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Anthony Burchell 4:51 pm on January 17, 2024
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Phase 3 Media Meeting: February 7, 2024

Date and time: February 7, 2024 at 24:00 UTC
Location: #core-media
Duration: 1:00 hr

The Media Component team is coordinating a meeting with the Editor team and other interested stakeholders to work on planning for the proposed Phase 3 Media Library. There are a few issues already open about the Media Library proposal, but this major development depends on close coordination between the Media and Editor teams to work effectively together.

In a recent Media Component meeting it was suggested that there should be a dedicated meeting time to kick off a round table discussion about some of the opportunities and challenges ahead in the development of Phase 3. The Media Component Maintainers hope to find areas of focus where contributors can lean in to align efforts with folks working on Phase 3.

In previous meetings the team has gone through the backlog of over 600 issues and categorized tickets as phase-3-media-triage for discussion around how Phase 3 could potentially solve these tickets alongside a rebuild of the Media Library. Some of these tickets are an opportunity to change lower level issues like db structure, but the redesign is a good time to address these possibilities.

Relevant Pull Requests, Issues, and Posts:

Phase 3: Collaboration > Media Library

PR Dataview: media view

Media Library

Proposed meeting agenda:

  1. Introductions
  2. Brief presentation on the goals and vision of Phase 3 redesign for the Media Library
  3. Discussion on alignment of CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Media focus to help the process
  4. Agree on communication channels and checkpoints for regular updates
  5. Review of Phase-3-Triage Tickets

A more detailed agenda will be published prior to the meeting.

If you would like to join this meeting please join the #core-media channel February 7, 2024 at 24:00 UTC. This time seems to align with most of the world as a decent hour to meet for stakeholders and folks active in Media.

This meeting happens in the #core-media channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Make WordPress Slack. Props @joedolson for helping prepare and proofread this post.

#agenda, #media, #media-library, #meeting, #phase-3

Joe McGill 8:28 pm on June 30, 2017
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Media meeting recap – June 29, 2017

Overview

This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took place in #core-media on 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/., on Thursday, June 29 at 18:00 UTC. The purpose of these meetings are to move priority tasks forward, provide feedback on issues of interest, and review media focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

Attendees:
@joemcgill, @sergeybiryukov, @mikeschroder, @adamsilverstein, @desrosj, @azaozz, @karmatosed, @matias, @youknowriad, @mkaz, @joen.

Transcript: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02SX62S6/p1498759231771175

Media + 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/

Our agenda this week focussed on getting a better understanding of the current product vision for working with media in Gutenberg in order to coordinate priorities and ensure future improvements to the media component align with the needs of the new editor experience.

The major takeaway from this conversation was that Gutenberg intends to handle the UIUI User interface flows for editing media within post content inside the editor itself rather than relying on the wp.media.frame modal for these actions. The image gallery 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. in Gutenberg is a good example of this change.

Editing gallery settings in the current media modal

The current screen in the media modal for editing gallery settings

 

Editing gallery settings in the Gutenberg sidebar

A preview of editing image gallery settings in the Gutenberg 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.

By handling post-level setting in the editor, people can immediately preview changes in the editor. This change reduces the burden of the current media modal to act primarily as media library, and as a way to manage media information that applies site-wide. This should also make it more clear when changes will affect a media item site-wide, which is a nice UXUX User experience win.

Some next steps

To prepare for this shift, we need to document the current flows that will need to be adjusted in order to support this separation between managing post-level data and site-wide media library data.

Additionally, the Gutenberg team asked for help creating blocks for additional media elements like video, audio, etc. The Gutenberg 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/ repo now contains a “media” label for collecting issues that relate to the media component.

Other housekeeping items

Earlier this week, @desrosj ran a separate 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. scrub focussed on new tickets on the Media component. We plan on running separate scrubs throughout the 4.9 release cycle. If you’re interested in helping with that effort, please contact @desrosj or @joemcgill on Slack.

#gutenberg, #media, #media-library, #media-modal

shaunandrews 3:18 pm on April 22, 2014
Tags: media library, , media-grid   

Remember the Media Grid project It was original…

Remember the Media Grid project? It was original proposed back in the 3.7/3.8 cycle but never really took off — mainly due to our focus on The-Project-Formerly-Known-As-MP6 and 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. team.

Since then, I’ve been working on a plugin in some spare time: https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-grid/

Its messy. Its basic. But I think there’s potential in the idea to bring the media modal’s layout to the Media Library. @helen created a GitHub repo for development: https://github.com/helenhousandi/wp-media-grid-view (Make sure you checkout the issues, especially: https://github.com/helenhousandi/wp-media-grid-view/issues/7)

I’m looking to form a team to work on this project. I think we could have something ready for 4.0, but 4.1 is a possibility as well. It all depends on you. 🙂

I’m looking for any-and-all help, but specifically 1-2 backbone-capable developers with familiarity with the Media Modal would be a huge help.

Maybe we can chat about this a bit during tomorrow’s Dev Chat. Outside of that, lets plan on meeting in #wordpress-ui this Friday, Apr 25 @ 16:00 UTC.

So, are you interested? Leave a comment below and/or join us on Friday. Thanks!

#media-library, #media-modal, #media-grid