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This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / November 22, 2017 at 21:00 UTC: 4.9 feedback + 4.9.1 planning Request for devchat lead next week General announcements If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to the above, please leave a comment below. See you there!…

Office Hours Recap The agenda for this office hours meeting was to discuss adopting 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. as a way to manage status, progress, and ownership on tasks, as well as…

This recap is a summary of our previous PHPPHP The web scripting language in which WordPress is primarily architected. WordPress requires PHP 7.4 or higher meeting. It highlights the ideas and decisions which came up during that meeting, both as a means of documenting and to provide a quick overview for those who were unable…

This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from November 15th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.9 schedule + release timing 4.9 release was delayed from yesterday (Tuesday, November 14th) to today (Wednesday, November 15th) An updated 4.9 build went out earlier today, we still have to rebuild tinymce.min.js, but otherwise please test! @afercia disagrees with patching last minute serious…

As with the other team meetings of late, this week brings a new time for 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”…

This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / November 15, 2017 at 21:00 UTC: 4.9 schedule + release timing General announcements If you have anything to propose to add to the agenda or specific items related to the above, please leave a comment below. See you there! #4-9, #agenda, #core, #dev-chat

As noted in the 4.9 release delay post, a final nightly build is now available for testing. This includes three commits, so please take a look through those and test as you can (see #42548, #42530, and #42545). We hope to ship WordPress 4.9 on Wednesday, November 15th (that’s tomorrow) at 23:00 UTC, but we still need your help…

The 4.9 release was due out today (November 14th), however issues with shortcodes within widgets (#42548) and changes to the Editor (#42530) occurred during release preparations. The new target release date is tomorrow (November 15th). It doesn’t serve anybody well to delay things this late in the day, but it’s essential to ensure the late fixes…

Office Hours Recap The agenda for this office hours meeting was open floor. The meeting’s chat log Attendees: @florian-tiar, @spacedmonkey, @desrosj, @flixos90, @mikelking, @jeremyfelt Chat Summary: There was a loose discussion on the tickets that should be focused on at the beginning of the 5.0 cycle. Caching in WP_Site_Query will be a big focus at first.…

In response to feedback collected during and after last week’s JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com chat,…