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Sarah Norris 2:35 pm on December 2, 2024
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Summary, Dev Chat, November 27, 2024

Start of the meeting in 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/., facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post.

As mentioned at the top of today’s agenda, from today forward, the weekly Dev Chat times will be back to 20:00 UTC.

Announcements

WordPress 6.7.1 was released on November 21, 2024.

Forthcoming releases

Next 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.: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle. You can review the next major release milestone.
The call for volunteers for the 6.8 release squad is open until Dec 6. A call for volunteers for the release squad has been published here.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.2

There is currently no release date planned for WordPress 6.7.2. You can review the next minor release milestone. @desrosj suggested that mid to late January is a good ballpark at the moment, as there are no urgent issues after 6.7.1.

Next 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/ release: 19.8

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.8, scheduled for December 4. It will include the following issues. Reading the release posts, like What’s new in Gutenberg 19.7 is a great way to see what is being worked on for the next major release.

Discussion

There were no topics proposed for this week. As a reminder, anyone can propose discussion topics for these meetings by commenting on the agenda posts each week or reach out to @mikachan or @joemcgill (the current CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team Reps) directly.

Open Floor

@azaozz mentioned ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #62504, which seems somewhat common judging by the number of duplicate tickets.

Was wondering if having just a hotfix 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 will be sufficient until 6.7.2 considering it would probably be released next year.

A current workaround for folks is to update the Classic Editor plugin. The same issue affects any plugins that still use the old Edit Posts screen to edit custom post types, and we recommended that these plugins apply the hotfix to work around the issue until the fix is backported to 6.7.2.

Props to @joemcgill for reviewing.

#6-8, #core, #dev-chat, #summary

Emily Clarke 4:56 pm on November 26, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 26 November 2024

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

Announcements

  • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
  • Last week (Nov 20) saw the release of Performance Lab 3.6.1

Priority Items

  • WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
  • Performance Lab 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 other performance plugins)
  • Active priority projects

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

  • @westonruter For Image Prioritizer I have a new PR which is preloading LCP background images which are defined in external CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. files or in stylesheets in STYLE tags. Up until now, it would only preload background images which were defined inline with style attributes. This was a big limitation since from what I’ve seen page builders very frequently use non-inline styles, for example to be able to do viewport-specific images on mobile and desktop. My finding is that this can improve LCP by 20% on an Elementor-built page! https://github.com/WordPress/performance/pull/1697 
    • This also improves LCP for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. themes like Twenty Thirteen that have a CSS background image for the headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes.. I measured a ~9% improvement. The PR is ready for review, but I still need to add tests.

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • No updates this week

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

Open Floor

  • Agreed for the December 16 release to be skipped and a smaller special release scheduled for Dec 2
    • The next release will be scheduled for January 20, 2025
  • This meeting will not take place on:
    • Tuesday December 24
    • Tuesday December 31
    • It will resume again on Tuesday January 7, 2025

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

#core-performance, #hosting, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

Sarah Norris 11:14 am on November 25, 2024
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Summary, Dev Chat, November 20, 2024

Start of the meeting in 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/., facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post.

As mentioned at the top of today’s agenda, from today forward, the weekly Dev Chat times will be back to 20:00 UTC.

Announcements

WordPress 6.7.1 is now available! Thanks so much to everyone who helped prepare this release.

Forthcoming releases

Next 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.: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle. You can review and give feedback on the proposed release schedule for 2025 on this post. A call for volunteers for the release squad has been published here.

Next maintenance release: 6.7.1

We discussed the plan to release WP 6.7.1 on Thursday, November 21, at 13:30 UTC, according to this schedule.

Next 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/ release: 19.8

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.8, scheduled for December 4.

Discussion

@johnbillion mentioned doing some analysis of how often tickets are bumped from one major release to the next, as there are currently >200 tickets in the 6.8 milestone on Trac. @joemcgill suggested doing a scrub of the existing tickets and moving any that have been bumped more than one release to “Future Release”. We also discussed keeping an eye on how often tickets are bumped during the 6.8 cycle.

Open Floor

We started with a call for volunteers that @bph shared:

From the Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) content board we identified six approved topics that are looking for writers. Check out the issues and if you want to tackle a topic, comment on it.
For questions, join us in the #core-dev-blog channel 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 (me) .

@remy mentioned ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #51525, which proposes adding two new functions, apply_filters_single_type() and apply_filters_ref_array_single_type():

we have a separate repo where we are doing the changes and testing them live in our plugins, but we were waiting for feedbacks before merging the changes up to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.

We discussed that it would be good to look at this soon and consider it for the 6.8 release.

#6-7-1, #6-8, #core, #dev-chat, #summary

Emily Clarke 5:04 pm on November 19, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 19 November 2024

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

Announcements

  • Welcome to our new members of #core-performance
  • Yesterday (Nov 18) saw the release of:
    • Performance Lab 3.6.0
    • Optimization Detective 0.8.0
    • Modern Image Formats 2.3.0

Priority Items

  • WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
    • Current release (6.7 released last week)
    • Future releases
  • Performance Lab 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 other performance plugins)
  • Active priority projects

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

  • @joemcgill It’s not really clear what that release schedule will be yet, but we can already start planning our priorities
  • @mukesh27 Tomorrow we have 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 so we can take a look tickets in 6.8 milestone

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

  • @westonruter The most recent Optimization Detective release from yesterday has a key change that addresses an under-collection of URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org Metrics from site visits. However, this change might result in collecting too much (or at least too many attempting to be submitted). So especially for high traffic sites, I’ve opened this issue along with @flixos90 to investigate further: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1655 Something to monitor this month
  • @westonruter For Image Prioritizer, I’ve had this issue on my radar for awhile which tackles a big missing piece for optimizing the LCP element’s background image when it is not defined inline (as is very commonly the case, like in Elementor, Divi, and even older coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. themes’ headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. images): https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1584
  • @westonruter Relatedly, something which isn’t being optimized at all right now is text, er, fonts. I wrote up a possible plan to implement a new “Text Prioritizer” plugin based on Optimization Detective which I’d love feedback on: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1313#issuecomment-2460537346
  • @adamsilverstein There are probably some other opportunities to optimize fonts as well, so maybe “Font Optimizer“. Thinking about web fallbacks to reduce CLS for example. eg. some of the optimizations from https://github.com/unjs/fontaine look like they could apply in WordPress

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • No updates this week

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

Open Floor

  • @westonruter Last week I learned that content-visibility is now available in all browsers (it is Baseline). This is something else I’m eager to explore implementing with Optimization Detective: https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/1308
  • @shyamgadde Yesterday, after new versions of some plugins were released, I tried to activate and install them from the Performance Lab settings page. However, the old versions were being installed instead. The issue seems to be that the plugin data, including the version number and download link, were stored in a transient, causing older versions to be downloaded. This behavior doesn’t seem correct. Perhaps when installing or activating a plugin, we should consider bypassing or refreshing the transient to ensure the latest version is used.
    • @mukesh27 requested to open an issue in the performance repo
    • @westonruter The transient shouldn’t be related to the version being installed

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

#core-performance, #hosting, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

Sarah Norris 7:14 pm on November 14, 2024
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Summary, Dev Chat, November 13, 2024

Start of the meeting in 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/., facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements

WordPress 6.7 “Rollins” was released on November 12, 2024. A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this release!

To quote the release post:

WordPress 6.7 reflects the tireless efforts and passion of more than 780 contributors in countries all over the world. This release also welcomed over 230 first-time contributors!

Forthcoming releases

Next 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.: 6.8

We are currently in the WordPress 6.8 release cycle.

Next maintenance release

There are no maintenance releases planned at this time.

Next 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/ release: 19.7

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.7, scheduled for November 20.

Discussion

There were two main topics today:

  1. Immediate issues that need to be addressed following the release
  2. Confirming volunteers to coordinate upcoming maintenance releases following 6.7

There are currently no immediate issues requiring a quick minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality., so the first minor will likely be released in around 30 days.

@azaozz mentioned #62401 as something that may need addressing soon, but it is from 6.6 rather than 6.7.

@oglekler also raised #62413 for potential inclusion in the next minor release.

We also discussed the need to start to identify volunteers who are willing to help with minor releases as they are ready. We already have a list of 21 issues (1 fixed) set to the 6.7.1 release milestone. @joemcgill suggested we do a call for volunteers if needed next week.

Props to @joemcgill for proofreading.

#6-7, #core, #dev-chat, #summary

Emily Clarke 5:28 pm on November 12, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 12 November 2024

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

Announcements

Priority Items

  • WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
    • Current release
    • Future releases
  • Performance Lab 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 other performance plugins)
  • Active priority projects

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

  • @joemcgill Nothing specific for WP 6.7 at this point. I expect will produce a final set of benchmarks for the release and write up a performance review post, as has been our tradition for the last several releases.

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • No updates this week

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

Open Floor

  • No updates this week

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

#core-performance, #hosting, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

Birgit Pauli-Haack 7:56 pm on November 7, 2024
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Summary of the Developer Blog editorial meeting on 7 November 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 @oglekler @milana_cap @ndiego (async) and @bph (facilitator).

Last meeting notes: Last meeting: Dev Blog editorial meeting summary, October 3, 2024 – Thanks to @webcommsat for putting these notes together.

In this article

Updates on the site

We started a new Content post type called Snippet. The first snippet was published and is available here.  Snippet: Conditionally unregister patterns it also has two additional taxonomies: 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 Coding language, here: Patterns and PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher. 

Thank you to @welcher who wrote 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 to enable the CPTs. It also includes the Video CPT that will be used for original Video content as well as Developer Hours posts, we discussed in earlier meetings. 

For the short Snippets, a more streamlined approval process was suggested to test later this month:  

  • There’ll be a short async meeting every other week with a list of potential snippets.
  • Voting will be open for two days from Wednesday morning UTC and until Thursday late afternoon UTC.
  • Snippets approval meeting is scheduled for November 20, 2024.

Our 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/ process going from topic discussion to issue is temporarily broken due to GitHub 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. Testing a new Issues module. They are aware of it and estimate that it will be fixed in a few weeks. Current work-around: copy/paste from discussion to new issue.

On the blog we also updated the the Educational Resources on the front page to the new Learning Path courses from the training team!

📣 We will move the January meeting to Jan. 9th, 2025 at 13:00 UTC, due to Holiday season.

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 GitHub.

In review

In progress

On the to-do-list, assigned to writers

We have approved topics that still require a writer:

If you know someone who could tackle any of those topics, please comment on the particular issue

New topics approved

@greenshady commented in regard to Extending the Query Loop default fields: “Just an extra discussion point to consider: we already have two posts that dive into this: Building a book review grid with a Query Loop block variation and Building a book review site with Block Bindings, part 2: Queries, patterns, and templates. The big difference is in the examples themselves. There’s nothing wrong with additional examples, though, if someone really wants to write it out. Plus, I know this proposal came as more of a support request from #outreach.In general, I’m good with 🟢 on this but just wanted to mention the above. “

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

Props to @greenshady for the review of the post.

#meeting, #summary

Sarah Norris 1:06 pm on November 6, 2024
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Summary, Dev Chat, November 6, 2024

Start of the meeting in 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/., facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements

WordPress 6.7 RC 3 has been released. Thanks to everyone who participated in the release party.

Forthcoming releases

Next 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.: 6.7

We are currently in the WordPress 6.7 release cycle. WordPress 6.7 dry run is scheduled for Monday, November 11, with the full release scheduled for Tuesday, November 12. For specific release times, review the release party schedule post.

There are a couple more items that need to be backported since 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). 3, such as 62305. 62061 also needs a dev notedev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include a description of the change, the decision that led to this change, and a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. which includes a list of changes that were made during this release related to improving PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher 8.4 support, which @desrosj and @marybaum offered to help with.

Next maintenance release

There are no maintenance releases planned at this time.

Next 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/ release: 19.6

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.6, scheduled for November 6.

Discussion

@peterwilsoncc has requested that we follow up the the following list of items during Dev Chat, if they have not already been resolved by then:

  • Status of TT5 (cc @poena @juanfra), will need to be async due to timezones
  • Status of GB packages (cc @get_dave @kevin940726)
  • Following tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets need 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. sign-off for 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.

@peterwilsoncc confirmed that most of the backports in that list are complete: #62305 is the only one remaining. @get_dave reported packages were done. @joemcgill noted there are some remaining commits for Twenty Twenty-Five to come in. As there are several commits landing after RC 3, there is a plan to do a silent RC 4 ahead of the dry run next week, likely on November 7.

Open Floor

@justlevine requested some feedback on the following:

Id love to get some eyes/feedback on the PHPStan config over on https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/61175 .

The errors detected there have already resulted in a handful of merged PRs (via https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/52217 ) including a bugfix in 6.7, so already showing its worth.

@desrosj offered to help progress these.

Props to @joemcgill for proofreading.

#6-7, #core, #dev-chat, #summary

Emily Clarke 9:36 am on November 6, 2024
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Performance Chat Summary: 5 November 2024

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

Announcements

Priority Items

  • WordPress performance TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. tickets
  • Performance Lab 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 other performance plugins)
  • Active priority projects

WordPress Performance Trac Tickets

  • As it’s 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). 3 today, anything we need to discuss there?
  • Looking ahead, we have 16 performance tickets lined up for 6.8

Performance Lab Plugin (and other Performance Plugins)

  • @westonruter posted a comment yesterday here about how we’ll need to bump the Tested Up To versions for a few plugins this week [see Slack]
  • @mukesh27 If anyone have moment then please review coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. 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. context PR https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/7522

Active Priority Projects

Improving the calculation of image size attributes

Enable Client Side Modern Image Generation

  • No updates this week

Enhance Onboarding Experience of Performance Lab Plugin

  • No updates this week

Open Floor

  • No updates this week

Our next chat will be held on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 16:00 UTC in the #core-performance channel in Slack.

#core-performance, #hosting, #performance, #performance-chat, #summary

Sarah Norris 10:10 pm on October 30, 2024
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Summary, Dev Chat, October 30, 2024

Start of the meeting in 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/., facilitated by @joemcgill. 🔗 Agenda post.

Announcements

WordPress 6.7 RC 2 was released on October 29. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release and attended the release party!

Forthcoming releases

Next 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.: 6.7

We are currently in the WordPress 6.7 release cycle. WordPress 6.7 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). 3 is scheduled for Tuesday, November 5. For specific release times, review the release party schedule post.

There are a few open issues on the next major report. @peterwilsoncc mentioned that @adamsilverstein and @azaozz have been working on some fixes for HEIC images that have been committed to 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. (#62272 and #62305). Most other items are tasks to make sure the old files list is updated, editor commits, etc.

#61094 was also recently reopened, which should hopefully be quick to review.

Next maintenance release

There are no maintenance releases planned at this time.

Next 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/ release: 19.6

The next Gutenberg release will be 19.6, scheduled for November 6.

Discussion

@poena gave an update on TT5:

There are still text string changes that needs approval from the Polyglots teamPolyglots Team Polyglots Team is a group of multilingual translators who work on translating plugins, themes, documentation, and front-facing marketing copy. https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/. since we are past the string freeze in 6.7. Because of that, the string changes did not make it into RC2. It seems unclear how to get the approval or who can give it.

There are still changes being made to how some colors are applied, both to improve the user experience and the color contrast ratios.

After Dev Chat, @audrasjb helped to approve and commit the string changesets for TT5.

@joemcgill raised: Seems like last release, there was a lot of last minute coordination around marketing efforts to unify content between the about page and a standalone site for the release. Any idea how those efforts are coming along this release?

@ryelle confirmed that this should be all good; the content for the About page is the same as the release page, and was finalized with RC1. Tracking the wp.org release page is here: https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-main-2022/issues/506.

Open Floor

@joemcgill asked: I’d like to get some input about when we should consider moving these Dev Chat times back to the original time, before we changed it for this release cycle. I still think that this time shift was a good idea to enable more of the release squad to attend. However, the impact has definitely been lower engagement.

It was discussed that the earliest date to move back to the original time of 20:00 UTC would be November 20, after the 6.7 release, just in case there is some early follow-up that needs input from release squad Tech Leads that would otherwise not be able to attend.

Props to @joemcgill for proofreading.

#6-7, #core, #dev-chat, #summary