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Joe McGill 10:19 pm on February 14, 2019
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Dev Chat Summary: February 13

This post summarizes the weekly dev chat meeting from February 13th (agenda, Slack archive).

5.1 updates

5.1 is currently on target for the Feb 21 release date.

RC1 went out last week. Two remaining bugs have been fixed (remaining open tickets can be tracked here). Right now, all that is left is the About page, which needs some design work and some minor bug fixes. @pento expects to release a small RC2 either late this week, or early next week.

The WordPress 5.1 Field guide is out, thanks to the hard work of @desrosj, @jeffpaul, and the many contributors who wrote individual dev notes for this release.

Since the meeting adjourned, 5.1 has been branched, and Trunk is open for 5.2–alpha enhancements.

5.2 and 5.1.x Logistics

Release target and cadence

Based on the desire to update the PHP requirements in April, @pento proposed targeting late April for a 5.2 release. That leaves about a month for alpha, a month for beta, and two weeks for RC.

@youknowraid proposed shortening the release cycles for WordPress to shorter, predictable cycles that are time-based instead of feature based. After some discussion, @chanthaboune suggested an official proposal be drafted on https://make.wordpress.org/core, and @desrosj volunteered to help draft the post.

Potential features for 5.2

While there are no firm commitments, a few ideas for 5.2 features include:

  • Gutenberg performance and UX improvements
  • Core widgets converted to blocks
  • PHP Fatal Recovery (WSOD)
  • Site Health Check

5.1.X Releases

Barring any major regressions in 5.1, the target for a 5.1.1 release will be 2 weeks after 5.1. With 5.2 targeted for April, 5.1.x releases will be limited to 5.1 regressions and important bug fixes that would be good to get out earlier, and exclude additional features or enhancements.

Updates from focus leads and component maintainers

An initial implementation of a CODEOWNERS file in Gutenberg was merged, which is kind of a joint JavaScript and Gutenberg update.

From the Gutenberg desk: there is a lot from last week’s meeting, but there is a call for reviewers that’s worth taking a look at.

From Media: the team did a ticket triage and left excellent notes with calls for testing and patches.

From the JavaScript desk: There’s a request for feedback from @youknowriad on how to tackle selecting data over multiple stores.

General announcements and open floor

The Navigation block is currently being discussed and there are mockups in GitHub that would benefit from people’s feedback.

@afercia proposed an audit of the project’s components and maintainers soon to ensure the project is properly organized to maintain all parts of the codebase and increase participation where necessary.

Additionally, @afercia recommended that all components and teams use the correct headings level when authoring a post, and please refrain from using emojis or other extraneous content within the headings. This relates to an ongoing effort to improve the headings hierarchy across the .org network.

Finally, @chanthaboune published a post titled, Strengths and Challenges: Follow Up, earlier this week. Everyone should read it, as it applies to all teams. Additionally, she is working on the first “Scrum of Scrums/Weekly Digest/Wayfinding” post, which she expects to publish later this week.

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Peter Wilson 2:24 am on January 30, 2019
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Dev Chat Agenda: January 30

Below is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 21:00 UTC:

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

This meeting is held in the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack.

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Jonathan Desrosiers 4:42 pm on January 23, 2019
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Dev Chat Agenda: January 23rd

Below is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 21:00 UTC:

  • 5.1 updates:
  • Updates from focus leads and component maintainers.
  • Open floor.

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

This meeting is held in the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack.

#5-1, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Gary Pendergast 10:13 am on January 16, 2019
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Dev Chat Agenda: January 16th

Do you like devchat? I like devchat. This is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on Wednesday, January 16 2019 at 2100 UTC:

If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below. Either way, we look forward to seeing you at the devchat this week!

This meeting is held in the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack.

#5-1, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Jonathan Desrosiers 8:33 pm on January 14, 2019
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Follow Up on Recent Trac Bulk Edit

On January 4, there was a bulk ticket edit in Trac that affected approximately 2,300 tickets spanning all components that had not been modified in at least 2 years. The bulk action performed was setting the ticket status to closed with a resolution of wontfix.

A full list of the tickets closed can be viewed using this Trac query.

Follow Up Discussion

During last week’s devchat, there was a productive discussion about what happened and how to move forward from there. Listed below are some of the main takeaways:

  • Context
    • The bulk edit was not related to the recent Short Term Trac Milestone Ticket Triage Proposal.
    • A goal of the new Triage Team will be to establish better processes for performing updates to tickets, including bulk updates if any are warranted.
    • Bulk actions spanning multiple components should be communicated ahead of time.
    • Each component having hundreds of open tickets makes it difficult for new contributors to see where they can help most.
    • Many tickets take a lot of institutional knowledge to identify the best paths forward.
  • Hurdles
    • Component maintainers and Trac gardeners need clear expectations for how to treat those closed tickets. Triaging tickets that are closed is hard.
    • The wontfix keyword may not have been appropriate here. “Won’t fix” sounds like an active decision based on the lack of merit for a ticket. This may not be the case for most of the tickets closed.
    • Perhaps older tickets are getting lost in the reports currently offered on Trac.
  • Suggested Solutions
    • wontfix needs to be re-evaluated. maybelater is a resolution that fits this scenario better.
    • Define or agree on what constitutes “no activity”
    • A “stale” designation may help. Stale notices could remain open but be hidden from standard reports.

Proposed Path Forward

After the conversation in devchat, it was decided that this post would be a better place to continue discussion and reach a final conclusion.

Below is the process moving forward that is being proposed after taking into account all of the feedback received so far:

  1. All tickets closed in the bulk edit due to inactivity will have their resolution changed from wontfix to maybelater.
  2. Component maintainers are free to reopen tickets closed as a result of this bulk action, as long as they have a plan to triage the list within a reasonable amount of time.
  3. Just like component maintainers are free to reopen the tickets closed, they are also free to leave them closed. But, the closed tickets should be scrubbed to make sure that no important tickets were closed accidentally.

Those in the component maintainer role would discuss these options in their component meetings or Slack rooms and reach a decision of what path works best for them.

The actions chosen for each component should be communicated in the component’s weekly meeting summary and in the comments below. The plan should also be clearly communicated in the form of a comment in Trac if the tickets are reopened.

If a component wants to reopen their tickets but needs help scrubbing the list, include that in your comment below and a plan can be created for going through the list. The three components without active maintainers (Filesystem API, Pings/Trackbacks, Rewrite Rules) will have the closed tickets scrubbed by myself (@desrosj) and other members of the Triage Team (once it is fully formed) to ensure nothing important was closed.

The correct way to reopen tickets for the components that wish to do so will be communicated once it is determined. The best way forward will depend on the feedback on this post and from component maintainers. But, this could be one of the following:

  • Bulk edit to reopen component by component.
  • Trac database query to reopen, remove resolution, comment.

More Details

Below is a summary of the number of closed tickets grouped by component:

  • Administration: 118
  • Autosave: 7
  • Bootstrap/Load: 18
  • Build/Test Tools: 27
  • Bundled Theme: 10
  • Cache API: 16
  • Canonical: 30
  • Charset: 6
  • Comments: 63
  • Cron API: 11
  • Customize: 49
  • Database: 34
  • Date/Time: 11
  • Editor: 76
  • Embeds: 12
  • Emoji: 2
  • Export: 24
  • External Libraries: 13
  • Feeds: 17
  • Filesystem API: 24
  • Formatting: 100
  • Gallery: 16
  • General: 172
  • HTTP API: 17
  • Help/About: 6
  • I18N: 28
  • Import: 36
  • Login and Registration: 54
  • Mail: 18
  • Media: 163
  • Menus: 77
  • Networks and Sites: 40
  • Options, Meta APIs: 40
  • Permalinks: 53
  • Pings/Trackbacks: 15
  • Plugins: 53
  • Post Formats: 4
  • Post Thumbnails: 4
  • Posts, Post Types: 151
  • Query: 69
  • Quick/Bulk Edit: 24
  • REST API: 5
  • Revisions: 13
  • Rewrite Rules: 37
  • Role/Capability: 17
  • Script Loader: 25
  • Security: 14
  • Shortcodes: 18
  • Taxonomy: 73
  • Text Changes: 13
  • Themes: 73
  • TineMCE: 56
  • Toolbar: 12
  • Upgrade/Install: 80
  • Upload: 25
  • Users: 102
  • Widgets: 59
  • WordPress.org Site: 3
  • XML-RPC: 27

Feedback

Do you have more to add to the discussion? Concerns with the proposed plan above? Please share them below!

#core, #trac

Gary Pendergast 6:04 am on December 13, 2018
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Dev Chat Summary: December 12th

Dev Chat Scheduling

As many folks will be away over the Christmas/New Year period, the next few meetings will be as follows:

  • December 19: Normal meeting.
  • December 26: Normal meeting will not be happening. There are likely to be core folks around to answer questions for an open floor session.
  • January 2: Normal meeting.

5.0.2 Schedule and Scope

Please note that WordPress 5.0.1 has just been released, so any previous mentions of scope or schedule for WordPress 5.0.1 should now be read as applying to WordPress 5.0.2.

WordPress 5.0.2 is intended to be released two weeks after WordPress 5.0, which would make the release date December 20. To give a little more space before the Christmas/New Year holiday period, I’ve proposed that it be released December 19.

Milestone Dates

  • Release Candidate 1: December 14, 2018
  • Release Candidate 2 (if needed): December 17, 2018.
  • General Release: December 19, 2018.

The following items are in scope for the 5.0.2 release:

  • Gutenberg 4.7 was released today, the fixes in this plugin release will also be in WordPress 5.0.2.
  • Twenty Nineteen bugs and visual issues.
  • There are a few PHP 7.3 compatibility fixes to be made.

Any other tickets currently milestoned for 5.0.2 will be considered on a case-by-case basis, priority will be given to tickets with patches, testing, screenshots, and any other relevant information to show that they’re ready to land immediately.

5.1 Schedule and Scope

As there are already over 200 tickets fixed in WordPress 5.1, I’d like to propose that WordPress 5.1 has a relatively short release cycle.

Milestone Dates

  • Beta 1: January 10, 2019
  • Release Candidate 1: February 7, 2019
  • General Release: February 21, 2019

A key point from the WordPress 5.0 cycle was that it demonstrated the value of having a hard feature freeze at beta 1, as well as string freezes and strict bug fixing policies during the release candidate phase. With that in mind, I’d like to propose that we retain these policies for the WordPress 5.1 cycle.

The tickets already fixed in WordPress 5.1 need to be reviewed, to ensure they’re all stable for release in this cycle.

Apart from that, the PHP upgrade warnings and the White Screen of Death protection from the Site Health Check project are currently the only uncommitted features scheduled for WordPress 5.1. The PHP upgrade warnings are currently soft warnings, ahead of the minimum PHP version bump proposed for April 2019.

@matt will be continuing his role as release lead into WordPress 5.1. Any other feature proposals will need to be approved by him.

Please leave feedback on this post, so the scope and schedule can be confirmed in the next day or two.

Focus and Component Updates

REST API

The REST API group will be re-opening discussion around authentication solutions. They’ll be posting further information about this project on make/core.

Core JS

The Core JS group didn’t meet this week, due to many folks travelling home from WCUS. They’ll be resuming normal meetings next week.

Core Themes

The current themes focus is on triaging Twenty Nineteen issues for 5.0.2, as well as preparing to move activity from GitHub into Trac. This move will likely happen immediately after 5.0.2.

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Josepha 3:02 pm on December 5, 2018
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Dev Chat Agenda: December 5th (5.0 Week 10)

This is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on December 5th, 2018 at 21:00 UTC:

  • 5.0 Planning and Updates
  • Updates from focus leads and component maintainers
  • General announcements

If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below. Either way, we look forward to seeing you at the devchat this week!

This meeting is held in the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack.

#5-0, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Josepha 10:56 pm on November 27, 2018
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Dev Chat Agenda: November 28th (5.0 Week 9)

This is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on November 28th, 2018 at 21:00 UTC:

  • 5.0 Planning and Updates
    • A discussion about getting #11973 in 5.0 has been requested. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/11973
  • Updates from focus leads and component maintainers
  • General announcements

If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below. Either way, we look forward to seeing you at the devchat this week!

This meeting is held in the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack.

#5-0, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

Tammie Lister 10:25 pm on November 21, 2018
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Dev Chat Summary: November 21st (5.0 Week 8)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 21st (Slack archive).

5.0 Planning and Updates

  • Gutenberg 4.4 and WordPress 5.0-beta5 shipped, including updates to the block editor, PHP 7.3 support, and Twenty Nineteen.
  • The 5.0 / Gutenberg team continued their daily updates to Make/Core, noting PRs and issues remaining, as well as recent and upcoming plugin releases (see 11/16, 11/19, 11/20).
  • There are a few pending tasks in Trac needing attention, which meant release candidate didn’t happen yet. On the Gutenberg side, milestones are clear after 4.5.1 was released early in the day. Anyone who can commit or review, it would be great to get your attention on those remaining Trac tickets as a priority. Find out more in the post just released today.
  • The documentation reorganisation is merged and new documentation is being added. There are a couple of excellent outlines available for users and site maintainers as well as designers and developers.

Focus and Component Updates

  • The PHP team shared last week’s meeting recap with notes on Servehappy, adding support for PHP version requirements to themes, and beginnings of coordination with the Theme Review team.
  • The JavaScript team shared this week’s meeting recap with notes on correcting package global names and npm packages publishing workflow.
  • The Privacy team met earlier today, so only their agenda is currently available that covers 5.0 testing/patches, 3rd party code on wp.org footers, mobile app permissions and tracking, Google Fonts in Gutenberg, and Google reCAPTCHA 3.0. A full recap will be posted soon.

Announcements and Open Floor

  • The date of the release candidate and the WordPress 5.0 release was discussed. The primary goal is to finish the RC, then decide upon an appropriate release date.
  • @aaroncampbell asked for volunteers to help onboard people, and guide them to first bugs for non-Gutenberg work at WCUS. Please reach out to him if you’re able to help.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will take place on Wednesday, November 28 21:00 UTC in the #core Slack channel. Please feel free to drop in with any updates or questions. If you have items to discuss but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on the upcoming agenda post so that we can take them into account.

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Josepha 2:56 pm on November 14, 2018
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Dev Chat Agenda: November 14th (5.0 Week 7)

This is the agenda for the weekly devchat meeting on November 14th, 2018 at 21:00 UTC:

  • 5.0 Planning and Updates
  • Updates from focus leads and component maintainers
  • General announcements

If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below. Either way, we look forward to seeing you at the devchat this week!

This meeting is held in the #core channel in the Making WordPress Slack.

#5-0, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat