to appear as a panel that appears adjacent to the block list when toggled.

Animation inserting a block pattern using the inserter

Inline Formatting

Previously, the availability of formatting options was constrained by the limited space available in a block toolbar. The inclusion of a collapsible dropdown list of formatting options opens the possibility to add a variety of new formatting options for more niche use-cases. This release adds two new formatting options: subscript and superscript.

Animation formatting text of chemical formula using subscript

Code Editor

This release improves the code editor by embracing what it is: a code editor. The Code Editor now uses a monospace font for the title, and the editor resizes to the viewport.

8.0 🇧🇬

Features

Add subscript and superscript formatting options. (21819)
Move the Block Patterns UIUI User interface to the inserter. (20951)
Improve layout and usability of code editor. (21643)

Enhancements

Add inserter previews to more blocks. (21740)
Performance improvements:
- Import from individual reactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/.-dates component. (21914)
- Upgrade showdown Markdown processor library. (21862)
Allow title and button-based appender to inherit styles. (21749)
Output float clearing for all centered blocks. (21608)
Update ‘Welcome Guide’ illustrations. (21515)

New APIs

A new Block Context API has been partially implemented, currently limited to block settings and editor APIs. PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 APIs will be implemented in the next 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 releases. (21467, 21868, 21921)
Add new “G2”-styled icons to the Icons package. (21209)

Bug Fixes

Change wp_make_content_images_responsive to wp_filter_content_tags to resolve warnings in WordPress 5.5-alpha. (21514)
Collapse selection to end after link insertion. (17126)
Fix selected categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. on existing Latest Posts blocks. (21359)
Fix overlapping column contents for embeds. (21570)
Fix focus styling for date picker calendar days. (21600)
NPM Packages
- Fix “Cannot find module ‘../utils'” error. (21609)
- Types: Hide element, primitives, icons declarations. (21613, 21784)
Inherit font styles in block appender placeholder. (21725)
Allow default pasting behavior in FontSizePicker. (21812)
Prevent negative custom text sizes. (21815)
Fix image center alignment behavior. (21911)
Fix centered buttons margins. (21947)
Revert the button block to the previous markup. (21923)
Avoid using inline RichText element for navigation link. (21856)
Ensure resetEditorBlocks is synchronous. (21839)
Fix the button outline style for the old button markup. (21816)
Fix default attribute on audio preload. (21735)
Fix gradient picker double-click 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.. (21732)
Fix broken links in handbook. (21686)
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). useMediaQuery return the correct value on the first render. (21682)
Fix visual issue on windows with 782px. (21661)
Allow wrapping for Navigation block links. (21632)
Remove redundant margins from the columns block. (21615)
Fix media Text padding on inner blocks. (21612)
Restore floated image margins. (21500)
Fix URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org display for scheduled posts. (21410)
Test keycode modifiers for keyboard event as exclusive set. (20733)
Fix focus loss for Guide “Finish” button in Internet Explorer. (20599)
Replace incorrect Snackbar label attribute with aria-label. (20540)

Experiments

Add experimental useEditorFeature hook to simplify access to editor features. (21646)
Navigation menuNavigation Menu A theme feature introduced with Version 3.0. WordPress includes an easy to use mechanism for giving various control options to get users to click from one place to another on a site. page:
- Try a fixed toolbar in the navigation page. (21340)
- Fix panel collapsing in navigation page. (21633)
- Fix mobile layout for navigation menu page. (21638)
- Delete empty spaces in menu 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/. endpoint strings. (21453)
Edit sitesite (versus network, blog):
- Add current theme to template switcher. (21578, 21768)
- Declare attributes for Template Part block in block.json. (21796)
- Update end-to-end test for multi-entity saving in site editor. (21363)
- Add preview options component. (21309)
- Improve template parts resolution and saving behavior. (21766)
- Support REST API 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. queries. (21851)
- Add extra validation when loading template parts. (21636)
Block directory:
- Add InserterPanel around block directory results. (21748)
Widgets:
- Fix legacy widgets z-index issue. (21586)
- Fix legacy widgets visual issues. (21585)

Deprecations

Add deprecation notice to useApiFetch hook. (21723)

Code Quality

Remove nested breakpoint in fullscreen mode CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets.. (21496)
Update npm-package-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.-lint from 4.0.3 to 5.0.0. (21597)
Update npm dependencies that warn. (21596)
Fix license check script to ignore sub-dependencies of ignored packages. (21606)
Package TypeScript types improvements:
- Mark addQueryArgs arguments parameter as optional. (21926)
- Relax i18ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill. sprintf arguments type. (21919)
Update PHPCS to latest version. (21680)
Unify how editor alignments are applied across blocks. (21822)
Remove obsolete editor alignment classes. (21906)
Remove old icons. (21821)
Implement block.json for blocks. (21794, 21783, 21782, 21775, 21787, 21774, 21792)
Use register_block_type_from_metadata in Latest Posts block. (21788)
Polish RSS block code. (21773)
Move camelCaseDash to the package where it is consumed. (21736)
Improve URLPopover code from review comments. (21621)

Documentation

Remove duplicate sentence in glossary documentation. (21565)
Update wp-env docs to reflect current functionality of package. (21809)
Extract Block Transforms into its own handbook page. (21734)
Update the index of Block 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. to reflect current contents. (21726)
Clarify attribute type documentation. (21694)
Add location for components style.css. (21654)
Fix the JSDoc return type for getEntityRecords. (21630)
Update triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. links to new document. (21629)
Update Getting Started instructions for remote server. (21625)
Update the “patterns” to reflect “user interface” instead. (21562)
Create document for contributing with triage. (21350)
Update triage.md to add more clarity and relevant links. (21802)

Project Management

Update bug report template to help identify the editor version. (21564)

Various

End-to-end tests:
- Add test for template part block creation and insertion. (21849)
- Add test that template part block customizations are loaded from slug and theme attributes. (21852)
- Fix tests by removing unnecessary assertions and properly install dependencies in @wordpress/api-fetch. (21780)
- Add end-to-end test for pinned 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. items. (21652)
- Add test which verifies reusable block after refresh. (20605)
Update cleanForSlug() to remove additional non-word characters. (21007)
@wordpress/scripts:
- Support debugging with test-unit-js. (21631, 21861)
- Install Chromium on demand together with test-e2e script. (20215)
@wordpress/create-block block scaffold tool:
- Make it easier to provide most popular CLICLI Command Line Interface. Terminal (Bash) in Mac, Command Prompt in Windows, or WP-CLI for WordPress. options. (21751)
- Split 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/. source files into parts for ESNext template. (21750)
@wordpress/env development environment:
- Expose port 3306 of MySQLMySQL MySQL is a relational database management system. A database is a structured collection of data where content, configuration and other options are stored. https://www.mysql.com/. container. (21545)
@wordpress/eslint-plugin:
- Add the recommended Prettier config to enforce WP coding styles. (21602)
- Fix no-unused-vars-before-return JSX identifier reference. (21358)
Navigation block:
- Revert changes to data fetching mechanics. (21721)
Bundle the block autocompleter in the block-editor package. (21534)
Storybook:
- Add FormToggle component. (18085)
Simplify Reusable Block description. (21470)
Build tooling:
- Install Composer dependencies as pre-lint step. (21537)
- Configure Webpack to watch only build files. (21489)
- Exit with non-zero status on docgen failed parse. (21690)

Performance Benchmark

The following benchmark compares performance for a particularly sizeable post (~36000 words, ~1000 blocks) over the last releases. Such a large post isn’t representative of the average editing experience but is adequate for spotting variations in performance.

Version	Loading Time	KeyPress event (typing)
Gutenberg 8.0	9.8s	31.4ms
Gutenberg 7.9	12.0s	36.0ms
WordPress 5.4	9.2s	29.4ms

#core-editor, #editor, #gutenberg, #gutenberg-new

Paal Joachim Romdahl 11:58 am on April 28, 2020
Tags: agenda ( 459 ), core-editor, core-editor-agenda ( 14 ), gutenberg ( 182 )

Editor Chat Agenda: 29th April, 2020

Facilitator and notetaker: @jorgefilipecosta

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for 2020-04-29 14:00 UTC.

5.4.1 is scheduled to be released Wednesday 29th.
Gutenberg 8.0.0
Monthly Plan & Weekly Priorities
Task Coordination
Open Floor

If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.

If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

#agenda, #core-editor, #editor-chat

#agenda, #core-editor, #core-editor-agenda, #gutenberg

annezazu 3:42 pm on April 22, 2020
Tags: core-editor, core-editor-summary ( 12 ), editor ( 147 ), gutenberg ( 182 ), meeting notes ( 81 )

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

Looked into an issue on Showing Existing Scheduled Posts in Calendar / Datepicker and wrote up a draft of plan. More eyes on the plan would be welcome!

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.

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Paal Joachim Romdahl 11:03 am on April 21, 2020
Tags: agenda ( 459 ), core-editor, core-editor-agenda ( 14 ), gutenberg ( 182 )

Editor Chat Agenda: 22nd April, 2020

Facilitator: @paaljoachim. Notetaker: @annezazu.

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for 2020-04-22 14:00 UTC.

The plan is to ship a 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). of 5.4.1 this week and a 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. next week.
Monthly Plan & Weekly Priorities
Task Coordination
Open Floor

If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.

If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.

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Ajit Bohra 7:28 pm on April 20, 2020
Tags: core-editor, core-editor-summary ( 12 ), editor ( 147 ), gutenberg ( 182 ), meeting notes ( 81 )

Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 15 April 2020

This post summarizes the latest weekly Editor meeting, 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 UTC.

WordPress 5.4 Adderley was released and Issue/PR’s for WordPress 5,4,1 are being kept track of using “Backport to WP Core” label.

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/ 7.9.0

Gutenberg 7.9.0 was released which introduces 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. design tools, new block patterns, lighter block. Check out 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. note for more details.

Priorities

The priorities are still the same though and available here

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.

@youknowriad

Working on the new inserter UIUI User interface, hopefully, it will land in the next 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
PR reviews Cover Alignment, Block 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. and more
Triaged and closed issues
Worked on various fixes for 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 &button block
Continue work on the inserter UI

@zebulan

Working on a Table of Contents block using dynamic rendering.
Stuck on trying to get the anchor attribute from Heading blocks in the post, since the anchor attribute is added by a `supports` flag. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/21234
Finished some PRs for fixing bugs and improving the implementation of Reusable Blocks:
– https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/21427
– https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/21181
Working on a PR to add color controls to the List block, stuck on style conflicts. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/21387

@sageshilling

Updating gallery to use blocks https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/11436#issuecomment-485347444

@itsjonq

Continue work on the Cover block https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/21492
- Wrapping up content alignment
- Adding padding controls

@michael-arestad

Progress on end to end full sitesite (versus network, blog) editing prototype
Working on multi-entity saving iterations
Working on navigating pages within the editor
Will be working on the home page indicator for templates
Proposed iterations on inserting existing or new template areas (partials) – [issues: 1 2]

@brentswisher

Continue to work on adding storybook stories and the story shot-addon.
Work on a PR to remove the story shot integration, which should speed up and simplify the story creation process, as well as 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 js unit-tests in Travis more stable

@karmatosed

Focus on navigation for this week, Both in nav-menus.php and iterations to the block

@andraganescu

Worked on various issues around the navigation menus replacement experiment

@aduth

Progress on a new “Block Context” API
There have also been some interesting side-effects of this work, including an experimental (backward-compatible) revision to the PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 render_callback function signature to receive the full block object, not just the attributes.
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/21467

@desaiuditd

Trying to move 2 PRs ahead which were stale for quite some time.
- https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/17413 This could potentially fix some related bugs around embeds
- Trying to achieve new workflow suggestions https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/17311 Have made little progress.
- Waiting for feedback on this one introduces new ReactReact React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to reason about, construct, and maintain stateless and stateful user interfaces. https://reactjs.org/. hook useFilters for primitive JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. types

Open Floor

@check2020de

Fixing height hardcoding for spacer block https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49862#comment:3

it is not good that there is a hardcoded 20px value on the spacer
however, the reason is that we need a min-height to make that block selectable by tapping and for better 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) in general
however, it may be that the incoming block padding/margin will also solve this problem
needs further discussion & decision to better handle the spacer on desktop & mobile

@mboynes

How does one petition to get 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/ issue reopened? asking in the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. doesn’t appear to do the trick

Looking if/when we can get to it:

On the topic of closing issues, as a relative outsider to the project, decisions to close issues feel somewhat unilateral to me. I would like to propose a new process where closing issues requires two people (except in obvious cases, like closing as a duplicate). taking a page from the stack overflow book, the first person could add a “close-vote” label, and someone else, in reviewing “close-vote” issues could then review and close it.

We have some guidelines already about issues triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. here https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/contributors/repository-management/

It’s totally fine to close and reopen issues.

@joostdevalk

Pinning behavior for plugins has changed

Regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5./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. in plugin pinning .

@marekhrabe

Looking for a designer to confirm or update the approach on Media & Text resizing we came up a year ago and it got stale.

More info https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/14483

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Andrés 5:05 pm on April 15, 2020
Tags: core-editor, editor ( 147 ), gutenberg ( 182 ), gutenberg-new ( 67 )

What’s new in Gutenberg (15 April)

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. Design Tools

This 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. features a few additions to the design tools for the blocks, including height unit control for the Cover block, line-height control for the Paragraph and Heading blocks, and background gradient support for Group, Columns, and Media & Text blocks.

Patterns

Work on patterns has continued and 7.9 comes with three new ones:

Block markup

The work to lighten the DOM in the editor and 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 as close as possible to the front-end has been advancing as well.

The 7.9 version also comes with a simplified and more semantic button block, although the pre-existing classes have been left untouched to minimize breakage.

Before this release:

<div class="wp-block-button">
  <a class="wp-block-button__link">Text</a>
</div>

After:

<a class="wp-block-button wp-block-button__link">Text</a>

We try hard to avoid block markup changes and we reckon that the button block changes may require some themes to adapt some of their style selectors. We hope that the improved markup will serve us better going forward.