Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 3 July 2019

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 3 July 2019, 14:00 WEST held in Slack.

The agenda followed can be found here.

Task coordination

Note: If you’re reading this summary outside of the meeting, please drop a comment if you can/want to help with something!

@nerrad

Implemented the first pass at a potential solution for the element interpolation 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. problem https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/16374.

@youknowriad

  • Worked on some performance related PRs. Mostly tried to make the getBlock selector more performant as it’s the bottleneck in terms of typing performance.
  • Reviewed a bunch of PRs. One of the most important is the CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. Panel to edit 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.-based 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. areas PR by @epiqueras.
  • Plans to land the block reordering animation soon.

@aduth

Made a few small pull requests, reviews, focusing mostly on “custom” sources for blocks (reimplementing 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. to start)
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/16402.
Referred that the issue with the publish button https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/16303 has a significant impact and might be easy to review if someone wants to take a look.

@danr

Continues working on table block tasks. Has a couple of PRs ready for review:

Has a PR which changes the way the blocks.registerBlockType 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. works. Would be happy for more testing on it: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/16348

@welcher

Worked on some PRs related to SlotFill with https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/13361 being the highest priority, followed by https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/16384, in his opinion.

@kjellr

Has been posting some work on revised, less-intrusive tips:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/16315.

He is hoping to get PR https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/14961 merged, once we can figure out the mysteriously-failing test.

Did some initial work on the Patterns 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 hopes to get that posted until the end of the day: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/16283

@getdave

Has been working to allow any Block to be registered to handle “Grouping” interactions. Received non-consensual feedback some people think that it is a good idea while others think the opposite.
Additional feedback is welcome:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/16278.

Has been working on Block Previews component along with @joen to allow it to dynamically resize and handle scale a lot better: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/16113.

@nadir

Continues the work on Snap to grid RFC.

@jorgefilipecosta

Answered & debugged some issues and submitted 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. fix PR’s. Reviewed some PR’s, including the blocks in the customizer and the custom parser options. Proposed a simple mechanism for themes to register styles and did updates to the image Link UIUI User interface refactor PR, which was recently merged.

@chrisvanpatten

Has been doing some light PR reviews and issue replies… Is aiming to schedule a Gutendocs bug scrub session next week; if anyone has specific days/times that work and you want to join, feel free to comment! @chrisvanpatten would love to get good attendance.

Agenda: Non-code contributions

@youknowriad introduced the topic by referring that the idea is that we value code contributions (or PRs more precisely) more than other types of contributions: PR reviews, triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors., discussions in issues… The consequence is a growing list of unreviewed PRs and untriaged issues.

@epiqueras proposed some ideas to explore:

  • draft documentation for what is good triage and reviewing, why it’s important, and where new contributors should start.
  • highlight some good live PRs to review for people to take a look at.
  • recognize these types of contributions so that their value is more obvious.

@karmatosed referred that design / technical feedback should be added to the previous list.

@youknowriad a small first step today was that he tried focusing more on “non-code” contributions during the Task Coordination and tried to highlight this work more.

@karmatosed noted that we could expand beyond ‘did you review PRs’ to say ‘did you leave feedback or offer insights’.

@nadir shared that:

being a new contributor, based on my experience in trying to review PR I would say it was really hard for me because sometimes you really need to understand the codebase, things that are agreed upon, the norms and what’s not.

the only PR that I could review are related to things I already solved issues on or had PR related to, but I felt that I wasted a lot of the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team time reviewing basic problems like how to document eslint disable rules and how to write code that matches the core team theme

@karmatosed made an essential point that every single moment investing in someone as awesome to try and contribute isn’t a waste

@mcsf thanked the share made by @nadir and said:

I think that’s a very real issue for anyone coming to the project. I have a suggestion for easing into reviewing other people’s work: recognise that you can still provide helpful feedback even when you’re not an “expert”. This, to me, means that you could define the scope of your review, or your abilities: “I can only speak about this component”, or “about the overall readability”,
Concluding by saying that a newcomer’s eye can reveal a lot of blind spots in PR’s.

@aduth also thanked the share made by @nadir referring that he is inclined to say that we need more documentation for the things @nadir referred. Followed with a set of questions: Is this documentation as it’s organized today very effective? Do you have any thoughts on what might be an effective way for you to become aware of norms and such?

@karmatosed continued the conversation by stating that: Docs are just docs. It’s surfacing and being in the right place counts.

@nadir added that triaging was also an excellent way for him to contribute since he worked on two components when he started (button & snack bar), filtering issues & PR by those components gave him a good ability to review and understand what is happening

@brentswisher joined the conversation and supported the idea of “draft documentation for what is good triage and reviewing”.

@youknowriad proposed a welcome bot that comments PR’s of new contributors. The discussion went on with people sharing insights regarding that idea and how a concrete bot implementation could like.

@karmatosed shared the following actions points as a discussion summary:

  • Recognize and highlight non-code contributions more during weekly meetings
  • Surface the docs better (how?).
  • Improve the docs. (can we create an issue to discuss what needs to be improved and how)
  • Add thoughts to welcome bot and project board: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/projects/24#card-17518302
  • Consider what role of welcome contributor could be.

And ended with a reminder: “We are all human.”

Open Floor

The open floor started with a question by @joyously: How the editor can better support themes? She added:

The old editor has an easy interface to add “Formats” with a simple PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher filter that makes a button in the editor. When can we have that again? Why change the interface to the theme? (new API)

@youknowriad answered by saying:

I think there’s a difference in the paradigm that makes applying “random classNames” to “random HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers.” not a good fit for the block editor. While in TinyMCE we’re adding content as HTML, in the block editor we’re adding content as blocks which means any markup we add should be meaningful for the block.

So the idea is that we have two use-cases here:
– Apply a style variation to the block (known block) (className + stylesheet)
– Apply an inline style variation (inline class name) in RichText. We don’t have an API for that one because it’s less common, but I think you should feel free to open an issue about this “Custom Format” (talking about the RichText Format API ).

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Editor Chat Agenda: June 5th

Note taker: @ajitbohra

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 5 June 2019, 13:00 UTC.

  • Tasks Coordination
  • Open Floor

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/..

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

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Editor Chat Summary: May 29th

AgendaSlack Transcript

Announcements

Gutenberg 5.8 was released today, congratulations to everyone who participated in this release!

The release agenda for WP 5.2.2 is out https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/05/28/5-2-2-release-agenda/.

Regarding the WP 5.2.2 release, from the editor side, we have two PRs to be backported. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22Backport+to+WP+Core%22+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A%225.8+%28Gutenberg%29%22+.

@youknowriad volunteered to 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. the PR’s.

Task Coordination

  • @aduth
    • Toyed with a first GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that 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 workflow for the project, to auto-assign merged pull requests to milestones https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/15826
    • Explored preferences persistence, which initially seemed there could be a simple option to reuse existing features https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/15800.
    • Plans to merge some improvements to make the build faster.
  • @youknowriad wants to work on
    • Exploring grid helpers when resizing images.
    • Exploring more animations (snackbars, moving blocks…).
    • document the release tool.
    • automate npm releases.
  • @nerrad
    • Implemented useSelect hook and it’s powering withSelect.
    • Is working on the useDispatch hook.
  • @gziolo
    • Spent one full working day triaging issues last week
    • https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/05/27/the-block-registration-api-status-update/ – Is still awaiting feedback for the block.json proposal, hopes to finalize it this week.
    • Is helping @joen with improved UXUX User experience for nested blocks.
    • Wants to start on Bring consistency to 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. toolbar for text blocks .
  • @mapk
    • Is working on a few Table block issues.
    • Is looking at word breaks in the Media_Text block.
    • Will look into custom fields checkbox in the Options menu.
    • Will check spacer block clearing floats.
  • @andraganescu
    • continues to work on the media blocks update flow.
  • @kjellr
    • Still helping support the nested block work from @joen
    • Thinking about providing suggested column layouts: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/15663#issuecomment-496568894
    • Narrowing down the icons for the Group block: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/15602
  • @jorgefilipecosta
    • Past week:
      • Worked on the widgets screen endpoints and frontend rendering of blocks in the widget areas, a summary of the work was posted in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/13204#issuecomment-496934219.
      • Worked on other enhancements e.g.: text color in the heading, link UIUI User interface on the images and some editor 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.
    • Next week:
      • Will explore a short term very specific project board to make organizing PR’s and issues easier.
      • Continue the work to solve generic block editor problems affecting the widgets screen and probably external usages of the block editor.
      • Address reviews on the image link UI.
      • Work on some bug fixes and UI enhancements e.g. explore insert by URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org on cover and media text blocks to make them more similar to the other media blocks.
      • Improve the contrast checking to make aware of parent colors (e.g: group block) and solve some bugs.
  • @iseulde
    • Plans to continue with this roadmap: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/13778.
    • Is a bit busy with conferences.

To anyone reading this, it is possible to participate in the task coordination in an async way. Feel free to comment in this post with the tasks that you worked on during the last week and/or what tasks you plan to work on during the next week.

Inline color support

@paaljoachim asked participants in the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. editor chat to discuss his comment https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/8171#issuecomment-496304938, that proposes the addition of inline color support.

@youknowriad said:

I think that is something we can consider, it should be tracked in its own issue separately from the block level color support tracked in 8171.

@mapk volunteered to create an issue to track this task.

@iseulde said that this task is on the rich text roadmap, but would be good if there’s a separate issue.

@mapk referred that @phpbits volunteered to implement this feature. Thank you @phpbits!

@youknowriad would like some design and 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. explorations and referred that the following questions should be considered:

  • What inline formatting do we want to support aside colors?
  • Do we want to gather these in a panel/popover?
  • In terms of API, how can we control the availability of these options?

Open Floor

@iseulde proposed a dedicated place (a specific meeting/a channel) to have conversations related to the RichText component.

@youknowriad asked why does it need to be separate from the current meeting? While adding that he not suggesting we don’t do it but was wondering if a section during the core editor meeting could be dedicated to RichText when needed.

@iseulde shared that in her opinion core-editor has become very broad and she thinks it might be good to have something smaller. She is not sure about set meeting times, she thinks that perhaps just a space where people can chat async is enough.

The conversation went on with some people trying to understand the current challenges communication related to RichText faces, and some people showing support to the idea of a RichTextspecific communication medium.

@youknowriad ended the meeting by saying that we should experiment and see what works and asked @iseulde to keep us updated.

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Editor Chat Summary, May 22nd

Agenda, Slack Transcript

Announcements

  • WordPress 5.2.1 was released and comes with a few 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. Editor bugfixes, including RTL keyboard navigation and Format 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. ones.

Task Coordination

Slack Transcript

Visibility of documentation

Agenda, Slack Transcript

@karmatosed raises the question of how we can make the User docs and Developer docs more visible. Raised from community engagement.

Action items:

  • Engage docs and marketing. @karmatosed and @chrisvanpatten
  • Publish a make post on existing doc resources. @karmatosed
  • Add links to docs in https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ (to be discussed with marketing). @karmatosed
  • Idea worth exploring: how docs can be surfaced the Help tab in wp-adminadmin (and super admin). Unowned.

Open Floor

Slack transcript

@yannicki asks about the status of adding an inner container to the Group block. It’s in review status and there is some uncertainty around the approach. Will get more attention in the next weeks.

New package @wordpress/data-controls. To be released to npm in next Gutenberg release (expected in a week). @nerrad

Work continues to explore useSelect primitive in @wordpress/data package. @nerrad

Triage sessions: @youknowriad @nerrad @karmatosed

  • these group activities with a set schedule are valuable to bring new contributors and clarify the status of certain proposals
  • this can be resource expensive if they’re ran and attended by the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-team only
  • to be continued and evaluated after a while

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Editor chat summary: May 15

This post summarizes the weekly Editor meeting on Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 4:00 PM GMT+3 held in Slack.

The agenda followed can be found here.

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/ 5.7

Gutenberg 5.7 was released today, congratulations to everyone who participated in this release!

Gutenberg Docs are now in the WordPress DevHub

You can check this out at: https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/  They have also been reorganized for better navigation and discoverability. Props to @nosolosw @chrisvanpatten @coffee2code @mkaz @kenshino.

WordPress 5.3 planning

During the previous dev chat the scope of the WordPress 5.3 was discussed. Today @youknowriad asked what can we get into that release from the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Editor team.

@youknowriad, @aduth, @joen, @getdave proposed new Gutenberg features and updates to land in  WordPress 5.3 (to be released in late August):

Improvements we can safely expect:

  • Columns 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. Resizing
  • Group Block (new block)
  • Nested Block Selection improvements
  • Table Block
  • UIUI User interface improvements: Micro-animations, publishing flow tweaks, Snackbar notifications
  • Selecting parent blocks with clickthrough
  • Block Grouping

Big subjects and uncertain features:

  • A Navigation Block
  • A new widgets screen
  • The Block Registration 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. relying on 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.

Notes:

  • @mapk expressed concern over committing to landing a Navigation Block in WordPress 5.3 because of a lacking clear place to use the block once it becomes available in the Inserter.
  • @youknowriad expressed hope that we’ll soon have a « widgets screen » prototype in the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and clarify whether this can be part of the release or not.
  • @gziolo: 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 is the deadline for new features which means late July to have everything ready

Task Coordination

  • @nerrad:
    • Exposing whether a selector has a resolver
    • New `wordpress/data-controls` package is up for review, requires the above before it can be merged
    • Exposing the registry context object needed for the work related to `useSelect` and other 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.,
    • Some initial experimental work on `useSelect`
    • volunteered to review the RFC docs
  • @karmatosed
    • Next week the goal is to go through the ‘needs design’ and pass over issues to see we didn’t miss anything.
    • Personally focused on herding triages and test posting for RCrelease 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).
    • Volunteered to review the RFC docs
  • @mkaz
  • @jorgefilipecosta
    • Add 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.-areas endpoint, ready for review, and it may be good PR for people with more experience in PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher than JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. to review.ecially
  • @aduth
    • Would like to start looking at persistent user preferences (maybe reduce the frequency in which you see the “Welcome to Gutenberg” tips)
  • @kjellr:
  • @koke:
    • there are more incoming changes to RichText so the mobile team would like to coordinate those better: @sergioestevao and @daniloercoli would be the RichText contacts for iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android respectively.
  • @getdave
  • @nosolosw
    • Helping with docs: fixes, reorganization, 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 DevHub.
    • For the next weeks, iterate on gallery improvements and the ability to reorder images within them (new controls that are keyboard-friendly and drag&drop).
  • @danr:
    • working on table block improvements, there is a new PR open for adding captions
    • WIll work on  exploring keyboard navigation (navigating between cells using arrow keys)
  • @mapk
    • Will  help @danr on those Table block improvements

Explicit Draft statuses for RFCs

There is an increasing worry over the current state of the Widgets RFC because it is hard to make sense of it, or to follow developments as it’s now at over 170 comments. It became a good example that when trying to devise the perfect all-encompassing plan, discussion can become fragmented, we lose sight of the larger goal, and momentum halts.

There was as lively discussion about this and @youknowriad identified the following actionable steps:

To handle multiple merged RFCs @aduth proposed we’d have a Project board with a column for each RFC, and each column would contain issues or PR’s that affect that column’s RFC.

A second Gutenberg triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. session that is more APAC timezones friendly

The proposal is to have a second Gutenberg triage session around 06:00 UTC, every two weeks, in 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/. #core-editor channel, but no day is yet. @danr, @noisysocks and, @andraganescu would attend/run the sessions and we’d love it if others could join/help. The reasoning is that many struggle to attend meetings or triage sessions due to timezones, so this would be a chance to get involved at a more comfortable time of day.

Notes:

  • the general feeling was that it’s a good idea and that it should happen.
  • @youknowriad suggested it could include new contributors help

Closing

Have thoughts on the above? Please leave a comment on this post!

The agenda for the next meeting, on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, 4:00 PM GMT+3 , is here; please add anything that you want to discuss.

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Editor Chat Agenda: May 8th

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 8th May 2019, 13:00 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/..

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

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Editor Chat Agenda: May 1st

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 1st May 2019, 13:00 UTC.

  • 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/ 5.6
  • Tasks Coordination
  • Open Floor

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/..

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

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