Overview
- Core DevChat held on Aug 23rd.
- Editor chat held on Aug 23rd.
- New Contributor meeting held on Aug 23rd.
- Two Weeks in Core – between Aug 21st and Sep 4th:
- 75 commits
- 150 contributors
- 25 new contributors
- 129 tickets created
- 13 tickets reopened
- 117 tickets closed
- WCUS Contributor Day happened in Make/Core
#corechannel on Aug 24th.
Releases
- 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/ releases:
- 6.3 minor releases:
- 🏁 6.3.1 RC1 released on Aug 23rd (release party).
- Bug Scrub: held on Aug 22nd.
- Code Activity:
- 9 Core commits (+9 from last week).
- 7 Trac tickets closed (+7 from last week).
- 0 commits into Gutenberg’s wp/6.3 branch (-10 from last week).
- 6.4 major release:
- Current development phase: Early alpha.
- Bug Scrub: held on Aug 22nd.
- Code Activity:
- 49 Core commits (+24 from last week).
- 17 Trac tickets closed (+11 from last week).
- 53 commits into Gutenberg’s wp/6.4 branch (+63 from last week).
- 97 commits into TT4 repository.
Highlights:
- The Roadmap to 6.4 is now available.
- Preparing for Contributor Day at WCUS 2023
- Fields API Progress Summary: WCUS Contributor Day 2023.
- What’s new for Navigation in WordPress 6.2 and 6.3.
- Hallway Hangout: Improving accessibility in the Site Editor – announced a hangout for Sep 14th.
- WordPressCS 3.0.0 is now available.
Community Summit Discussion Notes of interest to the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Team:
- Community Summit Discussion Notes: Addressing backwards compatibility in Gutenberg.
- Community Summit Discussion Notes: Unifying development tooling for contribution.
- Community Summit Discussion Notes: What is the criteria for delaying the upgrade of foundational tech, and what triggers reconsideration?
- Community Summit Discussion Notes: Aligning processes and contributions between WordPress Core and Gutenberg.