Overview
- Core DevChat held on Sep 27th.
- Editor chat held on Sep 27th.
- Four weeks in Core – between Sept 4th and Oct 9th:
- 269 commits
- 337 contributors
- 295 tickets created
- 43 tickets reopened
- 277 tickets closed
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:
- Bug Scrub: 6.3.2 scrub held on Sep 27th.
- Code Activity:
- 2 Core commits (+1 from last week).
- 1 Trac ticket closed (+1 from last week).
- 0 commits into Gutenberg’s wp/6.3 branch (no change from last week).
- 6.4 major release:
- Current development phase: 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..
- 🏁 Beta 1 released on Sep 26th.
- Bug Scrub: held on Sep 25th, Sep 27th and Sep 28th.
- Code Activity:
- 78 Core commits (+11 from last week).
- 28 Trac tickets closed (-8 from last week).
- 21 commits into Gutenberg’s wp/6.4 branch (-73 from last week).
- 45 commits into TT4 repository (-164 from last week).
Highlights:
- There was a discussion during DevChat about why Gutenberg 16.7 landing in WordPress 6.4, though it was not released until the day after 6.4 Beta 1 shipped.
- Following Beta 1 starting late, discussed a possible commit freeze experiment to help release parties start on time. Will try next week.