Test Chat Summary: 26 March 2024

On Tuesday, 26 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30, <test-chat> started in #core-test facilitated by @webtechpooja. The agenda can be found here.

Attendees: @webtechpooja, @ankit-k-gupta, @huzaifaalmesbah, @mujuonly, @krupajnanda, @sumitbagthariya16, @hage, @voboghure, @freewebmentor, @devmuhib

1. Looking for volunteer

• Next meeting Note Taker – @krupajnanda
• Next meeting facilitator – looking for volunteer

2. Announcements 📣

• WordPress 6.5 release was delayed 1 week to accommodate the new Font library feature.
• WordPress 6.5 Release Day Process
  • RC4 will be released on Thursday, March 28
  • 6.5 will now be released on April 2, 2024. A dry run will start 24 hours prior to the scheduled release.

3. Test Team Announcements

• Week in Test Post: Wondering where you can contribute and learn? The Test Team’s got you covered.
• Test Team Update: Metrics for overall team progress.
• Gutenberg 18.0 RC 2 is now available for testing

4. Focal Group Updates

• Test Team Profile Badge – Your Feedback Needed! – We are working on the criteria for getting a test badge. We will soon add this to our handbook!
• Use a spider to crawl the test website. @nagpai worked on a draft of this at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Asia. We will add it to our handbook.

5. Call for testers/visibility:

• Understanding and Testing Font Library Feature with block editor theme – Thank you @Krupa for working on preparing a detailed guide to test this feature.
• Other resources that will help you test the upcoming WP 6.5 version.
  • Help test WordPress 6.5, which is going to be released on April 2, 2024, please help test.
  • Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
  • Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5
• 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/ 18.0 is scheduled for release on March 27 and will include these issues.

6. Open Floor

Nothing discussed

Next Meeting 🗓

The next scheduled meeting is on Tuesday, 9 April 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30 for <test-triage> in #core-test.

#meeting-notes