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Joe McGill 2:53 pm on August 4, 2017
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Media meeting recap – Aug 3, 2017

Overview

This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took place in #core-media on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/., on Thursday, Aug 3 at 18:00 UTC. The purpose of these meetings are to move priority tasks forward, provide feedback on issues of interest, and review media focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

Attendees:
@joemcgill, @mikeschroder, @adamsilverstein, @desrosj, @karmatosed, @blobfolio, @flixos90, @paaljoachim.

Transcript: Read on Slack

Media + GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/

@karmatosed shared the need for more help on media related tickets in the Gutenberg project. She’s prioritized high priority items, which can be viewed in this report. We discussed a few specific issues:

WordPress 4.9 Release

Now that the 4.9 release schedule is announced, we can better plan priorities for the release. While helping Gutenberg is certainly a high priority, we plan to review tickets to add to the milestone during the meeting next week.

Bug Scrubs + Call for volunteers

Over the past few weeks, @desrosj has run separate bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrubs focussed on unanswered tickets for the Media component. The next media scrub is planned for Thursday, Aug 10 at 16:00 UTC. We’d like to alternate times of these extra scrubs so it’s easier for people in different timezones to participate. If you’re interested in contributing, look out for a survey in the #core-media room to give feedback on times that work for you for bug scrubs.

We also are looking for volunteers who are willing to help type up recap notes from these scrubs and our weekly meetings, which is a great way to get involved and learn more about the Media component. If you’re interested in helping with any of these efforts, please contact @desrosj or @joemcgill on Slack.

#media, #weekly-update

Joe McGill 12:49 am on March 4, 2017
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Media Weekly Meeting Recap (March 2, 2017)

This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took place in #core-media on Slack, on March 2, 2017 19:00 UTC. The purpose of these meetings are to move priority tasks forward, provide feedback on issues of interest, and review media focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

Attendees: @joemcgill, @sergeybiryukov, @blobfolio, @adamsilverstein, @mikeschroder, @melchoyce, @karmatosed, @desrosj, @azaozz.

Prioritizing 4.8 tickets

With all Media tickets for 4.7.3 clear, we spent this meeting looking forward at our priorities for 4.8, which already included 12 tickets at the time of the meeting. With the focus for 4.8 being on the editor, customization, and the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/., we discussed additional tickets that contribute to the goals of those projects or which may prepare for future enhancements in those areas. Here are a list of tickets mentioned during the meeting:

  • #39647: Make media upload “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. error.” more user-helpful
  • #15311 and #21295: Which are related to the previous ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker., in that decoupling the intermediate size generation from the upload process will probably be necessary.
  • #36191, #36442, and #21455: all relate to improving responsive/retina image support in 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..
  • #39993, #39994, and #39995: Splitting the media widget project into three separate widgets for image, video, and audio. @melchoyce mentioned that image is the priority.
  • #36581: Customizer 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. Image Control should extend the cropped image control
  • #21819: Use an image size for custom headers instead of duplicating an attachment
  • #37840: Optimize full size images
  • #24251: Reconsider SVG inclusion to `get_allowed_mime_types` – @blobfolio and @enshrined have renewed interest in working on this. If you’re interested, take a look at this repo and provide testing/feedback.
  • #39963: MIME Alias Handling
  • #39883: Code hooking on `image_downsize` can no longer assume the file is an image (related: #39980). This one is a priority for the next 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..

In the upcoming weeks, we plan to prioritize these and assign ownership to contributors in order to help people focus efforts and to help new contributors know where to get involved. This list is large, so if you’re interested in helping out, please feel free to jump in on the tickets themselves, 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.” in #core-media, or leave a comment below.

If there is something you feel should be prioritized that is not included on this list or already on the 4.8 milestone, please leave a comment on this post or bring it up in the #core-media channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. As always, important 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 will be considered as they are presented.

Next Meeting

Due to conference travel, we’ll be skipping next week’s meeting, with the next one scheduled for March 16, 2017 19:00 UTC.

#core-media, #media, #weekly-update

Kira Schroder 2:03 am on February 19, 2017
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Media Weekly Meeting Recap (Feb 17, 2017)

This post is a summary of the latest weekly Media component meeting, which took place in #core-media on Slack, on February 17, 2017 2000 UTC. The purpose of these meetings are to move priority tasks forward, provide feedback on issues of interest, and review media focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

Attendees: @joemcgill, @sergeybiryukov, @dnavarrojr, @adamsilverstein, @pputzer, @mikeschroder, @desrosj, @gitlost.

Meeting Time Change

The group decided to move the weekly meeting to Thursdays at 1900 UTC, which is more convenient for participants.

Tickets discussed

We spent this meeting doing a 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 for tickets on the 4.7.3 milestone.
Start: [https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/core-media/p1487361876001149]

  • #39883 image_downsize assumption changes: Added to 4.7.3 milestone for prioritized discussion.
  • #39774: PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher 7.1 warning during upload of file with the same name: 
Approved for merge from 4.8 to 4.7.3. @sergeybiryukov to handle it.
  • #37140: Reset of rotation orientation when image is rotated:
 @mikeschroder tested, found fix for issue in tests. Reached out to @sanchothefat re: whether the current number of images being tested can be reduced to not slow down the tests. Otherwise, this looks ready.
  • #39516: Media grid upload errors display below the grid:
 Still needs testing. @joemcgill would appreciate additional eyes here.
  • #39550/#39552: Some Non-image files fail to upload after 4.7.1: 
@joemcgill to write up two possible solutions for the problem to address image files not properly validated with GD so that we can profile appropriately. There are performance concerns around adding ⁠⁠⁠⁠finfo_file() to all files uploaded.
  • #39875: PDF previews overwrite existing images with the same name:
 Worked through this in chat. @gitlost uploaded one approach to the ticket, with @desroj writing up another one based on our conversation in the meeting. Decision being that the filename saves should be handled in the same way that saves happen in the Media Gallery’s image editor. The problem is in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/image.php#L254, with pre-existing method in https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-admin/includes/image-edit.php#L779.

Our next meeting is scheduled at the new day/time of February 23, 2017 at 1900 UTC.

#media, #weekly-update

Kira Schroder 1:53 pm on September 15, 2016
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Media Weekly Update (September 9)

This post summarizes the most recent media meeting, which takes places weekly in #core-images on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

Our next meeting is Friday, September 16 at 19:00 UTC and the agenda for these meetings include moving priority tasks forward, providing feedback on issues of interest, and reviewing media focused tickets on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..

It was brought up that the current meeting time is not great for @swissspidy or @flixos90, and they’d prefer to meet earlier, which we would start next week at Friday, September 23 at 17:00 UTC or alternatively on Thursday, September 22 at 17:00 UTC. Please sound off in the comments as to whether you’d be able to make either of the above to help decide on whether the meeting time will change.

Agenda for the next meeting

This week, we will check in on the priority projects for the 4.7 release. If you have specific tickets that you’d like to have discussed, please leave a comment on this post or reach out on Slack in the #core-images channel.

Recap of the last meeting

Our last meeting was Friday, September 9. You can read the conversation log in #core-images on Slack.

Attendees: @mikeschroder, @markoheijnen, @flixos90, @adamsilverstein, @swissspidy, @paaljoachim, and @achbed.

Media library organization improvements

  • @joemcgill and @swissspidy are working on adding the ability to search the media library by filename (#22744).
  • Following the meeting, @joemcgill posted some great notes on his thoughts regarding process for forming a roadmap for these improvements. You can read them on Slack.
  • Separately, we would like to engage members of the design team in initial conversations about what UIUI User interface/UXUX User experience improvements can be made to the media library to make it easier for people to organize and find their media. It’s likely that any UI changes in 4.7 would be relatively light, but we want to begin planning now and focus work during this release on getting as much infrastructure in place as we can.

Improved full size image optimizations (#37840)

Good conversation around ways to solve or work around the issue of increased CPU time/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. failures for image resizing.

  • Proposed closing #36534, and creating tickets from the issues found. It was great for gathering information, but has become a dropbox for all HTTP Error related tickets.
  • This is related closely to the full size image task because we want to avoid making the timeout issue worse when adding another resize.
  • In addition to running additional profiling to find what’s now taking the most time, one thing @joemcgill and @mikeschroder discussed in particular is a “try again” or “continue” button as a first jump into making it easier to recover when these failures happen. At the moment, this isn’t a thing because WP only saves metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. after creating all sizes is completed successfully, and also because the code doesn’t support creating “the sizes that are left” (related: #15311).
  • @mikeschroder would also like to see investigation into making the HTTP Error more specific, but this could be part of the above project or solved without users needing to know the details, when WP can recover by itself.

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Media 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. (#32417)

No Update. Reached out to @designsimply and @fab1en.

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. fixes

No Update. Reached out to @johnbillion to see what plans are for 4.7.

PDF Thumbnails (#31050)

No time last week due to travel. @markoheijnen to send update this week.

Accents in attachment filenames should be sanitized (#22363)

@gitlost provided great feedback on the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. (thanks!), but it looks like it’s going to need additional work before an initial commit.
@mikeschroder looking into this with @markoheijnen at WC Tokyo this week.

#4-7, #media, #weekly-update

Kat Hagan 1:47 pm on September 23, 2013
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Post By Email: OPW is over!

I can hardly believe it, but my summer internship is drawing to a close.

This week, I released version 1.0.4 of the Post By Email 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, comprised of minor bugfixes, tests, and documentation as I prepped the project for its evaluation phase.  I’ve added quite a bit of info to the readme page, including better installation and configuration instructions.

Those of you following along on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. may have noticed that I’ve kind of run out of tasks.  🙂

Today is the official end of the OPW and GSoC programs, so I’ll be taking a short break from development work during the evaluation period.  But this isn’t goodbye!  I definitely plan to stick around and continue working on and supporting this project in the future — so keep those 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. reports coming!

I do want to take a second to thank all of you for being here for me as I learned the ins and outs of WordPress this summer.  I feel really good about where this project landed, and I know it’s because I had so many amazing resources every step of the way.  So, to everyone who left me comments, answered my questions on IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. or Twitter, reviewed my code, tested, reported bugs, offered suggestions, spoke at WCSF, or even just edited a Codex page or wrote a quick tutorial now and then: THANK YOU.  It really made the difference in those moments when I felt frustrated or overwhelmed.

I don’t know exactly what the future holds, but I do know that I love being a part of WordPress, and I’m excited to continue working with y’all.  Let’s keep in touch.  🙂

#post-by-email, #weekly-update

Alex 10:02 pm on September 17, 2013
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Code Revisions: Last Week

The code revisions plugin reached version 0.95 – just leaving enough space for some final readme updates and hopefully no more bugfixes (because of no more bugs).

But still, some final important enhancements got into this update. Mainly to ensure that all related revision data is removed when a package (theme or 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) is uninstalled (#395).

Last week now is about creating a screencast for you, the community and wrap up the documentation.

#code-revisions, #weekly-update

Kat Hagan 8:44 am on September 6, 2013
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Post By Email Plugin: Version 1.0 is live!

I just released version 1.0 of the Post By Email 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, which includes the following updates:

  • Support for IMAP and SSLSSL Secure Sockets Layer. Provides a secure means of sending data over the internet. Used for authenticated and private actions. connections
  • Option to “mark as read” instead of deleting messages after posting them (IMAP only)
  • Only fetch unread messages (IMAP only)
  • Added contextual help to the adminadmin (and super admin) panel
  • Support for HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers.-formatted emails
  • Under the hood: refactoring, bugfixes, properly checking nonce for AJAX requests, etc.

I also made some changes to the 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. and added it to the corresponding Trac ticket for community review.

Please do install and test this version and let me know how it goes!

This plugin is in 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.; the usual caveats apply.  Please be sure to back up your data and/or run this against a test email account.

As always, you can download the plugin from the official repository or from the Github mirror.

#post-by-email, #weekly-update

Kat Hagan 7:27 am on August 30, 2013
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Post By Email weekly update

This week, I finally released the Post By Email 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 into the official repository, which inspired me to do a lot of incidental cleanup (readme files, test instructions, etc.).

I finished updating the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. deprecation 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. for 3.7 — it’s in the plugin repo and will be submitted back to TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. once my mentors get a chance to review it.  (Comments and feedback welcome!)

I also powered through the remaining infrastructure tasks.  The latest version is 0.9.9 (look how close that is to 1.0!  SO CLOSE) and includes the following:

  • Improved error and status logging
  • Scheduled mail checks via wp_cron
  • Prettified settings page (with stuff like consistent date/time display)
  • Autoloading of Horde library files (HT to ryanmccue for the example)

If you happen to have access to an unsecured POP3 mail server and want to test this and see what breaks, I’d love to hear about it.  (Be sure to patch Core with the deprecation patch first to avoid weird behavior.)

The 1.0 release will include IMAP and SSLSSL Secure Sockets Layer. Provides a secure means of sending data over the internet. Used for authenticated and private actions., at which point I will start requesting 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. testers in earnest.

I just spent the last few hours tracking down a 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. in my clear_log function, which turned out to be caused by the Settings 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. validation function being triggered when an AJAX function (called from the settings page, but not with a form submit) called update_option.  I worked around that, but haven’t yet figured out why it’s happening at all — any insights would be appreciated.

#post-by-email, #weekly-update

Alex 11:49 pm on August 27, 2013
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Code Revisions: Week 10

First double-digit week. Most notable change this week: Code 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. is now available in the plugin repository. 0.8 finally brings a uninstall automatism, fixes some bugs (#335, #351)  and cleans the code up (#325). The ticket list is actually getting quite short by now with primarily aesthetic stuff being left over.

So I hope to get some people to test it now it’s in the repository. Maybe this will get me some more feedback to address in the weeks to come.

#code-revisions, #weekly-update

Kat Hagan 5:51 am on August 26, 2013
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Post By Email: Roadmap for the final stretch

I met with my mentors this past week to hash out the spec for the final iteration of the Post By Email 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.  It can be found here; I’m updating it as I finish tasks, as well as tracking them in the GSoC Trac.

This week, I tested under PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 5.6.20 or higher 5.2 and made a few small changes to the Horde library files to support both 5.2 and 5.3 (the Horde framework requires a minimum of 5.3).  I also refactored the adminadmin (and super admin)-specific methods (adding menus and so on) into their own class, which is loaded only if is_admin().

Of the original feature list, we’ve decided that supporting multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site is currently out of scope (though it may well work anyhow — it’s globally disabled in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. for a multisite install, but I can’t think of any reason to restrict it for the plugin).  Attachments and comment reply via email are on the “nice to have” list, meaning I might not get to them (at least, not before the official internship period ends).

#post-by-email, #roadmaps, #weekly-update