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Paal Joachim Romdahl 8:30 pm on December 4, 2019
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Core editor chat summary 4th December, 2019

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting agenda here. Held on Wednesday, 4th December 2019 held in Slack. Moderated by @ellatrix.

Full Site Editing and themes

@ellatrix
The idea here is to recap what’s being worked on, what has been discussed in #themereview yesterday’s meeting and provide some space for feedback and discussions about the next steps.
Must Read:
– Summary for yesterday’s #themereview meeting
https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2019/12/04/questions-about-the-future-of-themes/
– Documentation for the current state of 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 themes
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/18890

@youknowriad
The main takeaways/action items for me are:
– Let’s have theme authors experiment with these in 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//personal themes and provide feedback: Gather a list of Missing blocks?
– Potentially help build a demo theme in 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/ in this folder https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/master/lib/demo-block-templates/index.html
– From the editor side, continue on the current PRs/work https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/labels/%5BFeature%5D%20Full%20Site%20Editing

@williampatton
Sounds good to me, in addition we will also be doing more to get stuck in and help you all out with comments, PRs and testing as we all make time for it in the coming weeks.

@noisysocks
If I’m a theme author and read these incredibly helpful links and have some questions or comments, where should I put them?

@youknowriad
I think at the moment (only during experiment phase), it should be fine to ask here and raise Github issues for bugs. We should also take these as opportunities to document things as we move forward from both themers and devs.

Weekly Priorities

@youknowriad
I’d like to share the new priorities post for December in case you missed it https://make.wordpress.org/core/2019/12/03/whats-next-in-gutenberg-december/
An emphasize on Block content areas / Full site editing and also a push for Block Patterns APIs and usage across blocks and inserter in addition to a few tightening up items.

Task Coordination

@aduth
I’ve been focusing more on framework-y stuff:
– Get types checking in place https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/18838
– A never-ending crusade to stabilize Travis build
Hoping in the next week to revisit some feature work:
– Better _fields handling in wordpress/apiFetch and/or wordpress/data
– Revisit spoken messages in Notice pull request
– Also been fixing up a few theme interoperability issues, notably around background colors for custom editor styles:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/18732
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/18871
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/18873

@noisysocks
I’m somewhat looking at deprecating the wordpress/nux package but mostly reviewing PRs this week.

@ellatrix
I’ve been working on “Lighter block DOM: detached controls in popovers”, improvements on Popover, multi block selection, and paste on multi block selection.

@get_dave
I’ve been working on…
…a PR to allow parent blocks to capture the Block toolbars of all child blocks which is just waiting on a thumbs up from @jorgefilipecosta:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/18440
…adding justification tools to the Navigation Block:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/18909

@jorgefilipecosta
Past week:
– Reviewed some media-related PR’s, namely the refactor to the gallery, to increase reusability with the native mobile APP.
– Helped the enhancements to useColors and merged the PR that uses the hook in the paragraph.
– Finish the remove editor module usages in block-editor by applying changes to the reusable blocks, rich-text, and native inserter. Some PR’s are waiting for a review.
– Updated the release tool to move readme and changelog files to the Github repository.
– Submitted several 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.
– Continued the interactions/enhancements on the PR’s I have open e.g.: custom gradients.
Next week:
– Increase my involvement with the FSE work (by reviewing PR’s and working on a subtask — Suggestions for a possible subtask are welcome 🙂 ).
– Continue giving my support to some media-related PR’s by reviewing and testing them, and maybe submit follow up enhancements.
– Rebase Update the buttons block PR and try to unblock the PR.
– Address reviews Add a mechanism to set a width on withViewportMatch https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/17085.
– Fix some 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. related issues.

@youknowriad
I’ve mostly trying to make sure everyone is not blocked and also worked on some PR’s related to the block toolbar/UIUI User interface (fixed toolbar, select/edit modes…) and some code quality refactorings.

@richtabor
I have a PR for adding background color support to the Columns block:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/17813

@welcher
I have a small docs PR that explains how to work with the changes to serverSideRender location: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/18722

@gziolo
Last week:
– Worked on fixes for 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. introduced in the block toolbar.
– Refactoring towards using the new accessible version of Toolbar component.
– CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. to simplify the process of updating Gutenberg packages after every 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 release.
Next week:
– Resume work on 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. once we decide which blocks should be integrated (Table?, Cover?).
– Resume work 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. transformation on the client side to allow automatic handling of translations.

Open Floor

@gziolo
Resume work on Patterns API once we decide which blocks should be integrated (Table?, Cover?)
We have Columns block integrate, we use some sort of setup step for Table block, should we integrate it with Patterns API as well?
The challenge is that it needs to allow the custom creator as well.

We tried Media & Text but we abandoned this idea
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/16283#issuecomment-508132004
Information here: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/18343

There was additional conversations about patterns and transforms during the open floor: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB2JS7/p1575469981089100

#core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #summary

Alain Schlesser 4:01 pm on November 19, 2018
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PHP Meeting Recap – November 12th

This recap is a summary of our previous PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher meeting. It highlights the ideas and decisions which came up during that meeting, both as a means of documenting and to provide a quick overview for those who were unable to attend.

You can find this meeting’s chat log here.

Chat Summary

  • @schlessera adapted the README.md in the Servehappy repository so that it just links to the Feature Project page, to avoid requiring both to stay in sync.
  • Adding support for PHP version requirements to themes was discussed (Meta Trac #3718). The current state of the requirement for themes to have a readme.txt file does not seem to be clearly defined, as the only source of truth is the combination of an old blog post from 2015 and its collection of comments.
  • @afragen proposed to split the individual next actions for theme support into separate tickets, just as we did with plugins.
  • We also initiated contact with one of the team leads of the #themereview team (@williampatton) to discuss the current state of the theme’s readme.txt requirements.
  • @schlessera noted that while it seems we need to help move some unrelated stuff forward to get around our own blockers, we should be careful to avoid taking on too much responsibility and wasting our time on unrelated efforts.

Next week’s meeting

  • Next meeting will take place on Monday, November 19th, 2018 at 15:00 UTC in #core-php.
  • Agenda: Open floor.
  • If you have suggestions about this but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account.

#core-php, #php, #servehappy, #summary

whitneyyadrich 7:19 pm on September 18, 2018
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Dev Chat Summary: September 12, 2018 (4.9.9 week 5)

This post summarizes the weekly dev chat meeting held Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 20:00 UTC. Agenda | Slack archive

4.9.9 Planning

We have a Road Map and she is gorgeous. Thank you @antpb and @schlessera for putting it together. Here’s a summary:

Suggested Timeline

We will reassess these dates after the three-week mark:

  • 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. : Monday October 22, 2018
  • Release Candidaterelease 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). : Monday October 29, 2018
  • Release Date : Monday November 5, 2018

Key Focuses

  • Internationalization (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.)
  • 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)
  • Site Health Project (Servehappy)
  • 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/ Merge Prep
  • Other potential inclusions

If you’re interested in helping out with these topics, hit up these 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/. channels:

*Not real but should be.

Bug Scrubs

  • The plan is to run them weekly in the #core Slack channel across multiple timezones. Schedule 👏 Coming 👏 Soon 👏

Focus Lead and Component Maintainer Updates

Notes and Summary Posts

Additional Updates/Requests

  • From PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher Servehappy: More testers are needed for the WSOD protection on real-life, complex sites to reveal edge cases. A “complex site” is basically any site running locally with random plugins and random code.

If you’re thinking about get all up in these Focus and Component Maintainer teams, try attending a chat. Here’s the comprehensive list.

Open Floor

Tickets

Anyone can submit a ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. for the Open Floor. Send your submission to @jeffpaul or moi (@whitneyyadrich), or comment on the agenda for that week’s chat.

General Announcements

Dev Chat Schedule

@psykro published his proposal for a second <dev chat> and it’s open for your comments. I’m sure we’ll touch on this during tomorrow’s dev chat, too. 

As always, anyone is welcome to join <dev chat> every Wednesday at 20:00 UTC. As I said in the chat, to sorta quote the late, great Notorious B.I.G.

I’m goin’ go call my WP crew
You go call your WP crew
We can rendezvous in <dev chat> tomorrow around two (or Wednesday at 20:00 UTC)

#summary, #4-9-9, #core, #dev-chat

Jeffrey Paul 3:59 am on October 20, 2016
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Dev Chat Summary: October 12 (4.7 week 8)

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from October 12th (agenda, Slack archive).

Reminders

Feature Proposals for 4.7

  • REST API: Content API (@kadamwhite)
    • REST API Team Update
    • Content 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. endpoints have been stable for some time and now have the missing functionality established at the start of this development cycle
    • We pitched merging in the OAuth 1 server alongside those content endpoints, to simplify the process of authenticating from remote applications
    • The auth method in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. right now is cookie/nonce-based, so it’s available to any code running within the same domain as the main WordPress install and leverages the existing login cookie
    • plugins and themes that utilize JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. to enhance the editing experience within their adminadmin (and super admin) UIUI User interface have full read/write access, restricted to the capabilities of the authenticated user
    • External applications, e.g. a mobile app, desktop app or external server, would have read-only access
    • readers, aggregators, etc are possible without authentication, and more complex read-write apps can be written by installing one of the available authentication plugins, of which OAuth is but one
    • Reference for options and when/how to use
    • 90 contributors for the rest-api 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
    • automated test coverage currently at 90.44%
    • 37 more open tickets
    • weekly meeting on Monday at 1400UTC in #core-restapi
  • Discovering and installing themes in the customizer (@celloexpressions)
    • Related Make/Design and Make/Flow posts, but best to post all feedback to the Make/Core feature proposal
    • Working through the 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) feedback, but it’s a bit unclear what’s specific to this feature versus 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. in general, and which issues are also present in the admin theme installer
    • Haven’t heard anything from polyglots, security (unlikely to have any issues), or docs
    • There is one known 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. concern where we’ll need a compromise until we have JS i18n in core
    • @celloexpressions to do a final iteration to pick up any remaining feedback on Thursday, then pass to @westonruter for the code review process
  • Custom CSS with live previews (@celloexpressions)
    • seems to have decent support as a feature, with the biggest question in the comments being how to store and output the CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets.
    • CSS is output from the db via a style 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.), use of `style` tag is key for targeting for `postMessage` live preview
    • Post-based storage allows for revisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. built in (ensuring that there are 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. for a plugin that wants to write a file would alleviate many concerns)
    • CSS is theme-specific in the proposal for this, with a post object for each theme that has CSS
    • Scheduling a meeting to go through these concerns and make a decision, coordination to occur in #core-customize
  • Customize Changesets (née Transactions) (@westonruter)
    • Technical Post (audience is developers who have extended the customizer significantly, as there may be impacts to any heavy customizer integrations since changesets touches some very low-level stuff in the customizer)
    • Users will be able to bookmark a customizer session since the changeset UUID will be part of the URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org
    • Theme switches will no longer result in changes being lost (no more AYS dialog)
    • a few other open questions and issues that have been noted

Components

  • Customize (@westonruter, @celloexpressions)
  • Twenty Seventeen (@davidakennedy, @melchoyce)
    • Latest theme update
    • Theme: This week, there has been a lot of testing after the initial design implementation was merged last week. One week to go and the focus is on three specific enhancements to come to a conclusion on: custom colors, SVGs for icons and more use of flexbox.
    • Multi-panel feature: a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. exist, and it’s been iterated on a lot. This is close to being ready for being considered for merge. It needs more code review and a look by other teams (accessibility for one).
    • Video headers feature: we have an mvp defined,  a new patch started and @celloexpressions will work on the Customizer part of it. This is not as far along, but could be ready by the deadline.
    • A lot of issues need to be punted or moved on. Tracking everything toward merge for Twenty Seventeen via GitHub milestone.
    • Will generate a merge proposal for the theme by Monday if not sooner. Will have brief daily check-ins/meetings for the theme until the proposal is posted.
    • @celloexpressions: visual edit icons in the customizer (#27403) are probably happening but won’t need a proposal there since the implementation is straightforward.
    • @helen: will follow up on #38114
    • 29 contributors on Twenty Seventeen
    • Team would appreciate any PR reviews on the theme, eyes on the multi-panel ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker., and testing with all kinds of devices and browsers.
    • Next steps: (1) Focus on feedback/iteration for these big enhancements: custom colors, SVGs for icons and more use of flexbox. (2) Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. necessary items into merge milestone. (3) Close as much as possible
    • Next meeting Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 1:00 PM CDT in #themereview
  • Media (@mikeschroder, @joemcgill)
  • i18n (@swissspidy)
  • Editor (@azaozz, @iseulde)
  • HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. (@johnbillion)
    • Next meeting Friday, October 14, 2016, 11:00 AM CDT in #core-httpHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands.

#4-7, #core, #dev-chat, #summary