Team Chat Agenda: 12th March 2025

Here is the agenda for the upcoming Test Team Chat scheduled for 12 March 2025 at 16:00 UTC, which is held in the #core-test Slack channel. Lurkers welcome!

Agenda

• Attendance
• Note-taker and facilitator selection for the next meeting
  • This week’s facilitator is – @krupajnanda
  • This week’s note-taker is – Looking for a volunteer
• Announcements
  • Call for testing post is out. Please help test WordPress 6.8
  • Beta 2 release of WordPress 6.8 is now available.
  • The 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. 3 release of WordPress 6.8 is scheduled for next Tuesday, March 18th. Please check the detailed overview of the release schedule for WordPress 6.8. Join the Release Party in #core to test and provide the feedback!
  • 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/ 20.4 was released on Wednesday, March 5th. Checkout the milestone for the issues those were part of 20.4 release.
• 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.
• Focal Group Updates
  • We are in 6.8 release cycle and only 2 few weeks away from our first RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge. release.
  • Check out what to expect in WordPress 6.8 release: Roadmap to 6.8
• Questions/Blockers
• Call for testers/visibility:
  • Checkout the Bug Scrub Schedule for WordPress 6.8
  • Help test WordPress 6.8 and share your feedback. WordPress 6.8 is going to be released on April 15, 2025
  • Gutenberg 20.5 is scheduled for release on Wednesday, March 19th. This will be the first version of Gutenberg to be merged into WordPress 6.9.
• Open Floor
• Got a topic? Add in comments below, or bring it up live during the chat.

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