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  • Dev Chat Agenda for July 26th (4.8.1 week 6)

    This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / July 26, 2017 at 20:00 UTC: 4.8.1 RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). feedback & release timing Editor / GutenbergGutenberg The…

  • New Contributors Meeting Recap – July 19

    Last week’s New Contributors Meeting was held on . Once again, there were lots of great questions asked in the #core channel. Read the full chat archive here. Discussion Highlights: General tips on getting tickets reviewed Attend chats for the open floor portion to ask for help/reviews on tickets. Use the dev-feedback keyword to get noticed. What…

  • Dev Chat Summary: July 19th (4.8.1 week 5)

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from July 19th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.8.1 schedule Access to Mission Control was lacking and delayed 4.8.1 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…

  • PHP Meeting Recap – July 17th

    This recap is a summary of the second weekly 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…

  • Dev Chat Agenda for July 19th (4.8.1 week 5)

    This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on / July 19, 2017 at 20:00 UTC: 4.8.1 timing 4.8.1 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,…

  • Multisite Recap for the week of July 17th

    Office Hours Recap The agenda for this office hours meeting was to review the current state of the 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,…

  • New Contributors Meeting Recap – July 12

    This week’s New Contributors Meeting was held on . Once again, there were lots of great questions asked in the #core channel. Read the full chat archive here. Discussion Highlights: There was a general conversation about who should be making changes to tickets and if new contributors were “allowed” to do so. The answer, of course, is…

  • Multisite Agenda for the week of July 17th

    Office Hours Agenda This is the agenda for the weekly office hours meeting on in #core-multisite. Review the current state of the 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…

  • Multisite Recap for the week of July 10th

    Office Hours Recap The agenda for this office hours meeting included a discussion around the introducing a wp_blogmeta table and related *_site_meta() functions to store arbitrary data for sites, particularly as a means to extend the future sites REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that…

  • 4.8.1 Bug Scrubs (part deux)

    The following bug scrubs have been scheduled on tickets milestoned for 4.8.1 and the conversation will take place in #core: / Monday, July 17th 15:00 UTC / Thursday, July 20th 16:00 UTC Reminder of the timeline for 4.8.1 is BetaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial…