Lara Schenck 7:53 pm on December 17, 2020
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CSS Chat Agenda: 17 December 2020

Note: 1 hour before the meeting this week, @sabernhardt will lead the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. 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. triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors.!

This is the agenda for the upcoming CSS meeting scheduled for Thursday, December 17, at 10:00 PM UTC. 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)
    • Color Scheming (#49999) – Visual Regressionregression A software bug that breaks or degrades something that previously worked. Regressions are often treated as critical bugs or blockers. Recent regressions may be given higher priorities. A "3.6 regression" would be a bug in 3.6 that worked as intended in 3.5. Testing (#49606)
  • Open floor + CSS link share
#agenda, #core-css
Dee Teal 3:32 am on December 17, 2020
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Dev Chat Summary Dec 16th 2020

Hello! Here’s what happened in the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. dev chat on Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 05:00 UTC, and Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 20:00 UTC. Both chats followed this agenda.

05:00 UTC core dev chat
@thewebprincess facilitated the meeting and took notes. Find the full Slack archive here.

20:00 UTC core dev chat

@laurora facilitated the meeting and @thelmachido took notes. Find the full Slack archive here.

Announcements

Reminder – State of the Word is today. Set your alarm for the time Thursday, Dec 17th, 2020 at 1600 UTC so you don’t miss it!!

The 5.6 retrospective has started! We’d love as many of you as possible to share your feedback with us via the form linked in this post

The Full Site Editing Outreach program is officially underway. It will start with the release of 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/ 9.6 around December 23rd with plenty of time to be involved. If interested in joining the fun, please head on over to #fse-outreach-experiment. There is a comprehensive status update on Site Editing, view the post from Matias.

@abhanonstopnewsuk would like to inform us that the questions and answers on the release have had some updates thanks to a number of comments from user experience, to further help non-technical users. These updates will be posted 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/.

Highlighted Posts

Component maintainers and focus leads

Build/Test Tools
Work has continued on GitHub Actions in this ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. #50401. There are also 3 relevant commits to take note of. r49781 Disable GitHub Action workflow runs triggered on push for forks and mirrors. r49782  Use NodeJS 14 in GitHub Action workflows. r49783  Enable reporting of results to WordPress.org

Site Health
A small ticket for 5.6.1 came in today, so it’s looking manageable

@clorith pointed out that jQuery updates got flagged early

Comments Component
@imath updated the patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. on this ticket #33717, feedbacks welcome

@flixos90 is planning to commit iframeiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is used inside a webpage to load another HTML document and render it. This HTML document may also contain JavaScript and/or CSS which is loaded at the time when iframe tag is parsed by the user’s browser. lazy-loading today #50756

Upgrade and Install
There is a plan to have error stats for 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 updates failures sent to dotorg #51928 in 5.7

Open Floor

  • @iandunn would like to get some broader feedback on #51966 – please review and leave comments on tracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress..
  • A question was raised during chat, does a theme upgrade require being tied to a core upgrade?. The issue was raised because of this ticket #52040 @audrasjb said that this issue can be fixed in a TT1 release because a theme upgrade doesn’t need to be tied to a core upgrade. You can follow the full conversation here.
  • Learn WordPress was launched yesterday and a big cross teams effort including contributors from community, training, marketing, polyglots, design, 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., core and more. There are some more fun promotions in store too. Social videos have been produced for the promotion of Learn WordPress. Here is an example, the team would like to encourage contributions in other languages.  They’re also exploring how to support older audiences to use WordPress through the resources on Learn WordPress. Any hands to help with this? 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.” @nalini 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/..
  • @annezazu worked to redo the core feature projects page. Project owners where contacted for the latest status, description/intro paragraphs where updated, core editor items where added, and inactive projects where hidden to make the page more focused.

Next Dev Chat Meeting

The next meetings will take place on Wednesday, December 23rd 2020, 05:00 UTC and Wednesday, December 23rd 2020, 20:00UTC 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. 

#props to @thelmachido for consolidating both sets of notes together prior to publishing.

#5-7, #summary

Dee Teal 12:10 am on December 16, 2020
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WordPress 5.6 ‘Simone’ Retrospective

Having fully celebrated the release of 5.6, but before turning focus our to 5.7 it would be so helpful to this and future squads, if all those involved in contributing could take a moment to share their thoughts about the process of the release.

Taking the pulse in the form of a retrospective will help uncover things that the WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. team find valuable to keep doing in future releases because they were a positive experience and moved the project forward in the way we need. It will also help identify areas that were not helpful in fulfilling our goals or were not positive for people participating. So we value all feedback to help us continue to iterate.

To participate in this retro, please take a few moments to fill in this form. It is not anonymous, but your email address will not be kept or used for any other purpose than to discourage trolling.

Thank you one and all for your contribution to this release, and thanks in advance for taking the time to help make future releases even better. Expect the consolidated results to be published early in 2021.

If you prefer, here’s a link to the form embedded below.

(Props to @audrasjb for copy edit suggestions).

#5-6, #retrospective

Josepha 10:46 pm on December 15, 2020
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Regular Office and Listening Hours

Over the past few years @matt and I have hosted office hours from time to time. It helps us learn more about the contributors and community members that show up to sustain and maintain the project, and I’d like to make the effort to host them on a more regular basis.

In 2021, Matt and I are offering quarterly office hours together! If you would like to grab some time with us, please sign up with Calendly. A Zoom link will be added to your calendar invite after booking. The time slots are short—just 15 minutes—so that we can get the chance to chat with as many of you as possible!

The first round is in January, and we’ll take stock at the end of the year to decide if we want to keep them.

#office-hours

Dee Teal 10:14 am on December 15, 2020
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Dev Chat Agenda: 16th December 2020

Here is the #agenda for this week’s meetings happening at:
Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 0500UTC and Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 2000UTC .

The #dev-chat meetings will be held on Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 05:00UTC and Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 2000UTC. These meetings are held in the #core channel. To join the meeting, you’ll need an account on the Making WordPress Slack .

#5-7, #agenda

Jb Audras 9:57 am on December 15, 2020
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A Week in Core – December 14, 2020

Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between December 7 and December 14, 2020.

  • 13 commits
  • 20 contributors
  • 120 tickets created
  • 10 tickets reopened
  • 102 tickets closed

This week our main news is of course that WordPress 5.6 «Simone» was smoothly released! ♥️

Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. numbers based on the Trac timeline for the period above. The following is a summary of commits, organized by component.

Code changes

App Passwords

  • Ensure redirection description is shown on mobile devices – #51970
  • Store the “in use” option in the main networknetwork (versus site, blog) options – #51939

Build/Test Tools

  • Enable reporting of results to WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ – #50401
  • Build/Test Tools: Remove the Appveyor configuration file – #51968

Bundled themes

  • Twenty Twenty-One: Bring back PostCSS config – #52040
  • Twenty Twenty-One: Correct the DocBlockdocblock (phpdoc, xref, inline docs) for map-deep-set() Sass function – #52064
  • Twenty Twenty-One: Use a more specific link for Dark Mode instructions – #52010
  • Twenty Twenty-One: Fix typos in some inline comments – #52042
  • Twenty Nineteen: Add images for use in 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. patterns – #51996
  • Twenty Twenty-One: Use esc_url() for the WordPress.org link in footer.php – #51954
  • Twenty Twenty-One: Use consistent HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. comments after closing HTML tags – #51950Docs: Document the usage of $wpdb global in WP_Query::get_posts() and ::set_found_posts() – #52027
  • Bundled Themes: Bump theme versions ahead of WordPress 5.6 – #51919

Props

Thanks to everyone who contributed to WordPress Core on Trac last week:

@mukesh27 (4), @poena (3), @t-p (1), @spacedmonkey (1), @arcangelini (1), @SergeyBiryukov (1), @aristath (1), @sabernhardt (1), @dkarfa (1), @hareesh-pillai (1), @peterwilsoncc (1), @ayeshrajans (1), @dd32 (1), @mikeschroder (1), @jontyravi (1), @transl8or (1), @tanvirul (1), @justinahinon (1), @engahmeds3ed (1) and @audrasjb (1).

Core committers: @sergeybiryukov (7), @ryelle (2), @desrosj (2) and @timothyblynjacobs (2).

#week-in-core

Paal Joachim Romdahl 10:04 pm on December 14, 2020
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Editor Chat Agenda: 16 December, 2020

Facilitator and notetaker: @paaljoachim.

This is the agenda for the weekly editor chat scheduled for 2020-12-16 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/..

  • 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/ 9.5.2. (Gutenberg release 9.6 is delayed until next week.)
  • WordPress 5.6 released
  • Monthly Plan for December 2020 and key project updates. With focus on issues, what is being done and help that is needed.
    • Full Site Editing.
    • Global Styles.
    • 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.
  • 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

Francesca Marano 4:12 pm on December 12, 2020
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A year of (subtle) changes

On December 4, 2019, I published a post with a recap of the feedback received for the WordPress 5.3 retrospective. It included a list of “Next Steps”. This post aims to check what was done and what wasn’t.

Done

  • Continue with the release squad model.
  • Mentorship model: focus leads of 5.3 help 5.4 and so on.
  • Make an open call for volunteers. Team reps and previous release leads can nominate people that:
    • Are willing to take part in this.
    • Are a good fit.
  • Add a Design Focus Lead.
  • Add another Documentation Focus Lead to ensure a timely publication of Dev Notesdev note Each important change in WordPress Core is documented in a developers note, (usually called dev note). Good dev notes generally include: a description of the change; the decision that led to this change a description of how developers are supposed to work with that change. Dev notes are published on Make/Core blog during the beta phase of WordPress release cycle. Publishing dev notes is particularly important when plugin/theme authors and WordPress developers need to be aware of those changes.In general, all dev notes are compiled into a Field Guide at the beginning of the release candidate phase. and Field GuideField guide The field guide is a type of blogpost published on Make/Core during the release candidate phase of the WordPress release cycle. The field guide generally lists all the dev notes published during the beta cycle. This guide is linked in the about page of the corresponding version of WordPress, in the release post and in the HelpHub version page. and facilitate the addition of a “docs-updating” stage.
  • Add a Test Focus Lead.
  • A private channel for the release team. It provides the new focus leads a safe space to learn and ask questions that they might feel intimidated by asking in the CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. channel. No decisions are made in the channel.
  • Continue using a sticky post to announce 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 and publish in advance the list of bugs that will be tackled.
  • Triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. team
  • Avoid introducing new technologies without a prior discussion and/or updating external libraries close to 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.

Work In Progress

  • Write a description for each role involved.
  • Add some tasks to the release coordinator role:
    • 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.” component maintainers and core committers at the beginning of the cycle and every few months to ensure there is a clear picture of availability
    • Ping active component maintainers weekly to give a status report. This could be done in two steps: automated post on the Core blogblog (versus network, site) followed by ad hoc pinging in case of no reply.
    • Office Hours to facilitate cross-team collaboration
  • Rethink the roles of the release to give better credit. Define roles (are they even needed beyond the squad?) and be generous with props.
  • Publish the agenda for the dev chats 24 hours prior to the chat with a more structured model.
  • Call for tickets and component focuses
  • Recap of the above with reasoning behind the decisions taken regarding the features that will be considered
  • Propose schedule, scope, and focus leads at the beginning of the release cycle and publish all the milestones.
  • Communicate the release to a wider audience – Marketing Team
  • Increase the release cadence – Release Model Working group (dormant)

Not addressed

  • Reviewing and updating the release cycle documentation
  • Creation of a TrelloTrello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. board for birds-eye project management

Next step

Focusing on the low hanging fruits proved to be a good idea, and in fact the above report shows that the smaller the tasks were, the easier they were achived.

I will ping people that are somehow involved with the “Work in Progress” and the “Not addressed” tasks to check what can be done to move them forward or close them.

Thank you all!

#retrospective

Jorge Costa 11:24 pm on December 11, 2020
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Editor chat summary: Wednesday, 9 December 2020

This post summarizes the weekly editor chat meeting on Wednesday, 9 December 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/ 9.5.1

We had a minor releaseMinor Release A set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality. to fix three bugs. The details of the fixes can be checked in the release page.

WordPress 5.6

WordPress 5.6 was recently released, more details can be found here.

The release contains several enhancements to the editor. @isabel_brison made an overview post with the changes https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/12/03/wordpress-5-6-core-editor-overview/.

Besides the editor enhancements, the 2021 theme is also a big step. It will have an equivalent 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. version that will test how robust is FSE and Global Styles to allow third-party themes.

@youknowriad said: Nice work @isabel_brison and others leading the editor side of the release. And the message was well supported on the chat using 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/. reactions. Thank you for all the work made leading the editor side of this release @isabel_brison!!


Monthly Plan and key project updates.

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. and 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

Widgets and customizer screen are still continuing with explorations going on to find the best way to add blocks support in customizer. 

Global Styles

We merged an update that makes client preset metadata match the server. ” – https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/27453. And now we are also not passing some metadata to the client like selectors https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/27449.
The work to make 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. translatable continues.
We are making some changes, namely removing some presets we are not totally convinced yet they should exist.
We already have some traction on the work to enhance our components to allow a better UXUX User experience on Global Styles; @q proposed the addition of some utils.
We also have some progress on the Global Styles extensibility with some filters being proposed https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/27509.

Full site editing

The Query block now inherits the global query so FSE themes can add a query block in the index or archive templates and it will work for all archives, properly getting the query context from the visitor’s URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/27128.

Template-parts now have a UIUI User interface to select the HTMLHTML HyperText Markup Language. The semantic scripting language primarily used for outputting content in web browsers. element that will be used for their wrapper: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/27101 so they can define easier if it’s, etc.

The inserter was also improved and behaves as popover. The editor now has an outline mode used in both Site Editor and Template mode.

Native Mobile APP Updates

  • File block merged and usable.
  • Post’s Save dialog fixes.
  • Background and text color support in Group, Paragraph and Quote blocks
  • Use new link picker in various blocks: Button, Image, Gallery
  • Improvements on Separator block style
  • E2E tests execution improvement.
  • Release process documentation improvements.

An app release is going to be skipped because of New Year’s and people taking holidays on these days.

Task Coordination

@annezazu

Helped a bit with 5.6 Q&A docs, light GH triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors., continued working with @noisysocks on updating the features page and updating the issue templates, worked on FSE program preparation (including adding a welcome bot there and digging into current/recently merged PRs!), and dug in a bit to block directory adoption. Plans to do much of the same in the week ahead!.

@itsjonq

Continued the efforts of improving the Component System for Gutenberg.
The latest update is a (draft) pull-request to bring in the UI libraries/systems Has been working on (aka. “G2 Components”) https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/27594. @itsjonq gave a thank you to @youknowriad and @gziolo for thoughts/guidance on integration.
@itsjonq said that t’s just the beginning, but it’s looking very promising. As always, @itsjonq tries Livestream design/dev updates on Twitch several times a week.
@itsjonq is also posting weekly updates on the project blogblog (versus network, site):
https://g2components.wordpress.com/.

@paaljoachim

Design triaged Bigger font for various handbooks.
Worked on several documentation tasks namely: Improving the intro page of the Block Editor Handbook and Re-examining introduction tutorials.

@youknowriad

Has been on working on some follow-ups to the addition of the “template mode” in the post editor.
The idea is that as we add features and enhancements, the code base becomes more complex as we take shortcuts so it’s important to circle back and “clean” the code a bit. Has been doing that with some 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) hooksHooks In WordPress theme and development, hooks are functions that can be applied to an action or a Filter in WordPress. Actions are functions performed when a certain event occurs in WordPress. Filters allow you to modify certain functions. Arguments used to hook both filters and actions look the same., extracting common components and removing unnecessary complexity. Still has a few follow-ups planned. Some refactorings and some more features.

@jorgefilipecosta

Worked on an update that makes client preset metadata match the server. And another one that makes sure we are not passing some metadata to the client like selectors.
Did multiple reviews on Global Styles related work.
Proposed a solution to remove some of the presets we have being back-compatible with markup that uses them.
For the next week, plans on helping the effort to improve our WordPress components with PR reviews comments, feedback, etc. Wants to merge the Gutenberg side of theme.json i18ni18n Internationalization, or the act of writing and preparing code to be fully translatable into other languages. Also see localization. Often written with a lowercase i so it is not confused with a lowercase L or the numeral 1. Often an acquired skill. and iterate and merge the typography presets removal. Also plans on making some progress on the design tooling visibility issue.

@cguntur

Would like to help with the Gutenberg documentation.

@aristath

For next week his main focus will be splitting core block assets loading and revisit progressive loading for FSE.
Would also love it if we could focus on removing auto-drafts for theme-provided templates but that one is a bit tricky as it touches lots of things.

Open floor

@bph bring to the attention of the participants of the chat an issue/question https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/27321. @youknowriad shared some guesses of what may be the cause of the issue and @ntsekouras offered to followup and share his findings on the issue.

Skipping coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. editor chats of 23rd and 30th December

@paaljoachim share the following in the agenda:

I suggest that we skip having a Core Editor meeting the 23rd and 30th December as many will be having their Christmas holiday

People discussed this suggestion, there was no opposition to this suggestion so participants of the chat decided to skip the chats of 23rd and 30th December.

Starting the FSE Outreach Program

@annezazu said the following:

After digging into some recent FSE related PRs and talking with a few people, I wanted to raise the idea of starting the #fse-outreach-experiment after the next Gutenberg release. I think this PR from @youknowriad on a template editing mode is a great place to start but wanted to hear thoughts. Right now though, there aren’t a ton of things lined up to do next. I think this will be okay though as it’ll give an extended period of time for people to test (might be good with this time of year) and it’ll make it easier to tweak what we’re doing after this first round. How does that sound to you all? P.S. I welcome people flagging possible additional things to run through for the group. I try my best to stay on top of things but definitely miss stuff.

@youknowriad shared he agrees that the template editing mode is a good flow to test. He believe the feature in itself is still a little bit rough around the edges but testable.

@annezazu supported riad’s thoughts and concluded that she will get to work fleshing out the details to kick off the program. She welcomes any collaborators who might be interested!

For anyone reading this summary, you can be a part of the program by joining #fse-outreach-experiment channel.

One week RC period

@youknowriad said:

The last releases saw a couple bugs being introduced and to address that I’d like us to discuss the possibility to try a one week RC in Gutenberg 9.6.

The participants of the chat showed support for this idea. The plan is to start having a one week RC period. The next release will still follow the normal schedule, so we give more time of notice to allow publishing the notes of the meeting (this post), and we have a fuller release otherwise it would be just a one-week release which would be very small.

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

Jb Audras 10:23 pm on December 11, 2020
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Call for Volunteers – Early bug scrubs for WordPress 5.7

In preparation for WordPress 5.7, tentatively scheduled for a March 9th, 2021 release, it would be beneficial to start running weekly 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 around the tickets flagged as early.

Tickets marked with the early workflow keyword are a priority and should be committed as soon as possible in the release cycle. Indeed, tickets that are committed early can be tested during the alpha cycle, and other tickets may depend on them to be committed.

Alpha has been open for business since November 17th, so there are already some tickets in the report.

Who?

Leading a Bug Scrub is something any interested community member can do! Please comment below if you’re interested in running one bug scrub or two 🙂

When?

To make sure we have at least some dates in the books, Let’s schedule two sessions on the same day, to allow for maximum participation across the globe.

If more scrubs are going to be needed before we formally kick-off the cycle, they will be added along the way.

Call for volunteers

If you are interested, please pick a date and a time and say it in the comments. Thank you.

#5-7, #bug-scrub