Core Team Update – March 25, 2024 – Team Updates

Overview

Data is from March 17 – March 23.

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):
- 27 commits (-26 from previous week)
- 40 new tickets opened (-11 from previous week)
- 57 tickets closed (+2 from previous week)
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/:
- 110 commits to trunk (+14 from previous week)
- 81 new issues opened (+0 from previous week)
- 187 issues closed (+121 from previous week – the high number is a reflection of the efforts from cleaning up the repo. More info in this thread)

Gutenberg releases:
- 🏁 17.9.0 was released on March 12.
- 🏁 18.0.0 RC1 was released on March 21.
6.5 major release is underway:
- Current development phase: RCRelease Candidate A beta version of software with the potential to be a final product, which is ready to release unless significant bugs emerge..
- Bug scrubs: none scheduled this week. The last official one was run on Feb 27.
- Core Trac:
  - 18 commits (-11 from previous week)
  - 6 open tickets:
    - 2 defects / bugs
    - 4 enhancements, feature requests, and blessed tasks
  - 0 early tickets (no change from last week)
- Gutenberg:
  - 12 commits to Gutenberg’s wp/6.5 branch
  - Editor tasks board:
    - 8 open tasks
    - 248 done tasks
    - 2 punted tasks

Props to @mikachan for reviewing.