Core Team Update – January 29, 2024 – Team Updates

Overview

2024 Team Rep nominations: no accepted or new nominations.
DevChat meeting held on Jan 24th (2nd week of the new format experiment).
- The agenda with post highlights and updates from next releases and 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/.
- The summary.
New Contributors meeting held on Jan 24th.

CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. (TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. and svn):
- 51 commits (+14 from last week).
- 51 new tickets opened (-8 from last week).
- 86 tickets closed (+27 from last week).
- A Week in Core – January 29, 2024
  - 64 contributors.
  - 2 new contributors.
  - 12 committers committed.
Gutenberg:
- 156 commits to trunk (+46 from last week).
- 90 new issues opened (+18 from last week).
- 61 issues closed (+21 from last week).

Gutenberg releases:
- 🏁 17.6.0 RC2 released on Jan 25th.
- 🏁 17.6.0 RC1 released on Jan 24th.
- 🏁 17.5.2 released on Jan 24th.
- 🏁 17.5.1 released on Jan 22nd.
6.4 minor releases:
- Bug scrubs: none this week.
- 6.4.3:
  - 🏁 6.4.3 RC1 released on Jan 25th.
  - 0 open Trac tickets (-5 from last week).
  - 5 commits to Core’s 6.4 branch (-1 from last week).
  - 0 commits to Gutenberg’s wp/6.4 branch (no change from last week).
6.5 major release is underway:
- Current development phase: Alpha.
- Bug scrubs: none this week.
- Core Trac:
  - 45 commits (+14 from last week).
  - 163 open tickets (-85 from last week):
    - 109 defects / bugs.
    - 54 enhancements, feature requests, and blessed tasks.
  - 6 early tickets (-2 from last week).
- Gutenberg:
  - 0 commits to Gutenberg’s wp/6.5 branch (branch does not yet exist).
  - Editor tasks board:
    - 154 open tasks (+30 from last week).
    - 42 done tasks (+4 from last week).
    - 6 punted tasks (+3 from last week).