General announcements
Our next support workshop has been announced!
Scaling Support: Dip the Data Bucket Every Day – Workshop on January 22, 2018
WordPress 4.9
4.9.1 is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday November 28th, with RC1 landing on Monday the 27th. These are tentative dates, and things may change. The 4.9.1 release will focus on the 3 major issues discovered so far affecting users:
- Broken features due to MediaElements.js trying to validate WordPress locales
- Editing themes/plugins when using IIS
- Caching of theme files
There will likely be a 4.9.2 to resolve other issues that may arise and are not as pressing.
Checking with international liaisons
The Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Italian and German liaisons stopped by to let us know things are going well. The Swedes have had an influx of both questions seekers as well as providers of late. In Italy they had 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. Milano, and in Germany we saw WordCamp Cologne with new contributors from their contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/.!
Read the meeting transcript in the Slack archives. (A Slack account is required)