Maintainer changes for WordPress/WordPress GitHub repo

Maintenance of the GitHub mirror of the WordPress build repository has recently being transferred to the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ systems team.

In future, any syncing issues with the 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/ mirror should be reported to the system team, either on the make/systems blogblog (versus network, site) of via 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/ #meta channel if you are unable to post a report to the systems blog.

Background

The WordPress git mirror began as an unofficial project maintained by Mark Jaquith an Emeritus Committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component. and WordPress Lead Developer. In 2014 official Git mirrors were created and mirrored to GitHub.

The original GitHub mirror of the build repository continued to be maintained by Mark as it used a different branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch". and tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) naming structure to the official mirror along with different hashes.

Although Mark is no longer active in the project, until recently he has continued maintaining the mirror single handedly. The move to systems will increase the number of people maintaining the sync.

Thank you @markjaquith for maintaining the mirror since you stopped being active in the project day-to-day.

Props @barry and @jorbin for reviewing this post prior to publication.

#git, #github

Summary of the Developer Blog editorial meeting on 5 September 2024

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make 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/. Start of the meeting in Slack.

Attendees: @greenshady @webcommsat @oglekler @ndiego @zeelthakkar @jagirbahesh @bcworkz (async) and @bph (facilitator).

Last meeting notes: Developer Blog editorial meeting summary 1 August 2024



Contributor updates

  • Congrats to @ajlendelende and @aljullu to receiving their Documentation Contributor badges for their contributions to the Developer Blog.  
  • Call for contributors to take on What’s new for Developers roundup post for November? @greenshady @ndiego or I (@bph) will be right with you to guide you through the research as well as the writing part. If you want to take it on, come to the #core-dev-blog channel or DM either one of us.

Newly published posts since last meeting

Since the last meeting, we published the following articles

Huge Thank You to the writer and reviewers! 

Project status

The project board for Developer Blog content is on 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/.

Issues closed

In review

In progress

On the to-do-list, assigned to writers

Topics approved, in need of a writer

If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @bph in Slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.

New topics approved

The topic idea Modifying text with the HTML API in WordPress 6.7 needs to simmer some more to see if there will be more elaborate examples coming in the next major WordPress version. Justin will bring it back to the October meeting should the topic deemed mature enough for a blog post.

Open floor

@greenshady inquired about the possibility of translating the content of the Developer blog into other languages. Currently, there isn’t a formal proposal for a process and tools. It’s worth exploring, though. It was stated that it’s complicated for Rosetta sites, and it might not be easy to translate. It would be better if the translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. can be put right into the adminadmin (and super admin). If there is someone who translated an article, we could publish it on the Dev Blog under “other languages” and once we have a critical mass, we can create categories for Spanish, German etc. The bigger issue than the technological implementation is the recruiting and onboarding of translators to be contributors.

@bph is to reach out to the training team, to learn about their process, as they are a few steps ahead in working with translators.

@greenshady will open an issue, where we can follow up on discussion and progress.

Next meeting: October 3rd, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel

Props to @greenshady for the review of the post.

#meeting, #meta, #summary

Control your contributions with mailmap

In [58899] a .mailmap file was added to WordPress which instruct git and git-aware tooling to alias specific emails and names to a new identity. With this change it’s possible to combine multiple git identities into a single one as well as fix any identities which may be broken in history.

For example, there was a time commits were brought over from Subversion and the emails associated in the git commit followed the form <username@602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82>. For each of these users, there might be other commits referencing <username@git.wordpress.org>. Tools counting commits, history logs, annotations (blames), and others will make it seem as though the commits came from different people.

Further, committers change their names from time to time. Since git history is immutable there’s no easy way to update old names without rewriting the entire project. The .mailmap file provides the necessary mechanism to do this without interrupting that history.

Finally, committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component. names may be corrupted if they contain non-US-ASCII characters. This corruption can be resolved by adding an entry in the .mailmap file correcting the name. This was the motivating case for introducing this file.

Most git tools provide a way to see the underlying raw data, so to see the actual recorded names it’s usually possible to pass --no-use-mailmap.

Would you like to review your own contributions?

If you run git shortlog -ens from the wordpress-develop repo then it will show a listing of commits per committer. If you see any problem with your name, duplicate name/email pairs, or would prefer to update your name, you can add new entries in the .mailmap to make the appropriate adjustments.

# Review variations of my name before adding the .mailmap entry
git shortlog -ens | grep -iE 'dmsnell|dennis'
    98	Dennis Snell <dmsnell@git.wordpress.org>
     1	dmsnell <dmsnell@602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82>

echo "Dennis Snell <dmsnell@git.wordpres.org> dmsnell <dmsnell@602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82>" >> .mailmap

git shortlog -ens | grep -iE 'dmsnell|dennis'
    99	Dennis Snell <dmsnell@git.wordpress.org>

#meta

Developer Blog editorial meeting summary 1 August 2024

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make 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/. Start of the meeting in Slack.

Attendees: @milana_cap, @oglekler, @ironnysh (async), @bcworkz (async) and @bph (facilitator).

Last meeting notes: Developer Blog editorial meeting summary 4 July 2024

Newly published post since the last meeting: 

Since the last meeting, we published the following articles

Huge Thank You to the writer and reviewers! 

Project Status

The project board for Developer Blog content is on 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/.

In review

In Progress:

Post on the To-do-list, assigned to writers.

Topics, approved, in need of a writer

If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @bph in Slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.

New Topics approved

The latter is part of the roll-out of video content type for the Developer Blog, proposed and approved during a meeting on July 4th, 2024: “The next step is that Ryan will submit an overview of all directives of the Interactivity 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 provide an example of the first video. It will also be the test drive of the suggested process from which we can iterate afterward.“

Next meeting: September 5, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel

Props to @oglekler for the review of the post.

#meeting, #meta, #summary

Developer Blog editorial meeting summary 4 July 2024

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make 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/. Start of the meeting in Slack.

Attendees: @welcher @milana_cap, @magdalenapaciorek, @bcworkz (async) and @bph (as facilitator).

Last meeting notes: Developer Blog editorial meeting summary, 6 June 2024

Updates on the site

Thank you to @webcommsat who submitted the Amplification request to marketing celebrating 1000 subscribers of the Dev Blog

We now have a 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/ team set up for Developer Blog Contributors. Every writer and reviewer will be part of it. That way, contributors can label issues, move them forward on the Project board and check off items from a Checklist, like the publishing checklist. We roll this out gradually, one contributor at a time. 

The design team is also working on creating Figma templates for featured images for the blog, which will help standardize and simplify the process of creating featured images.  

Newly published post since the last meeting: 

Since the last meeting, we published four articles.

Huge Thank you to the writer and reviewers! 

Project Status

The project board for Developer Blog content is on GitHub.

In review

In Progress:

Post on the To-do-list, assigned to writers.

Topics, approved, in need of a writer

If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @bph in slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.

New Topics approved

All topic and ideas were approved.

The proposal to introduce video content was also discussed in more depth.

The production process is slightly different from the blog post process, as outlined in the proposal. That is also to make sure that an author doesn’t go through the production of a video and then have it not approved. The danger can be minimized by a multistep approval process of scrip and storyboard before production begins. A new creator could be asked to record a short section for review before going into full production, with opportunity to provide further feedback.

We won’t be able to provide video editing services, but other teams have some great guidelines and tips for creating videos, we can share with future video bloggers.

The proposal also outlines the need for branded assets for thumbnails, lower thirds and outro. We certainly collaborate with the design team, once there is bandwidth available.

The next step is that Ryan will submit an overview of all directives of the Interactivity 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 provide an example of the first video. It will also be the test drive of the suggested process from which we can iterate afterward.

To summarize: Video content is approved in principle, the details need to be ironed out. Thank you to Ryan for the great work on the proposal and volunteering to be the first video blogger.

Next meeting: August 1, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel

Props to @welcher for review of the post.

#meeting, #meta, #summary

Developer Blog editorial meeting summary, 6 June, 2024

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make 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/. Start of the meeting in Slack.

Attendees: @greenshady, @ndiego, @webcommsat, @psykro, @colorful-tones, @milana_cap, @mobarak, @magdalenapaciorek, @juanmaguitar, @bph (as facilitator). @ironnysh and @bcworkz (async)

Last meeting notes: Developer Blog editorial meeting summary, May 2, 2024

Updates on the site

The site has passed the first 1,000 subscribers :rocket: Don’t want to miss the next blog post? Subscribe. And please share the links with your networknetwork (versus site, blog) as well. @webcommsat volunteered to submit an amplification request to the WordPress marketing team to celebrate the milestone with the community.

Newly published post since the last meeting: 

Since the last meeting, we published four articles.

Huge Thank you to the writer and reviewers! 

Project Status

The project board for Developer Blog content is on 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/.

In review

In Progress:

Post on the To-do-list, assigned to writers.

Topics, approved, in need of a writer

If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @bph in slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.

New Topics approved

Topic not approved:

The WordPress Developer Survey – A regular survey could give “the whole project a lot of useful data” There were concerns about logistical challenges and needs further discussion with coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., the marketing team in its new media focus, and with Learn WP. The next step as identified as “to define the purpose of the survey, and what questions would be included/not included.” The discussion continues on GitHub

Open Floor

@webcommsat Inquired about topics schedule around the WordPress 6.6 release. There are a few posts already on the list or were just approved. As almost all topics are assigned to writers. Contributor’s bandwidth will determine the publishing timeline.

@colorful-tones requested input and possible resources on using Playground for his upcoming post on the developer Blog: a Good starting point is the Blueprint Gallery and an example from @greenshady on GitHub.

@colorful-tones has slightly changed the topic of his post he has been working on. It was originally thought to be an Interactivity 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. tutorial, but as you can read in the issue he went a different route. It was concluded that “it’s still a valuable post for the Dev Blog”, “the new focus is still really useful” and “the underlying method doesn’t need to be the same as the originally proposed method”

Next meeting: July 4, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel

Props to @greenshady for review of the post.

#meeting, #meta, #summary

Developer Blog editorial meeting summary, May 2, 2024

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make 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/. Start of the meeting in Slack.

Attendees: @greenshady, @ironnysh, @ndiego, @milana_cap @bph (as facilitator). @bcworkz and @webcommsat (async)

Last meeting notes: Developer Blog editorial meeting summary, April 4, 2024

Updates on the site

Congrats to our new contributors to get their Documentation Contributor badges: @jsnajdr @beafialho @magdalenapaciorek @ironnysh @jonsurrell @luisherranz @cbravobernal and @flexseth

Newly published post since the last meeting: 

Since the last meeting, we published articles by new writers and received support from more reviewers. (see above)

Huge Thank you to the writer and reviewers! 

Project Status

The project board for Developer Blog content is on 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/.

In Progress:

Post on the To-do-list, assigned to writers.

Topics, approved in in need of a writer

If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to write about them, comment on the Issue or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @bph in slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.

Topics closed

  • Learnings from two Site Migrations After consulting Jasmine, it was clear that her idea wasn’t suitable for the developer blog. I offered to assist her to publish some place else.

New Topics approved

Topics not approved:

There were no clear approval signals, and it seems the topics still need to narrow down the proposal to clear problem statements and suggested solutions. The discussions continue.

Open Floor

Next meeting: Jun 6, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel

Props to @greenshady for review of the post.

#meeting, #meta, #summary

Developer Blog editorial meeting summary, April 4, 2024

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make 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/. Start of the meeting in Slack.

Attendees: @greenshady, @matteoenna, @ironnysh, @colorful-tones, @magdalenapaciorek, @bph (as facilitator),

Last meeting notes: Developer Blog editorial meeting summary, March 7, 2024

Updates on the site

Authors reported a few hiccups with the code 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.. As soon as you wanted to attach a programming language for color coding, extraneous <br> tags appeared and rendered the code block useless. @ndiego, @greenshady and the #meta team are working on it to get this fixed asap.

Newly published post since the last meeting:

Since the last meeting, we published quite a list of articles, and we onboarded new writers and received support from more reviewers. Three first time writers with @meszarosrob, @jsnajdr and @beafialho Thank you! 🎉

Huge “Thank you” to the writers and reviewers for bringing fabulous content to WordPress!

Project Status

Ready to for publishing

Reviews needed

In Progress:

Post on the To-do-list, assigned to writers.

Topics still in need of a writer

If you are interested in taking on a topic from this list or know someone who would be a good person to writer about them, comment on the Issue or pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” @bph in slack either in the #core-dev-blog channel or in a DM.

New Topics approved

@greenshady mentioned:

“There’s one other topic from last month that was not formally approved, @bph. I feel like with the additional info, we should probably take a look at it. (sorry for not bringing this up earlier): https://github.com/WordPress/developer-blog-content/discussions/230.”

There were no clear approval signals and seems the topic still needs clarification and will be revisited for next meeting.

Open Floor

Some clarification on the Playground articles/topics:

We originally had the topic approved:How to build a theme demo with WP Playground blueprints
Ronny took it on and wrote a fabulous Introduction/Overview of WordPress Playground. There was some discussion on how to proceed next. The consensus was that the Introduction post was a great post to have on the Developer Blog as each subsequent Playground tutorial could refer to it and doesn’t have to cover the basics anymore. Quite a few people from the Editorial group chimed in on the discussion and agreed to have it published. (note: the post is live now)

Ronny also wrote a Tutorial on How to use WordPress Playground for handovers. It was approved earlier. We still need a writer for How to build a theme demo with WP Playground blueprints 

Next meeting: May 2, 2024, at 13:00 UTC in the #core-dev-blog channel

Props to @greenshady for review of the post.

#meeting, #summary

Recap Hallway Hangout: What’s next for the outreach program?

A group of contributors came together to discuss the Proposal: What’s next for the Outreach program.

Participants were @fabiankaegy @ndiego @greenshady, @poena and @bph (facilitator).

We recorded the discussion and it’s available on YouTube.

The meeting discussed ways to improve the WordPress outreach program and user feedback processes.

Key points included:

Renaming the FSC Outreach channel to “Outreach” to broaden its scope beyond experiments.

The channel was renamed #outreach. Big Thank You to the #meta team. Come and join us.

Creating a 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/ team for contributors to provide early feedback on features through calls for testing.

During the discussion the problem came up how to connect developer working on WordPress features with extenders or agency developers. One suggested way is to create a new subteam in the WordPress GitHub organization called “Outreach”. This team is public and allows anyone on GitHub to use the @wordpress/outreach handle to pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” the people in the listed there and ask them for feedback or testing. Similar groups are already available for “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. Themers” “AccessibilityAccessibility 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)”.  If you are interested in being part of the group, notice that in the comment and share your GitHub account.

This handle should be used to raise any issues or pull requests where someone is looking for feedback / testing. So if you are working on a feature and are hoping to get so me additional insights from a diverse set of users from different backgrounds, please don’t hesitate to ping this group.

Working with the testing team to organize smaller, more manageable calls for testing.

The two test team reps, @webtechpooja and @ankit-k-gupta will add a discussion to their next meeting of the test team on Feb 27, at 11 UTC. If you are a contributor interested in putting user call for testings together, you might want to join in the meeting.

Encouraging engineers to use the Outreach channel for feedback on new features earlier in development.

Contributors felt that sometimes soliciting input before a feature is fully merged and pushed to a major releasemajor release A release, identified by the first two numbers (3.6), which is the focus of a full release cycle and feature development. WordPress uses decimaling count for major release versions, so 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, and 3.1 are sequential and comparable in scope., it could use additional feedback from extenders and agencies. As example: Pattern overrides that don’t have a theme component and don’t alleviate the pain point that there is no way for theme developers to bundle synch patterns with overrides with their themes.

The information around new features or enhancements is not always easy accessible. There is a need to have an ongoing exchange between the engineering teams, test team and outreach contributors to determine the right timing for calls for testing.

Creating a wishlist for each upcoming release to gather input on user priorities.

This is referring to a post made before WordPress 6.4 WordPress 6.4: What’s on your wishlist? More research is required. It also overlaps with the Extensibility Issues Triage initiative that meets once a month to look at issues that concern extensibility and could be pushed forward. Next meeting March 14, 2024, at 12:00 UTC in #core-editor channel

The goal is to make the outreach program more accessible and sustainable, improve collaboration across teams, and help guide WordPress development through early and ongoing user and contributor input.

Props for co-writing to @fabiankaegy and for review to @greenshady and @ndiego.

#outreach

Performance Chat Summary: 7 February 2023

Meeting agenda here and the full chat log is available beginning here on Slack.

Announcements

  • Reminder: Performance team roadmap for 2023 https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/631 If you’re actively contributing to the WordPress Performance Team or plan to do so this year, please share your priorities for 2023 as a comment on this issue before end of day Wednesday February 15, 2023
  • Team rep nomination reminder, please add your nominations for Performance Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts. by Friday, February 24 2023

Focus area updates

Images

@adamsilverstein @mikeschroder

GitHub project

Feedback requested

Object Cache

@tillkruess @spacedmonkey

GitHub project

Feedback requested

Measurement

N/A

GitHub project

  • @joegrainger making good progress on 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. Checker. We’re starting to finalise the infrastructure and should have a working plugin running some initial checks by end of the month. You can track progress on the GitHub repo and leave any thoughts/ideas you may have. The repo will be moved to the WordPress organisation when ready
  • @mukesh27 I would like to share an update for Automated Performance Testing that @adamsilverstein already share blog post on WordPress core.
    • Issues that completed and merged in feature/automated-performance-testing-mvp branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for any minor releases of that branch. Sometimes, a major version of WordPress and its minor versions are collectively referred to as a "branch", such as "the 4.0 branch"..
    • AC ready for review.
    • We will open a PR against the WordPress trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running "trunk", then you are on the latest revision. once the initial version is complete. Feel free to take a look at the issues and leave any thoughts or ideas you may have.
  • @joemcgill Additionally, I’ve been starting to work on an experimental implementation of XHProf with wp-env to help make it easier for folks to do general performance profiling tasks. See: https://github.com/joemcgill/gutenberg/pull/1 as a starting point.
  • @10upsimon updates on Enhancing the Scripts 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. with a loading strategy
    • Documentation approved, although there was a comment added post approval that I have addressed. It does not change the work, but it does result in the need to confirm that the blocking strategy is not to be confused with the blocking  script attribute itself.
    • GitHub issues have been finalized and broken down into 4x milestones in a separate sheet, estimates are present for all issues in the sheet, although not all issues are in GH yet.
    • GH Issues and AC’s have been added to the project board for Milestones 1, 2 and 3 and have been assigned to @joemcgill for review. It looks like all except for one have been approved (at the time of writing) as they’ve been moved to the backlog
    • I’m in the process of breaking down issues for Milestone 4
    • 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. to be posted by Friday, I see no risks thereto.
    • Engineering will commence next week on Milestones 1, 2 and 3

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JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. & CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets.

@aristath @sergiomdgomes

GitHub project

  • No updates

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Database

@olliejones

GitHub project

  • @olliejones I’ve been hammering on the low end persistent object cache, looks good.
  • @aristath These past couple of weeks I continued working on the SQLite database implementation. There’s a lot of work to do, but things are looking good. Started collaborating with @zieladam as well in an effort to improve some things and make the implementation more stable.

Feedback requested

Infrastructure

@flixos90

GitHub project

Feedback requested

Open Floor

  • @flixos90 Just sharing here that I discovered (probably?) a major performance 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. in 6.2 for classic themes: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57648
    • I’m going to follow up on that ticket shortly to collaborate with @oandregal as he is seeing slightly different results. Of course there is a chance that something specifically in my analysis went wrong, but we will have to validate that data

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