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Francesca Marano 10:13 am on December 4, 2019
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Dev Chat Agenda for December 4, 2019

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: Wednesday, December 4, 2019, at 09:00 PM UTC.

Announcements

Upcoming Releases

Highlighted Blog Posts

Blog Posts Needing Review/Feedback/Help

Components Check-in

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. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Making WordPress Slack.

#agenda, #core, #devchat

Francesca Marano 11:52 am on November 27, 2019
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Dev Chat Agenda for November 27, 2019

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: Wednesday, November 27, 2019, at 09:00 PM UTC.

Agenda

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. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Making WordPress Slack.

#agenda, #core, #devchat

Anthony Burchell 4:07 pm on November 21, 2019
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Media Meeting Recap – November 14, 2019

The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on Thursday, November 14, 2019. Weekly media meetings are held every Thursday at 14:00 UTC. A full transcript can be found here in the #core-media room in the Make WordPress Slack.

Attendees: @sergeybiryukov , @pbiron, @spacedmonkey, @afercia, @dinhtungdu, @azaozz

Post 5.3 Triage

There were a few issues that came to light after folks updated to the 5.3 release.

Issues discussed:

  • #48632 : Cannot upload images directly from blogpost – Meeting participants attempted to replicate but were unable. Related issues were #48620 and #48604 in which one of the issues were due to a plugin.

That’s all that was reported as of meeting time last week! Thank you to everyone that contributed to WordPress 5.3! It really is a great update.

Meeting Scheduling Discussion

As you may have noticed, the time for the meeting was adjusted for Daylight Savings Time and moved later by one hour. There was some discussion in the meeting around adding a second meeting to the week allowing folks from both sides of the planet to participate. If you are in the AMEA region, please leave your thoughts on when the day and time of the week that works best. This topic will be revisited in the next meeting on Thursday, November 21, at 14:00 UTC

It was also mentioned that in this new scheduling model, it would be desired to move the currently scheduled meeting later one hour. This is of course only if there is another AMEA friendly meeting scheduled.

New Issues Triage

The meeting transitioned to a bug scrub after discussion about scheduling.

  • #48562 : Audio keeps playing on closing of media/attachment details popup in WP Admin – This was reproducible via the Media Library page in grid view. This issue has been around since 5.2 also so this is not a regression. Work is happening in the ticket to fix it up. The remainder of the meeting was filled with bunnies and discussion around a fix for the issue.

Feedback

If you have any feedback on the above, please feel free to leave a comment, join in #core-media for a chat, or attend the next meeting on November 21, 2019 at 14:00UTC!

#core, #core-accessibility, #core-media, #media, #summary

David Baumwald 6:22 pm on November 20, 2019
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Dev Chat Agenda for November 20, 2019

Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting happening later today: Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 09:00 PM UTC.

Agenda

  • Announcements
    • Highlighted posts
  • Upcoming releases
  • Calls from 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. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Making WordPress Slack.

#agenda, #core, #devchat

Anthony Burchell 4:54 pm on November 11, 2019
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Media Meeting Recap – November 7, 2019

The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on Thursday, November 7, 2019. Weekly media meetings are held every Thursday at 14:00 UTC. A full transcript can be found here in the #core-media room in the Make WordPress Slack.

Attendees: @joemcgill , @mikeschroder, @afercia, @desrosj, @dinhtungdu, @karmatosed, @greglone, @azaozz

Meeting Time Discussion

It’s that time of year again (for some of us!) Fall Daylight Savings Time historically makes the meeting time move forward one hour. The next meeting will take place Thursday, November 14, at 14:00 UTC.

There was discussion in a group message consisting of meeting facilitators around potentially doing a rotation of one week at a convenient time for each side of the planet. The Hosting-Community room does this and it seems to work very well. This would allow for participation from groups outside of the normal hour that we hold the meeting while also allowing folks that have been stretching outside their normal work hours to catch the meeting async. Please let us know in the comments what you think about this! There was mention of potentially doing a few months on one schedule and a rotation after. Another suggestion was around doing many meetings instead of rotating meetings. This would entail two designated meeting times a week in an effort to encourage new participants. This topic will be discussed in the next Media Meeting. Any additional ideas would be appreciated.

WordPress 5.3 Tasks

There were three tickets discussed in the meeting.

  1. #48518 Inconsistent behavior when a registered image size is larger than the big image threshold – Testing is being done around this issue and should be ready for 5.3.
  2. #48451 Regression: wp_update_attachment_metadata filter now fires very often and without complete metadata – The Follow Up Post around this outlines a few areas to focus on with the recent uploads changes. Some discussion took place around whether or not a new hook would help folks adjust to the changes. This is still to be determined.
  3. #48522 Attachment size not generated when large images uploaded – A few more details about this issue can be found at this Slack Link. Testing would be appreciated on this ticket.

Feedback

If you have any feedback on the above, please feel free to leave a comment, join in #core-media for a chat, or attend the next meeting on November 14, 2019 at 14:00UTC!

#core, #core-accessibility, #core-media, #media, #summary

David Baumwald 9:04 pm on October 23, 2019
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Dev Chat: 10/23/2019

The facilitator for this week’s chat was @audrasjb.

Announcements

WordPress version 5.3-RC2 was released on Tuesday. Everyone please help by testing out the RC.

The latest Dev Note published for 5.3 discuses “Noteworthy Admin CSS Changes in WordPress 5.3”.

Also, the official Field Guide for 5.3 was published!

@audrasjb called attention to the wonderful documentation work this cycle by @justinahinon and @jeffpaul. Thank you to both for their extraordinary efforts!

5.3 Updates

@azaozz Pointed out that there are only two tickets needing work after RC2, excluding the About Page. Follow the ticket progress in Trac here.

@ianbelanger informed the group that there are currently 0 tickets in the Bundled Themes component for Twenty Twenty. However, he added that an RC3 release would be helpful.

@audrasjb brought up ticket #48396 regarding @afercia‘s request to revert two lines of CSS to remove an unwanted changes on disabled buttons. @azaozz confirmed the revert to be a minor one and suggested that it move forward based on testing.

A pre-RC3 Bug Scrub in the #core channel was tentatively scheduled for Monday October 28, 2019 15:00 UTC. If there are no new tickets or regressions reported prior, the scrub will not take place.

@sergeybiryukov asked about branching for 5.3 this week. @peterwilsoncc suggested certainly branching before WordCamp US Contributor Day, as to allow for good-first-tickets to be committed for new contributors. @desrosj added that branching could be done at any time now that the dust has settled from RC2, but deferred to @azaozz‘s judgement as Core Tech Lead for 5.3. @azaozz suggested trying to resolve a couple of remaining issues in 5.3 prior to branching in the next few days, and a consensus was reached around this idea.

These notes were taking by @davidbaumwald and proofread by @audrasjb

#5-3, #dev-chat, #summary

Mary Baum 4:43 pm on October 21, 2019
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Dev Chat Summary, October 16, 2019

@francina led off a well-attended dev chat – 29 active participants! – with the standard introduction and remarked that we were in Week Nine of the release cycle.

Announcements and Highlighted Posts

She issued a call for announcements and highlighted posts, then announced that WordPress 5.3 Release Candidate 1 had landed the day before, on October 16.

@azaozz and @sergey were our packagers; @francina and @desrosj led the process.

Dev Notes

@johnbillion called the group’s attention to a crop of new dev notes as a way to keep up with changes in 5.3 for devs; @justinahinon linked to the 5.3-specific ones here.

@jeffpaul added that pending one more dev note, the Field Guide will publish shortly.

Accessibility testing in the 5.3 Admin

@francina directed the group to this report from @audrasjb on accessibility testing of the CSS changes coming to 5.3 against the 20 most popular plugins on the WordPress.org repository.

@francina thanked @jeffpaul for the Field Guide and @ipstenu for plugin support.

Upcoming Releases

5.3

@francina‘s call for updates prompted mostly murmurings that everything’s progressing on schedule. @azaozz pointed out there were only a couple of new tickets after RC1, and @desrosj had three to call out for reviews from other committers: #48022, #48312, #47699.

(Remember that after RC1, every commit needs signoff from two committers, not one, until launch.)

Discussion of a related ticket, #48331, followed.

Calls from Component Maintainers

@francina opened the calls from component maintainers.

@jeffpaul: Not a component maintainer update, but worth noting that during the RC1 packaging process (I believe) we confirmed that trunk would be opened back up after RC2.  That may be worth confirming here and noting in the devchat summary post which you’re reading now)

@sergey and your faithful but tardy reporter confirmed that we’ll start milestoning for 5.4 at that point, and @desrosj pointed the group to the RC1 discussion here.

The final announcement from @davidbaumwald was this:

@committers Committing to Core is now open again.  Reminder, now that we’re in RC, the dev-feedback and dev-reviewed workflow is required prior to committing, where each commit must get double-signoff.

@desrosj pointed out that 5.4 already has 94 tickets. He encouraged the group and observers (and you, dear reader!) to address these 94 tickets first or punt them if they’re unrealistic.

Open Floor

@francina had two items.

RC2

RC2 is tomorrow, October 22. @francina asked the group for a team and a timeline; discussion followed about some last-minute changes that we won’t be making tomorrow.

Workflow for the About Page

@francina also opened the floor to a discussion about whether or not the About Page can get locked down 24 hours before a release. For the most part, the group agreed that much of the page can, but there will always be a few last-minute fixes — especially for majors.

See you tomorrow for the launch of RC2!

#core, #devchat, #summaries

David Baumwald 9:50 pm on October 9, 2019
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Dev Chat: 10/9/2019

@davidbaumwald served as facilitator and note taker for this week’s chat held in the #core Slack channel. To view the chat from the beginning, click on this Slack Archive.

Announcements

WordPress version 5.3 Beta 3 was released on Tuesday. Congratulations to everyone involved in inching 5.3 closer to the finish line.

5.3 Updates

With 5.3 Beta 3 now release, focus turns to Release Candidate 1(RC1) is next on the schedule just a few days from now. A “soft string freeze” is now in effect.

@francina called for volunteers for next week’s RC1 release session. Both Mission Control(MC) and a Core Committer will be required. @azaozz and @sergeybiryukov raised their hands.

@karmatosed provided a quick update on 5.3’s About page, saying that everything is on track and copy is being finalized.

@jeffpaul inquired about the progress on compilation of Dev Notes for 5.3. @justinahinon pointed to a Google Sheet that he’s using to organize them and coordinate volunteer authors.

This discussion led to a call for more volunteers and ticket owners to draft Dev Notes. @desrosj mentioned that he’s “… started a page for the handbook collecting the learnings from the last three releases for this.”

@ianbelanger brought a Twenty Twenty update to the group. A PR has been opened to address WPCS violations in the Beta Twenty Twenty patch, and a call for testing was announced. @karmatosed added that testing on mobile is a great help to the team.

Open Floor

@azaozz mentioned that there are, as of writing, only 37 open tickets in the 5.3 milestone, and everything should be closed out as RC1 is released. This was a great reminder of the tremendous work done by Core Contributors during the course of the 5.3 cycle, as over 350 tickets were initially open when the cycle was kicked off!

These notes were drafted by @davidbaumwald and proofread by @justinahinon.

#5-3, #dev-chat, #summary

Anthony Burchell 2:37 pm on September 19, 2019
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Media Meeting Recap – September 19, 2019

The following is a summary of the weekly media component meeting that occurred on Thursday, September 19, 2019. Weekly media meetings are held every Thursday at 13:00 UTC. A full transcript can be found here in the #core-media room in the Make WordPress Slack.

Attendees: @anevins, @joemcgill , @FahimMurshed, @mikeschroder, @antpb, @afercia

Media Focus update: @mikeschroder has been hard at work on a 5.3 intro post. In it will be a focus on calling for testing.  Coming soon!

Add width and height attributes to <img> elements – https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/6652
Discussion is taking place in this Slack thread. Maintainers in attendance all agreed that this would be great to be considered a bug and a potential impactful improvement to the editor experience. @joemcgill said, “Realistically, I think a first step is just adding a proof of concept that modifies the save attribute of the image block so the h/w attributes are always saved and then see what breaks.”

5.3 Ticket Triage

#47120 – Media modals: Upload errors and field information are not associated with their control : @antpb has taken ownership of the ticket and will investigate how we would best inject the recommended code into the various buttons/views.

#47137 – Insufficient form semantics : This issue was split into two issues (the other below) to allow the overall problem to improve in pieces. Ownership for this one is needed. It’s a bit of a tough issue that no one has yet to see an immediate solution.

#48028 – Media Library ‘featured image’ dialogue missing link text that describes ‘opens in new tab’. – @afercia said “I think there’s the need to check how editState is implemented in the post frame and what is intended for. That implementation completely lacks in other frames. I think this is for historical reasons because the post frame was the only frame supposed to be used in the “edit post” context.” and @joemcgill responded “The classic editor used the Post frame in most places, rather than the Select frame. Now that most of Gutenberg is using the Select frame, some odd bits aren’t working the same—just like that other featured image bug you (@antpb) just fixed” @antpb assigned the issue to himself given his recent exposure to the featured image frames. A github issue is needed also to track this change in the Gutenberg plugin @antpb is working on that. More to come!

#47144 – Text inadvertently rendered by assistive technologies – Was mentioned at end of meeting but discussion was not able to be had. This issue is in need of ownership for the 5.3 release.

#47611 – Media views: hide the “file upload button” from assistive technologies – Was mentioned at end of meeting but discussion was not able to be had. This issue is in need of ownership for the 5.3 release.

Bug Scrubs next week!

@mikeschroder and @antpb have offered to lead two bug scrubs in #core-media next week to find ownership for the remaining accessibility issues planned for the 5.3 milestone:

Feedback

If you have any feedback on the above, please feel free to leave a comment, join in #core-media for a chat, or attend the next meeting on September 26, 2019 at 1300UTC!

#core, #core-accessibility, #core-media, #media, #summary

Mary Baum 6:42 pm on September 14, 2019
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Dev chat summary: September 11

Announcements

@Francina asked the group for announcements, and @jbaudras highlighted this Make/Design post:

https://make.wordpress.org/design/2019/09/06/discussion-higher-contrast-form-fields-and-buttons/
There are 3 tickets waiting for final decision in order to land in WP 5.3

Then she added two more:

Make WordPress Core
Introducing Twenty Twenty
The Block Editor will soon celebrate its first birthday in Core and with every update it grows more capable. The promise of the block editor is to give users the freedom to design and structure the… https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/09/05/defining-content-block-areas/

Make WordPress Core
Defining Content–Block Areas
One of the major projects from this year’s focuses is to expand the block editor beyond the content area and into other parts of the site. This included, so far, explorations to bring blocks into o…
Sep 5th

Media component maintainer Anthony Burchell told the group he’s been sharing that link around and getting great feedback.
@francina praised the video in the post. She added, “Personally I’m looking forward to seeing all the possibilities that blocks are giving us!”
After @afercia mentioned some accessibility feedback, @francina moved the discussion forward, inviting everyone (you too, dear reader!) to leave comments on the relevant posts.

Upcoming releases: 5.3

Bugscrubs: @davidb opened with this news: we still had 314 tickets milestoned for 5.3.

The discussion that followed surfaced a general preference to focus on enhancements and features between now and Beta 1, when features freeze, and on bug fixes between Beta 1 and release.

As of devchat, 120 features and enhancements are milestoned for 5.3 on Trac.

@davidb and the focus leads will do a bit of promoting to get more folks to come to bugscrubs.
(Ed. note: Beta 1 should land September 23; final release is slated for November 12.

Default theme focus lead @ianbelanger reported in on the next default theme, Twenty Twenty. has a weekly meeting, on Mondays at 19:00 UTC, and has opened its Github repo to contributors.

Marketing has nominated @miker as its focus lead for the release. It’s started meeting on Fridays at 16:00 in the Marketing channel, to work on copy for the About page. @marybaum and @miker asked for input from maintainers on enhancements they think are important.

In Docs, we have one dev note published and two more under review. Lead @justinahinon is going to all the component meetings, to let their teams know the Docs team is around to help with their notes.

Media: @mikeschroder is the 5.3 focus lead.

Next bugscrub is Thursday at 05:00 UTC. Check the rest of the schedule at https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/08/27/bug-scrub-schedule-for-5-3/

Maintainers

@antpb reported in on Media, which is also taking the lead on APAC-friendly meeting times. As he said:

“This devchat does not align with normal hours for him, so I will help with updates here. Discussion about the scope of the 5.3 Media will take place tomorrow at 13:00 UTC (agenda to come soon in the #core-media room). I anticipate the scope to largely focus on a11y and image handling improvements. I know of a few on my plate currently that will also fit in line with the release focus of UI improvements.”

@clorith and @jeffpaul will work to get scrubs posted on WordPress 5.3 Development Cycle – Make WordPress Core.

@pierregordon volunteered to become a maintainer for the External Libraries component.

And there was more discussion on getting people to come to bugscrubs.

21:00

As we hit the hour, folks who needed to do other things (like sleep, eat or work) signed off. But the chat was still lively enough that several people stayed on tolerant more about exactly what a component maintainer’s role includes.

@jbaudras referred to this post:

These maintainers are vital to keeping WordPress development running as smoothly as possible. They triage new tickets, look after existing ones, spearhead or mentor tasks, pitch new ideas, curate roadmaps, and provide feedback to other contributors. Longtime maintainers with a deep understanding of particular areas of core are always seeking to mentor others to impart their knowledge.

From https://make.wordpress.org/core/components/ (edited)

Devchat ended at ten minutes past the hour.

#5-3, #core, #devchat, #twenty-twenty