Team Chat Agenda: 26th March 2025

Here is the agenda for the upcoming Test Team Chat scheduled for Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 05:00 PM GMT+1, which will be held in the #core-test Slack channel. Lurkers welcome!

Agenda

1. Attendance

2. Note-taker and facilitator selection for the next meeting

• This week’s event will be cohosted between @krupajnanda and @SirLouen
• This week’s note-taker is @SirLouen

3. Announcements

• Call for testing post is out. Please help test WordPress 6.8
• RC1 release of WordPress 6.8 is now available.
• The RC2 release of WordPress 6.8 is scheduled for next Tuesday, April 1st. 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/ 20.5 was released on Thursday, March 20th. Checkout the milestone for the issues, those were part of the 20.5 release.

4. 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.

5. Focal Group Updates

• We are in 6.8 release cycle and only 3 weeks away or the final release.
• Check out what to expect in WordPress 6.8 release: Roadmap to 6.8 and check all the policies that are in place for 6.8 Candidate Phase

6. Questions/Blockers

7. 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 will be released on April 15, 2025
• Gutenberg 20.6 is scheduled for release on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. Checkout the milestone for Gutenberg 20.6

8. Open Floor

• Got a topic? Add in comments below, or mention it live during the chat.

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• Can’t make the meeting, but have a question for the Test Team?

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