Tonya Mork 12:54 pm on September 1, 2020
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Bug Scrub Schedule for 5.6

With 5.6 officially kicked off, time to schedule the 5.6 sessions. Bug scrubs will happen each week until the final release.

  1. 9/4/2020 17:00 UTC
  2. 9/10/2020 15:00 UTC
  3. 9/15/2020 04:00 UTC
  4. 9/24/2020 22:00 UTC
  5. 9/29/2020 04:00 UTC
  6. 10/7/2020 17:00 UTC
  7. 10/15/2020 16:00 UTC
  8. 10/19/2020 18:00 UTC
  9. 10/26/2020 18:00 UTC
  10. 10/29/2020 18:00 UTC
  11. 11/4/2020 18:00 UTC
  12. 11/9/2020 19:00 UTC
  13. 11/16/2020 19:00 UTC
  14. 11/30/2020 TBD (If Necessary)

Check this schedule often, as it will change to reflect the latest information.

What about recurring component scrubs and triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. sessions?

The above 5.6 scheduled bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrubs are separate and in addition.

For your reference, here are some of the recurring sessions:

  • Design Triage: Every Monday 16:30 UTC at #design
  • 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/ Design Triage: Every Tuesday 16:00 UTC at #design
  • AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Scrub: Every Friday 14:00 UTC at #accessibility
  • APAC-friendly Bug Scrub: Every Tuesday at 05:00 UTC at #core will continue during the cycle, alternating focus between coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and editor.

Want to lead a bug scrub?

Did you know that anyone can lead a bug scrub at anytime? Yes, you can!

How? PingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” me (@hellofromtonya) on slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. and let me know the day and time you’re considering as well as the report or tickets you want to scrub.

Planning one that’s 5.6-focused? Awesome! We’ll add it to the schedule here along with your name. You’ll get well deserved props in the weekly Dev Chat, as well as in the #props Slack channel!

Where can you find tickets to scrub? All open tickets for 5.6, in order of priority, can be found here. Tickets that haven’t seen any love in a while are in particular need. Those can be found in this query.

Need a refresher on bug scrubs? Checkout Leading Bug Scrubs in the core handbook.

Questions?

Have a question, concern, or suggestion? Want to lead a bug scrub? Please leave a comment or reach out directly to me (@hellofromtonya) on slack.

#5-6, #bug-scrub

Andrew Ozz 10:44 pm on June 29, 2020
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Updating jQuery version shipped with WordPress

This has been a long time coming; the TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #37110 is already few years old.

Following the recommendations of the jQuery team, the updating has to happen in stages:

  1. Remove jQuery Migrate 1.x. This is planned for WordPress 5.5.
  2. Update to the latest version of jQuery and add the latest jQuery Migrate. This is tentatively planned for WordPress 5.6 depending on test results. Updating to the latest jQuery UIUI User interface, version 1.12.1, is also planned for 5.6.
  3. Remove jQuery Migrate. This is tentatively planned for WordPress 5.7 or later, depending on testing.

As planned, a Test jQuery Updates pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party was released to make it easy to test different versions of jQuery, jQuery Migrate, and jQuery UI. Please install it and thoroughly test if everything works as expected, especially on the front-end, or at the settings pages of other WordPress plugins.

How to help with testing

The plugin has a settings screen found under the Plugins menu in WordPress adminadmin (and super admin). Different versions of the jQuery libraries can be selected there for testing. Please test by:

  1. Disabling jQuery Migrate, and leaving jQuery and jQuery UI at the default versions (for WordPress 5.5).
  2. Selecting jQuery 3.5.1, enabling jQuery Migrate, and selecting jQuery UI 1.12.1 (for WordPress 5.6).
Test jQuery Updates settings screen, under the Plugins menu.

Updating your code

To get ready for this jQuery update, it’s important that you update your code. The migrate plugin will assist you in identifying issues. Additionally, the jQuery Core 3.0 Upgrade Guide and 3.5 Upgrade Guide provide detailed information about what has changed. As the browser supported list is also updated, this is also a great time for you to revisit what versions of browsers are supported by your themes and plugins.

See a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.?

If you find a bug in Test jQuery Updates, or if you run into a jQuery related issue, please report it at https://github.com/WordPress/wp-jquery-update-test. If the issue is with a default script in WordPress, please open a new ticket on Trac.

Thanks @andreamiddleton, @annezazu, and @jorbin for helping with this post.

#5-5, #jquery

#dev-notes

thelmachido 7:17 pm on September 10, 2020
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Dev Chat Summary: (5.6 Week 4)

Greetings! Here’s what happened in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Wednesday, September 9, 2020, 07:00 AM GMT+2 and Wednesday, September 9, 2020, 10:00 PM GMT+2 on the agenda.

0500 core devchat

@thewebprincess led the meeting and took notes. Find the full SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. archive here.

2000 core devchat

@laurora led the chat; @thelmachido took notes. Here’s the full archive.

Both groups followed this agenda: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/09/08/dev-chat-agenda-september-9th-2020/

Announcements

We started by celebrating 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. Ogijima in Japan over the weekend! 

@thewebprincess also highlighted a post by Shinichi Nishikawa about how they set up the tech and will share the link when she finds it.

Highlighted blogblog (versus network, site) posts

Timezones and Daylight savings:

After some discussion across timezones, the two dev chats have agreed to pin meeting times to UTC and let people adjust calendars locally. If the changes mean fewer people at meetings or involved in the project, several folks noted we can also change back.

The version 5.5 release team is still looking for feedback: 

Please share your perspective on the process — especially what people and teams can do to make future releases smoother for everyone. Please comment by Saturday at 8:00 UTC.

What’s next in Gutenberg: 

@annezazu updates the community once a month on all things blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.. It’s a great way to stay informed (planning your pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party or theme roadmap?) and get involved!

A comment on the agenda post:

 @pbearne asked for feedback this ticket. @peterwilsoncc answered and will give him  design feedback.

Component maintainers

Upgrade/Install 

Will explore adding some UIUI User interface elements to manage email notifications on plugin and theme auto-updates.

Privacy 

@carike reported in: “We have been receiving a lot of feedback, for which we are very grateful. Will update tickets over the next few days with more details on the proposed application design.” 

No updates of note this week from Multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site, Options/MetaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress., Roles, Menus & Widgets, Build/Test Tools or Customize.

What if a component maintainer can’t make devchat?

After some discussion, this request from the group: Please add your updates as a comments on the Agenda post. 

Open Floor

@thewebprincess asked the people represented to call out the areas they’re focusing on. 
That morphed into a conversation about people’s desire to dig into contributing to E2E testing. At first, it looked imperative to wait for progress from the working group mentioned here – but the group decided there’s no real block to diving in now.

  • Should there be a 5.5.2? 
  •  Ever thought about being a committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component.? Here’s how you get there.
  • How can we help someone new — or even just watching from the sidelines —  find their place, or is it trial and error? See what people said in the full discussion.
  • One of those quizzes you get on social media all the time, “find your WordPress spirit animal”  led us to this tool, which the WCEU team used for contributor days. How could people use this — or a version — inside teams?

Next Dev Chat meetings

The next meetings will take place on Wednesday, September 9, 2020, 07:00 AM GMT+2 and Wednesday, September 9, 2020, 10:00 PM GMT+2 on the agenda.

 in the #core Slack channel. Please feel free to drop in with any updates or questions. If you have items to discuss but cannot make the meeting, please leave a comment on this post so that we can take them into account. 

#5-5-1, #5-5-2, #5-6, #dev-chat, #summary

Lara Schenck 3:55 pm on September 10, 2020
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CSS Chat Agenda: 10 September 2020

Note: One hour before the meeting this week, @ryelle will lead the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.! Triages are every other week at the same time, 4:00 PM EDT.

This is the agenda for the upcoming CSS meeting scheduled for Thursday, September 10, at 5:00 PM EDT.

This meeting will be held in the #core-css channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

If there’s any topic you’d like to discuss, please leave a comment below!

  • Housekeeping
  • Updates
    • CSS Audit (#49582) – Updating counts, storing data in the GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo
    • Color Scheming (#49999) – Sharing with the community
  • Open floor + CSS Link share

#agenda, #core-css

webcommsat AbhaNonStopNewsUK 1:19 pm on September 10, 2020
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Lara Schenck 5:52 pm on September 8, 2020
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CSS Chat Summary: 3 September 2020

See the full meeting transcript here on Slack. I (@notlaura) facilitated the meeting.

Housekeeping

We need someone to lead the weekly meeting on October 8 – send a message on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. to @laras126, or comment on this post if you are able to do that!

@ryelle added @here privileges for herself and @kburgoine so they can lead the bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrubs. The bug scrubs / triages will be every other week one hour before the meeting (at 4pm EDT), and @ryelle will lead the next one this Thursday, the 10th.

Updates

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Audit (#49582)

I added an issue to the CSS audit repo and corresponding comment to the ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. about storing the audit data on GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ instead of in a Google doc. @ryelle agreed this sounded like a good idea, especially deployments via Github pages, and potentially using Github action to regularly re-build the report. Another idea we talked about is a method to download a specific version of WordPress to run the audits on, so that we don’t have to worry about environment-specific artifacts (e.g. the .orig files from SVNSVN Subversion, the popular version control system (VCS) by the Apache project, used by WordPress to manage changes to its codebase. conflicts).

Color Scheming (#49999)

A big week for color scheme updates! @ryelle is close to finished with the PostCSS pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party that will replace the rogue colors with the approved coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. colors – visualized here. She opened a PR to the WordPress-develop repo that includes screenshot comparisons of the color replacements, and indicated next steps to be:

  1. Finish the transparent color handling
  2. Start the manual work of cleaning up anything that looks awkward after the processing
  3. Maybe add some way of ignoring certain colors/selectors/files

Related to the second item – there will be small issues that require manual review, for example, there is no orange in the color palette, so they have been replaces with reds, and another area where a specific light blue background was removed. We will need input from designers to validate these changes. Rather than adding issues based on screen or color for the review, we discussed having a Make post and allowing people to comment before deciding on a specific review structure.

Open Floor + CSS Link Share

@ryelle shared an enticing Tweet from someone attending Clarity Conf:

I shared the @property syntax where, in CSS only, you can declare custom properties with more details:

@property --colorPrimary {
  syntax: "<color>";
  initial-value: magenta;
  inherits: false;
}

CSS! 🔥

#core-css, #summary

Dee Teal 8:45 am on September 8, 2020
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Dev Chat Agenda: September 9th 2020


Here is the #agenda for this week’s meetings happening at: Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 0500UTC and Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 2000UTC

Please share any items you’d like to include in the comments below.

  • Announcements
  • Highlighted blogblog (versus network, site) posts
  1. Core Chat – Timezones and Daylight savings – Action Required: Decision time – in relation to Daylight Saving adjustments, are we keeping the meeting time consistent with UTC? Or changing call times to stay consistent with calendar time?
  2. WordPress 5.5 Retrospective: We want to hear from you! – Action Required: Please add your response to the retrospective form with your thoughts from the 5.5 release – deadline Saturday September 12 07:00 UTC
  3. What’s next in Gutenberg (September): Comprehensive post about where things are at with the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. editor – There may be action required of you are a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party/theme dev, or if you want to get involved.
  • Calls from component maintainers and/or focus leads
  • Open Floor

    If you have something else you want to include to the agenda, please mention it in the comments below.

The #dev-chat meetings will be held on Wednesday, 2 September 2020, 05:00UTC and Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 2000UTC. These meetings are held in the #core channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

#5-6

Paal Joachim Romdahl 7:16 am on September 8, 2020
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Editor Chat Agenda: 9 September, 2020

Facilitator and notetaker @paaljoachim.

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for 2020-09-09 14:00 UTC.

This meeting is held in the #core-editor channel in the Making WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

  • Gutenberg 8.9
  • Monthly Plan for September 2020 and key project updates. With focus on issues, what is being done and help that is needed.
    • Global Styles.
    • Navigation screen and Navigation blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience..
    • Widgets screen.
    • CustomizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s appearance settings. screen.
    • Full Site Editing.
  • Task Coordination
  • Open Floor

Even if you can’t make the meeting, you’re encouraged to share anything relevant for the discussion:

  • If you have anything to share for the Task Coordination section, please leave it as a comment on this post.
  • If you have anything to propose for the agenda or other specific items related to those listed above, please leave a comment below.
#core-editor, #core-editor-agenda
Jorge Costa 4:49 pm on September 7, 2020
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Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 2 September 2020

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 2 September 2020, 14:00 UTC held in Slack.

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/ 8.9

@jorgefilipecosta announced Gutenberb 8.9 was going to be released in some hours.

The big highlight of the release is that Widgets moved out of experiments. On the FSE front, multiple FSE blocks were implemented and are now available for testing in the FSE experience (“Site Editor”). With regards to the widgets screen, more details are shared below.

Aside from these two focuses, Gutenberg 8.9 contains some small new features, multiple bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. fixes, and some performance improvements.

Monthly plan updates

Global Styles

The PR that implements the Global styles sidebar on the edit site is now out of the draft state. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/24250. The PR allows us to have something more concrete to test the global styles mechanism and should probably be merged soon.

Besides the main global styles PR, @jorgefilipecosta said that we have proposals for font family and font-weight picking in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/24868 and https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/24978.

Navigation screen and Navigation blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience.

Regarding the navigation block task @andraganescu said:

They’re both being worked on. For the Navigation editor (screen) the goal currently is to bring it into a sort of MVP state (outlined in https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/24875 and then take the same steps that we took for the Widgets editor.
Recently the editor got drag and drop into its version of the ListView.
The Navigation block is getting updates via the work on the editor.
One thing that is a bit of a blockerblocker A bug which is so severe that it blocks a release. now is the uncertainty around the “edit in toolbar” feature suggested for the LinkControl, feature which is also present in some of the editor’s interactions.

Widgets screen

Besides the big update that widgets are going to move out of the experimental state on WordPress 8.9, @andraganescu added that call for testing post in progress, and it should soon make it on the make coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. blogblog (versus network, site).

Full Site Editing

Regarding full site editing @ntsekouras, is experimenting with the query block. Namely, adding tags, order, and some orderby support and transform multiple heading blocks to list or paragraphs.

Monthly plan preview

@annezazu shared a small preview of the monthly plan for September:

  • Global Styles & Editor focused APIs: hope is that work on editor focused APIs can be wrapped up in the month ahead.
  • WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Screen: launched out of experimental, hoping for lots of feedback, working on an updated design, and have a nice set of a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) issues to work through.
  • Navigation Screen: discussing blockers to this being moved out of experimental & working on various items including nesting, a fresh design, enabling edit links in toolbar etc.
  • Full Site Editing: focused on milestone #2.

Task coordination

@jorgefilipecosta

Shared the following update:

Last week I was involved in helping the editor side tasks of WordPress 5.5.1. I reviewed multiple global styles related PR’s and shared some insights in the discussions that were happening. And I proposed the font family and weight picking mechanism.

Next week I will continue the reviews on global styles related PR’s. I will try to take the open PR’s I have to the finish line, and I will try to have a prototype of how to use and load third-party fonts.

@youknowriad

  • Working on theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. APIs to control the editor.
  • Adding spacing controls to the group block
  • Custom CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. for the group block (depending on the available time)

@mapk

  • Finalized Widget Screen design iterations.
  • Digging into Query block.
  • Reviewed and helped iterate on text-only topbar.

@itsjonq

@itsjonq shared the following update:

I’m continuing to work on the G2 Components project. Currently focusing on creating (also supporting the creation) of larger pieces.
One of the ways this is manifesting is through prototyping more complete UIs/experience (e.g. Navigation, and soon FSE/Global styles).
Also exploring how G2 components could be used in WP-Adminadmin (and super admin). Another focus to evaluate potential integration into Gutenberg (via `@wordpress/components`).
One of the results from this is splitting parts from the core system so that smaller chunks can be migrated (e.g. Style system)I’ve continued to host Zoom session calls + blog G2 components updates on the blog:
https://g2components.wordpress.com/Also updating the documentation as I go:
https://g2-components.com/As always, open to feedback + suggestions! From UIUI User interface designs to workflows, to documentation, etc…
I’ve received a few already, which have been lovely.

@michaelarestad

@nosolosw

Shared the following update on the agenda:

  • This week: I’ve made progress on adding an initial prototype for the global styles sidebar in the Site Editor. Just today the PR moved from draft state to open for reviews. It still needs some tweaks, but, fundamentally, it’s a candidate for merging. I’ve also been helping here and there with feedback and reviews.
  • Next week: keep pushing this work forward.

Open floor

Justify use of “Needs… Feedback”

@isabel_brison wrote on the agenda post:

I’m wondering if we should try/encourage adding comments to justify use of “Needs… Feedback” labels in Gutenberg, as it’s not always obvious which aspect of the issue/PR needs feedback. It would help if the person adding the label elaborated a little on where feedback would be useful.

@jorgefilipecosta said it makes sense that when someone uses a feedback label to also include a comment saying exactly what feedback is needed. As sometimes, the discussions get big passed by many topics, and it is not easy to know what actionable feedback is needed.

@youknowriad said that adding process over process is just raising the bar for contribution. And added that it’s also fine to ask “Why did you add the Needs thing feedback”?

@mapk referred he noticed that many designers do list out the feedback they’re looking for when a design is proposed. @jorgefilipecosta said that we should probably expand that practice to non-design PR’s.

#block-editor, #chats, #core-editor, #core-editor-summary, #gutenberg, #meeting-notes

Timothy Jacobs 4:20 pm on September 7, 2020
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REST API Meeting Agenda for September 10

After a hiatus following the release of WordPress 5.5, the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. weekly component chat will occur this week at September 10, 2020 18:00 UTC in the #core-restapi SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. channel.

Agenda Items:

  • Batch Requests
  • Menus
  • Widgets
  • 5.6 Priorities
  • Open Floor

All agenda items are welcome, from all teams and contributors; please post them as comments below or let us know by joining the meeting.

#agenda, #rest-api

Jake Spurlock 5:53 pm on September 4, 2020  

WordPress 5.5 Retrospective: We want to hear from you!

While the release team is wrapping up the 5.5 processes, we wanted to reach out to the wider community for perspectives on the process and what could be done in the future to make releases smoother for everyone. 

If you are a WordPress user, developer, writer, content manager, agency, etc., please share comments here on what went well with the release, what went poorly, and what could be improved for future releases of WordPress. We’ll keep the comments on this post open indefinitely, but only capture the comments in the form through Friday, September 11th.

“Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.”

–Norm Kerth, Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Review

Comments can be publicly shared directly on this post, or as part of this form. All responses will be cataloged and then once this process has been completed, the results will be shared in a new post here on make/coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. 

Comment now
annezazu 2:52 pm on September 3, 2020
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What’s next in Gutenberg? (September)

This is a monthly update containing the high-level items that 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/ contributors are focusing on for September. Please join us in our efforts and let us know in the comments if anything is blocking you from doing so. 

How to follow along with Gutenberg: 

Here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with Gutenberg and the Full Site Editing project. There is also an index page of Gutenberg development related posts and a new Site Editing Milestone overview issue that breaks down the upcoming work into more concrete next steps. 

Global Styles & Editor focused APIs

Global Styles refers to the system that defines and manages global aesthetics allowing overall site styles, theme styles, and blocks to work well together. Currently, the hope is that work on editor focused APIs can be wrapped up in the month ahead if all goes well. Some of this work will include the following:

Follow along:

You can follow the progress for this overall system in this overview issue. For more recent and immediate next steps, you can follow this issue describing the current state of work. 

WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user. Screen

After months of work, this new screen has been launched out of experiments in the latest Gutenberg 8.9 release. This should allow for plenty of time for feedback before the 5.6 release. With blocks firmly paving the way for the future, this work on the widget screen is meant to help modernize the experience outside of just site editing, ease adoption for everyone, and upgrade what’s currently possible by enabling third party extensibility. This vision can’t be accomplished without feedback so please test and share any bugs or enhancements on GitHub. Work this month will include the following along with the feedback received from users: 

Follow along:

You can follow the progress of this project on this project board.

Full Site Editing

As with the prior months, work on this major focus for phase 2 is ongoing and is expected to continue iterating over the next months. Keep in mind that much of this work relates to other areas like Global Styles & Editor Focused APIs! With that in mind, work this month will mainly focus on the following based on the Milestone 2 – Site Editor Navigation. Note that timing for this work will  likely need to be adjusted depending on progress made meaning this work might start in September but continue going forward.

  • Group document settings in the headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes.. 
  • Indicate current template and template part when in site editor.
  • Move templates and page navigation into the main W sidebarSidebar A sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme..
  • Allow browsing all templates and parts. 
  • Incorporate “Add New Page” Flow into “Add Template”.
  • Begin exploring missing functionality for the query blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. as part of milestone 5. 

We’re watching the Theme Experiments repo as well to see how themers are attempting to build block-based themes. Please continue to share there and know we appreciate it!

Follow along:

You can follow the progress of this project on this project board. To help break down this work more, a new overview issue with key milestones for site editing was also created. For each major milestone, there are related issues for each milestone that are recommended to follow if you want a more granular look at each next step (example from Site Editor Navigation).

As a reminder, if you’re interested in being a part of testing Full Site Editing, check out the experimental outreach program to learn more. 

Navigation Screen

Similar to the Widget Screen, efforts have begun to launch this new screen to the world in order to gather more feedback. Right now, this effort has a few blockers but, if you’re able to, testing this screen and reporting feedback would be a huge help (Install Gutenberg and head to Gutenberg > Experiments to enable this screen). The aim is that this new screen will help expand what’s possible with menus while bringing block functionality to yet another part of WordPress in order to allow for more adoption and to offer a more modern experience.  

Follow along:

You can follow the progress of this project on this project board, review the overview issues (Block Navigation, Navigation Screen) & join the weekly coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. chat.

Areas to be aware of:

Block & PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party Developers

Since the block directory is still a new feature in the WordPress world, the following includes the prior links once more along with two additional issues to chime in on: 

Theme Developers

Review the latest Gutenberg Themes roundup and, in particular, check out @tomjin’s PHP theme template compatibility proposal as it relates to Full Site Editing. Please chime in with your thoughts! Outside of this proposal, here are two other items that might be of interest:  

Ways to Get Involved:

While the above items are our focuses, don’t forget that you can always help with triage, needs testing issues, good first issues and reviewing PRs. Focusing efforts around Widgets and Navigation in particular this month would be very helpful as both screens are on their way to no longer being experimental features. 

If there’s anything we can do to make contributing easier, let us know in the comments or in #core-editor chats. While we can’t promise to fix everything, we’d appreciate being aware of any blockers.

Meetings to join:

While you can view all meetings here, here are specific meetings that touch on Gutenberg development to join depending on your interest and availability. Remember that you need a WordPress.org slack account to participate: 

  • Core Editor weekly meeting on Wednesdays @ 14:00 UTC in #core-editor focused on all things Gutenberg. 
  • AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) weekly meeting on Fridays @ 15:00 UTC in #accessibility focused on wrangling accessibility related work across Core and the block based editor.
  • Navigation Sync weekly meeting on Wednesdays @ 07:00 UTC in #core focused on triaging and discussing Navigation screen work. 
  • Block Based Themes meeting twice monthly on Wednesday @ 16:00 UTC in #themereview focused on preparing for Full Site Editing. 

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